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MANNING, Samuel:
Swiss pictures, drawn with pen and pencil. A new and enlarged edition.
London, Religious Tract Society, n.d. (ca. 1880) in-4to, Frontispice in color : Dog on the St. Bernard + 210 p., illustrated with many woodcuts, original green cloth decorated with gilt ‘nature scene’, gilt edges. first joint slightly split, else a fine copy.
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Edition with a map. Richly illustrated with engravings, town and village views, landscapes, mountains, mountaineering, glaciers, costumes, animals, railways, etc. The engraving ‘Fishing by Torchlight on the Swiss Lake (p.112, handcoloured). For this new edition much fresh material has been introduced and more than of thirty new illustrations have been added, a large proportion by Swiss artists. They will be found worthy to take their place alongside together with those by Mr. Whymper, which have been so greatly admired in the earlier editions. Perret 2805; Not in Waeber BSL III nor in Lonchamp. Bild
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Harteveld Rare Books Ltd.
M. Ben Harteveld
rue des Alpes, 5
1700 Fribourg
Switzerland
41 (0)26 3223808
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Swiss pictures, drawn with pen and pencil. With ill. by Mr. Whymper, and others. A new and enlarged edition.
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.
Probably third edition, without the preface. 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 color illustrations. Perret 2805; Not in Waeber BSL III nor in Lonchamp. Image disp.
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