Stumpf, Johannes. [Gemeiner loblicher Eydgnoschafft Stetten, Landen und Völckeren Chronick wirdiger thaaten beschreybung]. 13 parts in 1 volume. With 5 double-page and 8 folio-sized woodcut maps as well as ca. 4000 text and armorial woodcuts. [Zurich, Ch. Froschauer, 1548]. Folio. [4 (instead of 5)] vols., 332 vols., [10] vols. (d.l.w.), 467 pp., [10] pp. Blind embossed pigskin of the period over wooden boards (heavily stained, rubbed and scuffed, bumped at capitals and edges and with small losses to covers, clasps removed). VD16 S 9864 - BM STC German 839 - Vischer C 396 - Barth 10216 - Haller IV, 396 - Lonchamp 2819 - Feller/B. p. 180 ff. - Leemann-van Elck, Froschauer p. 106ff. - First edition of the most important printed Swiss chronicle of the 16th century with the magnificent woodcuts by Hans Asper, Heinrich Vogtherr, Rudolf and Johann Wyssenbach and others - "With this chronicle, the series of printed works on Swiss history reaches its climax; it is characterised by a hitherto unprecedented wealth of high-quality pictorial decoration. It even surpasses the famous world chronicle by Hartmann Schedel, published in Nuremberg in 1493. Around 4000 illustrations adorn this monumental work, although, as was customary at the time, the same sticks were often used [...]; the abundance of illustrations is overwhelming" (L.-v. E.). - Without the title page. - First quire including map of Europe loose, with heavy marginal tears and creases, the map with loss and loss of image in centrefold. The other maps mostly with old backed marginal defects, some with small image losses. One index leaf to the first volume almost completely removed, leaf 77 in the second part with tear in the lower half and larger loss of text. Some browning throughout, dampstaining and fingerstaining in the margins, a few marginal tears. - Despite the described defects, overall still a good copy of this monumental work.