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MANNING, Samuel:
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.
London, (William Clowes for) Religious Tract Society, n.d. (ca. 1882), 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.
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Richly illustrated with engravings, town and village views, landscapes, mountains, mounteneering, glaciers, costumes, animals, railways, etc. Perret 2805. (first ed. 1866).
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Harteveld Rare Books Ltd.
M. Ben Harteveld
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41 (0)26 3223808
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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.
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. Perret 2805. (first ed. 1866); Wäber BSL. S. 94 (éd. orig. 1870, new edition 1881), image disp.
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