Luzern. (Businger, Josef Maria)
Luzern und seine Umgebungen. Rigi, St. Gotthard und Pilatus, nebst einer kleinen Reiseanleitung durch die Kantone Ury [Uri], Schwyz und Unterwalden. Neue Umarbeitung des früheren Werkes: Die Stadt Luzern und ihre Umgebungen.
Luzern, Verlag von Xaver Meyer [1833].
Small 8vo. pp. 198. 3 plates, each with 3 fine stone lithograph vignettes, 1 fine frontispiece view and 1 large map. printed boards. - Some light rubbing and wear to binding and toning to rear cover. Light intermittent age spotting.
Barth 19181, Wäber 256, Lonchamp 511a. Fine and rare travel guide to Lucerne, much updated from its predecessor of twenty years earlier and with completely new illustrations. With the full complement of sought after plates.
The lithographed plates show the following views: collegiate church, arsenal, town hall, Lucerne from the Kapellbrücke, Lucerne from the Reussbrücke, Jesuit college, Bürgerspital zum Hl. Geist, orphanage, Sentespital. The frontispiece view and panorama are drawn by J. Schwegler and lithographed by Bernhard Eglin. The engraved map of Lake Lucerne was drawn by August Schmid and engraved by H. Scheurmann.
