Basel, Lithographie zum Gemsberg, 1936. Small folio (23.1 x 16.4 cm). Title page 12 fine chromolithographed plates. Original red blind quarter cloth over full colour pictorial boards.

A curious item with intriguing images of birds, by the Swiss artist Henriëtta Paula Häberlin née Baruch (1882-1968). In 1902-1903 Häberlin studied art and painting in Düsseldorf, under Wilhelm-Schneider Didam and Willy Spatz, and, subsequently, at the Munich Art School of the Artists’ Society lead by Christian Landenberger, Heinrich Knirr and Angelo Jank. She travelled to Italy, Yugoslavia, the Netherlands, Brittany and Mallorca before settling near Basel and, from 1914, Bern. From 1906 onwards her work was shown at exhibitions in, for instance, Zurich, Basel, Munich, and Baden-Baden. She was married to the Swiss psychologist and philosopher Paul Häberlin (1878-1960). Binding and plates in fine condition. DBE 2(4), p. 324.