Title: Der Geschichten schweizerischer Eidgenossenschaft. Vierter Theil. Bis auf die Zeiten des Burgundischen Kriege. Durch Johannes von Müller
Description: <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;">Fourth of 5 vols. in 8vo. pp. XVI, 774. Calf. Bookplate of Emile Scherer.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;">The ‘Julia Alpinula’ story appears in the rare first issue of the first volume, which carries the false imprint (to evade censorship) ‘Winterthur, bey Steiner und Compagnie, 1786’. The second volume is from 1786 as well, the third from 1788, the fourth from 1805, and the fifth from 1808. See A. Freeman, Julia Alpinula, pseudo-Heroine of Helvetia. How a Forged Renaissance Epitaph Fostered a National Myth. London, 2015, p. 4. 5, 9, 15, 16, 20.</span><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="https://catalyst.library.jhu.edu/permalink/01JHU_INST/1lu78g9/alma991042155749707861" rel="nofollow">Click here to view the Johns Hopkins University catalog record.</a></span></span></p>