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. (ca. 1881, in-4°, frontispice color plate with a picture of the famous dog Barry with text: 'On the St. Bernard' + 210 p., with numerous xylographic illustrations of which 26 full-page and 1 chromolithogr. plate (on p. 190:) Mont Blanc from above Morges (foxed mainly in the margins and opposite page), ex libris Peter E. Obergfell, original blue cloth decorated with gilt eagle and chamois and framed with black decorative lines, gilt edges, nice copy. ¶ Richly illustrated with engravings, town and village views, landscapes, mountains, mounteneering, 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).

Keywords: travel, exploration voyage Switzerland Suisse-Gé mountain, mountains montagne Alps Alpes illustrations, illustrations, illustrated illustré Whymper, E.