VILLENEUVE (Louis Jules Frédéric) and ENGELMANN (Godefroy). Views of Switzerland. Paris, G. Engelmann, 1823-1832. In-folio, midnight blue half-maroquin binding, smooth spine decorated (period binding). Collection of plates from the first edition of Lettres sur la Suisse accompanied by views drawn from life & lithographed by Villeneuve. First part: Bernese Oberland (1823), 24 plates. Second part: Ancien Évêché de Bâle (1824), 16 plates. Third part: Lake of the Four Cantons (1826), 24 plates. Part four: Lake Geneva, Chamouny and the Valais (1827), 24 plates. Part five: The Simplon route (1832), 24 plates. Complete with 112 hors-texte plates drawn by Villeneuve and lithographed in black by Engelmann, but without title pages and text. Scattered foxing. Important album on Switzerland, mainly the Alps, including the Chamonix valley in Savoy. Louis Jules Frédéric Villeneuve (Paris 1796 - 1842), who drew the views, was a pupil of Regnault. He also contributed to Nodier's France pittoresque, and published numerous views of Italy. Godefroy Engelmann (Mulhouse 1788 - 1839) was also a pupil of Regnault; he introduced lithography to France in 1816, and was at the origin of the chromolithography process which he perfected with his son Godefroy II in 1837. Perret [3933] - Regards sur les Alpes n°44 - Waeber I, 60 - Barth 17641 - Brunet V, 1241 - Coolidge 102