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‎Mountains and lakes of Switzerland and Italy. Sixty-four picturesque views after drawings taken from original sketches by C. Pyne. With descriptive notes by ....‎

‎London, Bell and Daldy, (printed by Strangeways and Walden), 1871, in-4°, 3 ll. (half-title, title and dedication leaf) + 130 p. illustrated with 64 chromo-lithographs (by M. & N. Hanhart after drawings excecuted by Frederick Jones) + 1 folded map ‘Switzerland & North Italy, some light stains, ex libris Peter E. Obergfell, orig. illustrated green cloth with gilt ornaments on spine and first cover, gilt edges, some light wear on spine and corners.‎

‎Beautifully illustrated chromo-lithografic travel book through picturesque Switzerland and the Italyan Alps. From Basel towards the St. Gothard, then to Bellinzona, Italy, returning to the Grison, through the Rhine Valley to Ragatz , the splendour of the Rhine-Falls, the Bernese Oberland, Rhone Valley, Simplon Route, Valais with a nice view of the Cervin and Zermatt and at the end ‘From Visp to Chamouni’ with a view of ‘Mont Blanc from Chamouni’ and ‘On the Tête Noire’ the voyage ends in Geneva. Wäber BSL III/94; de Beer, Travellers in Switzerland p. 338; Not in Priuly & Verlucca (Mont-Blanc); Aliprandi & Gattlen, il Cervino e le sue stampe. p. 132-133; ‎