Author: MANNING, Samuel:
Title: Swiss pictures, drawn with pen and pencil. By the author of "Those Holy fields" ... etc. With ill. by Mr. Whymper, and others. New and enlarged edition.
Description: London, (William Clowes for) Religious Tract Society, n.d. (1881), in-4°, frontispice colorplate of the 'Mont Blanc from above Morges' + 208p., with numerous wood engraved illustrations of which 26 full-page, original blue cloth decorated with gilt eagle and chamois and framed in black decorative lines, gilt edges, fine copy. ¶ Copies bound in different colour, with different color plates: this is the one with 'Mont Blanc from above Morges' in color as a frontispice. Contents 'Eastern Switzerland and the Rhine, the Mont-Blanc Ddstrict with 16 illustrations / Western Switzerland with 32 ill., Rhone Valley, Vaud, Champéry, Val Ormont -... Le Léman, Lausanne, the Jura, NE, Richly illustrated with engravings, town and village views, landscapes, mountains, mountaineering, glaciers, costumes, animals, railways, etc. Please notify before visiting to see a book. Prices are excl. VAT/TVA (only Switzerland) & postage. Perret 2805. (first ed. 1866); Wäber BSL. S. 94 (éd. orig. 1870, new edition 1881),
Keywords: travel, exploration voyage Switzerland Suisse-Gé mountain, mountains montagne Alps Alpes illustrations, illustrations, illustrated illustré Alps alpes Whymper, E.
Title: Swiss pictures, drawn with pen and pencil. By the author of "Those Holy fields" ... etc. With ill. by Mr. Whymper, and others. New and enlarged edition.
Description: London, (William Clowes for) Religious Tract Society, n.d. (1881), in-4°, frontispice colorplate of the 'Mont Blanc from above Morges' + 208p., with numerous wood engraved illustrations of which 26 full-page, original blue cloth decorated with gilt eagle and chamois and framed in black decorative lines, gilt edges, fine copy. ¶ Copies bound in different colour, with different color plates: this is the one with 'Mont Blanc from above Morges' in color as a frontispice. Contents 'Eastern Switzerland and the Rhine, the Mont-Blanc Ddstrict with 16 illustrations / Western Switzerland with 32 ill., Rhone Valley, Vaud, Champéry, Val Ormont -... Le Léman, Lausanne, the Jura, NE, Richly illustrated with engravings, town and village views, landscapes, mountains, mountaineering, glaciers, costumes, animals, railways, etc. Please notify before visiting to see a book. Prices are excl. VAT/TVA (only Switzerland) & postage. Perret 2805. (first ed. 1866); Wäber BSL. S. 94 (éd. orig. 1870, new edition 1881),
Keywords: travel, exploration voyage Switzerland Suisse-Gé mountain, mountains montagne Alps Alpes illustrations, illustrations, illustrated illustré Alps alpes Whymper, E.
Price: CHF 150.00 = appr. US$ 148.83 Seller: Harteveld Rare Books Ltd.
- Book number: 117521
- Book number: 117521