Author: MANNING, Samuel:
Title: Swiss pictures, drawn with pen and pencil. A new Edition, revised and partly re-written. (Ed. by Samuel Green)
Description: London, Religious Tract Society, 1891, in-4to, frontispice ,the Jungfrau from Interlaken' + 216 p., illustrated with 167 (19 fullpage) woodcut illustrations after Edw. Whymper & 1 fold. map in color, some stains in the beginning and at the end, exlibris Peter E. Obergfell, original green cloth decorated with gilt 'nature scene with Matterhorn', gilt edges. ¶ Best illustrated edition with a map, town and village views, landscapes, mountains, mountaineering, glaciers, costumes, animals, railways, etc. For this new edition much fresh material has been introduced and more than thirty new illustrations have been added, fullpage views of Zürich and Basel, with the old ,Rheinbrücke'. Please notify before visiting to see a book. Prices are excl. VAT/TVA (only Switzerland) & postage. Perret 2805; Imhof 170.

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