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Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. original gilt and blindstamped leather hardcover, illustrated, 360 pages, lacks "presentation plate" as usual, all other plates present as called for, one plate loose, names to rear for frontispiece otherwise very good. We are a real bookshop with real books situated in and shipping from the United Kingdom. Shelf B272.

Hardcover. Zustand: Poor. No Jacket. 6th Edition. Hardback. Important account of the Battle of Leipzig. 6th Edition 1814. 104pp., two coloured folding maps at front. Inscribed and dated February 4th 1814. Binding shaken and front board weak. Marbled boards in need of recovering. Still a good working copy of an early printing.

Original paper boards. Zustand: Near Fine. John Martin (illustrator). 1st Edition. 422 pages inc 4 pages of publishers adverts at rear + 14 copper engraved plates, the frontispiece is a steel engraving after John Martin "Marcus Curtius" and others, each with tissue guards, still in the original lime green printed paper boards and in similar card slip case with paste down titles on front and back boards, some foxing and handling, so darker than the covers of the book, but still very good, stub of silk bookmark. AEG (all edges gilt), original endpapers, two plates loose, but all good and some light foxing in places. A near fine example of this "yearly" publication for the females of good backgrounds. Small octavo. *Many female writers have contributed inc, Agnes Strickland, Emma Roberts, Felicia Hemans, Mrs Pickersgill, Mrs Bray, Mrs Henry Rolls, Mary Russell Mitford an other writers inc, Barry Cornwall, Charles Swain, John Clare, W. H. Harrison, Mrs Hofland, Charles Brinsley Sheridan, etc. Prose, tales and poetry.

4°, gestochenes Frontispiz (Karte «Plan of the Road of the Simplon. Constructed by the French between 1800 & 1807»), 3 Bl. Vorw., 1 Bl. Tafelverz., 136 S., 36 handkolorierte Taf. in Aquatinta, Priv.-HLdr. d. Zt. m. gold. Rückenpräg., Rundum-Marmorschnitt, Rückenkanten berieben, Kapitale u. Deckelkanten tlw. beschabt, Exlibris a. Innendeckel, Karte. u. Titelbl. stockfl., selten etw. finger- u. stockfl., einige Taf. m. braunem Abklatsch; gutes Ex. EA. Prächtige Tafeln nach Zeichnungen von G. Lory sen. und jun. zu der «connected Tour from Geneva through the Valais, over the new roard constructed by command of the late ruler of France across the SImplon, to Lago Maggiore, and by the Lake of Como to Milan».Tafeln: 1.) Lake of Geneva / 2.) Banks of the Lake of Geneva near St. Gingoulp / 3.) Extremity of the Lake near Boveret / 4.) The Bridge of St. Maurice / 5.) Waterfall of Pissevache / 6.) West View of Sion / 7.) East View of Sion / 8.) Brieg / 9.) Gallery and Bridge of the Ganther / 10.) View on quitting the Gallery of Schalbet / 11.) Gallery of Schalbet from the Italian Side / 12.) Gallery of the Glaciers / 13.) Monastery of the Simplon / 14.) Village of Simplon / 15.) View of the Gallery of Algaby / 16.) View from the Gallery of Algaby / 17.) Ponto Alto, or Alto Bridge / 18.) New Road near the Grand Gallery / 19.) Interior of the Grand Gallery / 20.) End of the Grand Gallery towards Italy / 21.) View near Gondo / 22.) Gallery of Isella or Issel / 23.) Entrance of the Valley of Dovedro / 24.) Bridge of Cherasca / 25.) Entrance of the Gallery of Crevola / 26.) Bridge of Crevola and Vally of Domo d?Ossola / 27.) The Bridge of Crevola / 28.) Villa / 29.) The Bridge of Baveno and Isola Madre / 30.) Lago Maggiore and Boromean Islands / 31.) Isola Bella or the Beautiful Island / 32.) Isola Bella taken from Stresa / 33.) Arona / 34.) Sesto / 35.) Pliniana and Lake of Como / 36.) Milan. 1100 gr. Schlagworte: Helvetica - Allgemein, Reisen - vor 1900.

4 Bl., 136 S. Text, 1 Bl., 1 gestochene Karte und 36 hand-kolorierte Ansichten / Aquatinta-Tafeln (vollständig), Bindung angebrochen (Seiten teils aus der Bindung gelöst), die Tafeln in guter und sauberer Erhaltung, teils leicht fleckig im Randbereich, Fotos / Bilder gerne auf Anfrage, Text in Englisch, Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 820 Gr.-8°., einfacher privater späterer Einband (dieser fleckig und optisch wenig ansprechend),

In 16°; piena percallina edit. con ricche impressioni in oro ai piatti e al dorso, tagli dorati (lievissime abrasioni marginali); pp. 354-(6 pubbl. edit.); frontespizio inciso, antiporta e 8 tavv. f.t protette da veline, come da indice. Ottimo esemplare.

