Ouresiphoites Helviticus, sive itinera Alpina tria. In quibus incolæ, animalia, plantæ, montium altitudines barometricæ, cœli & soli temperies, aquæ medicatæ, mineralia, metalla, lapides figurati, aliaque fossilia, & quicquid insuper in natura, artibus, & antiquitate, per Alpes Helviticas & Rhæticas, rarum sit, & notatu dignum, exponitur, & iconibus illustratur / authore Johanne Jacobo Scheuchzero.

  • Scheuchzer, Johann Jakob, 1672-1733.
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1708
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Ouresiphoites Helviticus, sive itinera Alpina tria. In quibus incolæ, animalia, plantæ, montium altitudines barometricæ, cœli & soli temperies, aquæ medicatæ, mineralia, metalla, lapides figurati, aliaque fossilia, & quicquid insuper in natura, artibus, & antiquitate, per Alpes Helviticas & Rhæticas, rarum sit, & notatu dignum, exponitur, & iconibus illustratur / authore Johanne Jacobo Scheuchzero. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Londini : Impensis Hentici Clements ..., 1708.

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3 volumes in 1 (8 unnumbered pages, 57 pages, 1 unnumbered page, 1 unnumbered page, X leaves of plates; 4 unnumbered pages, 72 pages, XXI leaves of plates (1 folded); 4 unnumbered pages, 22 pages, 2 unnumbered pages, X leaves of plates (1 folded)) : frontispiece, illustrations, 1 portrait (engravings) ; (4to)

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Each part has separate engraved ("Perillustre Societati Regiae Londinensi ... [v. 3 Inclytae ...]") and printed ("Ouresiphoites Helviticus, sive, Itineris Alpini descriptio prima [-tertia] anno MDCCII [-MDCCIV]") t.p
Signatures: [A]2 B-H4 I2; [A]1 B-K4; [A]1 B-D4 (D4 blank)

References note

Nissen, C. Zoologische Buchillustration no. 3656
ESTC T153690

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