Asti, Franceso Pila, 1780, in-4to, text on 2 col., 1 engraved portrait in frontispiece + XVI, with title in red and black + 268 S., light marginal staining in places, two small library stamps on title page ,Bibl. Caritas du Simplon’ & ,Bibl. du St.-Bernard’, hw. note on verso of front. ‘Ex dono ... Bibliotheca Sti Bernardi Montis jovis 1788’ / Exlibris Peter E. Obergfell, leather binding, gold tooled spine and title label.
Life of S. Bernardo di Menthon (923-1008), founder of the famous "Hospice de Saint Bernard" in the Alps on the Swiss Italian border. The second part contains reflexions on the life of the much honored Saint, patron of the inhabitants of the Alps, and of the alpinists. Fine copy Buchberger, Lex Th.K. II/205-206; Oettinger -. Image disp.
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