Title: Dictionnaire géographique, statistique et historique du canton de Vaud, avec carte et planches; Par Louis Levade, docteur en médecine de l’Université de Leyde, membre de la Société Helvétique des Sciences Naturelles [...]
Description: <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;"><b>Full title:</b> Dictionnaire géographique, statistique et historique du canton de Vaud, avec carte et planches; Par Louis Levade, docteur en médecine de l’Université de Leyde, membre de la Société Helvétique des Sciences Naturelles, de celle pour l’Utilité Générale de la Suisse, et de plusieurs autres sociétés de gens de lettres.</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;"><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;"> 4to. pp. [4], 448, [4]. Early boards. Contains a plate of an inscription and tables, some folded. Small institutional library stamp on title and final page (“Stadtbibliothek Thun”), elimination stamp of “Stadt- und Universitätsbibliothek Bern,” bookmark and ownership inscription of Charles de Steiger.</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;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><font face="Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:15.3333px;">First edition of this work on Helvetian epigraphy, history, statistics and geography. Does not contain the atlas. Levade mentions the forged epitaph of the legendary Helvetian heroine Julia Alpinula, the daughter of a leader of an Helvetian uprising against the Romans, who died soon after her attempt to save her father’s life. Julia Alpinula’s story was in fact a humanist hoax based on a fabricated inscription by Paulus Merula. It also reprints six lines of French verse from a pre-Byronic paraphrase of the Latin inscription by ‘Le Doyen’ Philippe Sirice Bridel – an early admirer and adapter of ‘Ossian’ – taken from his poem ‘Berthold de Zaeringue’ (in his 1793 ‘Mélanges helvétiques des années 1791, 1792, 1793,’ pp. 527-35). Levade also reported that the inscription had been transported to England. See A. Freeman, Julia Alpinula, pseudo-Heroine of Helvetia. How a Forged Renaissance Epitaph Fostered a National Myth. London, 2015, p. 6, note 9; 29.</span></font><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/alma991042158889707861" rel="nofollow">Click here to view the Johns Hopkins University catalog record.</a></span></span></p>