SWITZERLAND. [Johann Rudolf WETTSTEIN (1594-1666)]. Manuscript, 18th c.; 19-page booklet, small in-4; in German. [Elected burgomaster of Basel in 1645, Johann Rudolf Wettstein (1594-1666) represented the Helvetic Confederation at the Congresses of Münster and Osnabrück, which led to the 1648 Peace of Westphalia, marking the end of the Thirty Years' War. An advocate of cantonal neutrality, he secured Switzerland's independence from the Holy Roman Empire]. Engraved frontispiece portrait of Wettstein by Heinrich Pfenninger. The manuscript consists of biographical articles about Wettstein, taken from various works: Acta und Handlungen, betreffend gemeiner Eydgnosschaft Exemption (Basel, 1651); Moser, Die Gerettete Voltige Souveraineté der Loblischen Schweitzerischen Eydgenossenschafft (Tübingen, 1731); Lauffer, Beschreibung Helvetischer Geschichte (Zürich, 1736-1739); May, Histoire militaire de la Suisse (Lausanne, 1788); Eine akademische Vorlesung (1789, with two chronological lists), etc. A small note in German on the Falkner family of Basel is enclosed.