Bye, Aegidius.

Bye, Aegidius.

Chronicon Helveticum. Or thorough description of the So Well in Salvation. Roman Empire as especially in Einer Lobl. Eydgnoss creates and beset places of preopened Merckwürste Begegnussen. Two vols. With double leaf gr. gest. Frontispiece from D. Herrliberger to B. Picart.
Basel, Bischoff, 1734-36. Folio. 4] pages, 682 p., [7] pages; 2] pages, 712 p., [4] pages

Pgt. d. Z. (browned and somewhat stained, scratched, corners slightly bruised
).
Lonchamp 304 - Haller IV, 401 - Feller/B. II, 476 - First edition, ed. by Johann Rudolf Iselin. Monumental edition of the Tschudi Chronicle, which remained unpublished for almost two hundred years. Iselin had great difficulties to overcome until he could compare Muri's copy with the original on Gräpplang. He did conscientious editing work, dispensing with his own examination of the chronicler in the form of a critical commentary. It is an important achievement in view of the many external obstacles, the censorship, the care of the publishers and the slowness of the printers, the amount of the expenses and the suspicious jealousies of all the guardians of the manuscripts [...] With this edition Iselin has created the prerequisites for Johannes Müller's historical and Friedrich Schiller's poetic work (F./B.). - With the gest. Frontispiece, which is often missing. - Title somewhat soiled, first sheet vol. 1 slightly damp-stained, but overall clean copy. - Age hs. Note of ownership on intent.
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