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GB 249 T-GED/22/1 · Series · No date

Illustrations and photographs of individual towns, cities and regions in Switzerland.

This series is part of Patrick Geddes’ large collection of maps, plans, photographs, prints and drawings of countries and regions around the world. Much of this collection was part of Geddes' Cities and Town Planning Exhibition.

Geddes, Sir Patrick, 1854-1932, Knight, biologist, sociologist, educationist and town planner
Fribourg
GB 249 T-GED/22/1/1810 · Item · No date
Part of Switzerland: Individual towns, cities, regions, etc

Two reproductions of photographs of traditional buildings in Fribourg.

'Lichtdruck [ ... ] Martin Rommel & Co., Stuttgart'

Anon.

From 'Rudolf Hinderer. Alte Schweizer Bauweisen'.

Baden
GB 249 T-GED/22/1/1804 · Item · No date
Part of Switzerland: Individual towns, cities, regions, etc

'Badense oppidum vulgo Ober Badenn'

Copy of a sixteenth or seventeenth century city view.

Anon.

'Cities Exhibition No. 217 lent by Architects' War Committee [AWC crossed out]'

Basel
GB 249 T-GED/22/1/1805 · Item · No date
Part of Switzerland: Individual towns, cities, regions, etc

'Veduta della Citta di Bassilea nella Squicera'

Title repeated in German and French.

'Prospect von Basel' endorsed in top margin [reverted lettering]
'Augsburg by los. Carmine'

Johannes Carmine.

Sion (formerly Sitten)
GB 249 T-GED/22/1/1817 · Item · No date
Part of Switzerland: Individual towns, cities, regions, etc

'Sitten'
'Sedununc primaria et Metropolitica Valesiae urbs, Germanorum et Gallorum frequentatione celebris'

Copy of a 16th century city view.

Anon.

'No. 218' [Cities Exhibition] endorsed in manuscript in pencil in bottom left corner.

[Cities Exhibition.]

Zermatt
GB 249 T-GED/22/1/1819 · Item · No date
Part of Switzerland: Individual towns, cities, regions, etc

'Roches Polies Des Bords Du Glacier de Zermatt.'
'd'apres nat. et lith. par Bettannier.'
'lith de Nicolet a Neuchatel'

Hercule Nicolet after [ ] Bettannier.

'8.' endorsed in top margin.

Nicolet, Hercule, fl. 1840, lithographer
Berne
GB 249 T-GED/22/1/1808 · Item · No date
Part of Switzerland: Individual towns, cities, regions, etc

'Portail de la Cathédrale de Berne.'
'Bachmann del. et lith.'
'Paris, publié par A. Hauser, boul. des ltaliens, 11.'
'Imp. Lemercier à Paris'

'Le Moyen-Age Monumental et Archéologique Allemagne. Archit. Ogivale. Xve. Siècle' endorsed in top margin.

'A.B.' relief stamp in bottom margin.