London, (William Clowes for) Religious Tract Society, n.d., ca. 1880, in-4to, chromolithographic front ‘Mont-Blanc from above Morges’ + 206 p. incl.- title - contents) + 1 leaf with statistics & Chronology + 4 leaves with ill. publisher’s publicity, many xylographic illustrations (after drawings by Edw. Whymper) of which 24 full-page, + 2 large chromo-photogr. ‘Luzern’ & ‘Zürich’ added on white versos by a former owner, hw. name on first fly ‘John Vince’, original green cloth decorated with gilt eagle and chamois framed in decorative black lines, gilt edges, one corner bumped with some loss, in all still a nice copy.
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Probably third edition, without the preface. Richly illustrated with engravings, town and village views, landscapes, mountains, mounteneering, glaciers, costumes, animals, railways, etc. This title was an immense library success and went through several editions, all with slight differences of bindings, frontispices and color illustrations. Perret 2805; Not in Waeber BSL III nor in Lonchamp. Image disp.
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London, (William Clowes for) Religious Tract Society, n.d., ca. 1880, in-4°, chromolithographic front ‘the summit of the Aiguille Verte’ + 214 p. (recte 212 p., incl. front. - forword -contents -), with many xylographic illustrations (after drawings by Edw. Whymper) of which 24 full-page + 1 colorplate: ‘Mont-Blanc from above Morges’, original green cloth decorated with gilt eagle and chamois framed in decorative black lines, gilt edges, top of spine and along the joints a bit split, corners bumped, in all still a nice copy.
Probably the second edition, with a preface. Richly illustrated with engravings, town and village views, landscapes, mountains, mounteneering, glaciers, costumes, animals, railways, etc. For this new edition much new topics have been introduced and upwards of thirty new illustrations have been added a large proportion by Swiss artists they will be found worthy to take their place alongside those by Mr. Whymper, greatly admired in the earlier editions. Perret 2805; Not in Waeber BSL III; not in Lonchamp. Image disp.
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London, (William Clowes for) Religious Tract Society, n.d., ca. 1880, in-4°, frontispice in color ‘the summit of the Aiguille Verte’ + 214 p. (recte 212 p., incl. front. - preface - contents -), with many xylographic illustrations (after drawings by Edw. Whymper) of which 24 full-page with 2 chromolithographic plates, the frontispice & ‘Mont-Blanc from above Morges’ (p.195), , ex libris Peter E. Obergfell, original red/brown cloth decorated with gilt eagle and chamois framed in decorative black lines, gilt edges.
New (Third) edition, with a notice at the end of the preface ‘upwards to 30 new illustrations have been added, a large proportion by Swiss artists’. Front a bit loosening. Richly illustrated with engravings, town and village views, landscapes, mountains, mountaineering, glaciers, costumes, animals, railways, etc. This title was an immense library success and went through several editions, all with slight differences of bindings, frontispices and illustrations. Perret 2805; Not in Waeber BSL III nor in Lonchamp. Image disp.
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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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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.
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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