Hardcover. Zustand: Befriedigend. XVIII S., 2 Bl., 146 S.; 184 S. Mit 32 altkolorierten Kupfertafeln in Punktiermanier. Kl.-8°. Pappeinband der Zeit (etwas berieben, stellenw. leicht fleckig; innen gut erhalten). Tooley, English Books with Coloured Plates, 555. Mit altem Exlibris. Schöne Darstellungen von Menschentypen und Trachten, darunter Mann und Frau aus dem Gailtal, Frauen aus Krain, Istrien, Gottschee usw. Standardwerk zur Volkskunde der Alpen-Adria Region.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very good+ condition. First Edition. x, 422 pages of text including four pages of publisher's advertisement. Original green paper-covered boards have minor shelfwear, with the rear exterior hinge showing wear. The inner front hinge is beginning to crack. The original protective cardboard sleeve remains intact, though heavily worn and with old archival tape repairs. The embossed dedication leaf on colored paper is hinged on the back of the frontispiece. The frontispiece was reattached discretely with a thin strip of tape. Dedicated on the front endpaper to "Sophia N. Henning from her brother on her birthday 25th November 1828." Her brother also affixed a cut-out hand-colored replica of a flattened moth on the dedication leaf, magnifying James Montgomery poem within, titled "Epitaph on a Gnat, found crushed on the Leaf of a Lady's Album." Front and rear endpapers with pencil notations. Illustrated with a total of 14 black-and-white engravings. Edited by Frederic Schoberl. Contributers include: H. Corbould; John Martin; Louisa Sharpe; Abraham Cooper; William Daniell; Francis Philip Stephanoff; Samuel Owen; Alfred Edward Chalon; Samuel Prout; Henry Thomson; William Frederick Witherington; Luke Clennell; Charles Robert Leslie; Samuel Mitan; Henry Le Keux; John Samuel Agar; Henry Chawner Shenton; Samuel Davenport; Edward Francis Finden; E. J. Portbury; Robert Wallis; Francis Engleheart; William Humphrys; Alfred Robert Freebairn; W. Finden; John Romney; Joseph Goodyear. First edition. Size: 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Book.

5 Bll., 136 S. Lederband der Zeit. 26 : 19 cm. * Tooly S. 446. - Bruun III, 279. - Erste englische Ausgabe des schönen Ansichtenwerkes mit prachtvoll kolorierten Aquatinta-Tafeln. Mit Ansichten von Genf, Genfer See (2), Sion, Brig, Simplon sowie auf italienischer Seite Arona, Mailand, Sesto, Villa und Lago Maggiore. Ohne die Tafel "View of the Gallery of Algaby". - Etw. fleckig. Einband restauriert, Rücken erneuert, vorderes Gelenk innen gebrochen.

FIRST EDITION. 4to. (28 x 19 cm). Title; Preface, 3 leaves; List of Plates, 1 leaf; pp. 1-136. Later half chocolate-brown morocco over marbled boards, spine with raised bands and gilt in compartments, complementary gilt-lettered red and green morocco labels, renewed endpapers, edges uncut. Engraved map frontispiece "Plan of the Road of the Simplon" and 36 aquatinted plates with original hand-colouring all bearing Ackermann's imprint dated 1820 except for the "Bridge of Crevola".* Minor offsetting from the plates, generally and excellent copy. Frederic Schoberl (1775-1853) was an English journalist, writer, illustrator, translator, editor, who was long associated with Ackermann's Repository of Arts, one of the foremost Regency periodicals. The Picturesque Tour comprises a "connected tour from Geneva through the Valais, over the new road constructed by command of the late ruler of France across the Simplon, to Lake Maggiore, and by the Lake of Como to Milan". Schoberl writes in the preface that "[I]t would be difficult, perhaps impossible, to select another tract of equal extent, in which [one] would find such diversity of scenery, embracing all that is wild, awful and sublime in the polar regions of everlasting ice and snow; all that is beautiful, picturesque and magnificent in the mountains, forests and waters of more temperate regions; and all that is soft, sweet and enchanting in the warmer skies, the kindlier breezes and the more luxuriant nature of southern Europe". The Simplon Pass had become the dominant route through the Alps after Napoleon had a road constructed in 1801-1805 to facilitate the movement of artillery through the mountains, thereby laying the route by which English tourists would later travel to Italy. The literary significance of the region in this period is significant; it is on the banks of Lake Geneva in 1816, for instance, that Lord Byron (quoted on p. 21), Mary Shelley, and Percy Bysshe Shelley had their infamous competition to write the best ghost story, from which the idea for Mary Shelley's Frankenstein was born. The illustrators, Gabriel and Mathias Gabriel Lory, were prominent Swiss landscape painters, whose talents, Schoberl assures the reader, "will be a sufficient pledge for the accuracy and fidelity of the views contained in this volume" (Preface). Views include Geneva, Sion, Brieg, Simplon, Algaby, Lake Maggiore, Gondo, Isola Bella, Crevola, Sesto, Lake Como, and Milan. *According to Tooley, "[C]are should be taken to see that all the plates are dated 1820 as the book was issued later.with the title still dated 1820 but the plates of later dates, and the impressions of these later issues are considerably inferior to the originals" (Tooley, 359). However we have located another copy at York University in which the same plate is also lacking a date. (Tooley, 446).

Hardcover. Zustand: Very good. First. First edition in book form. London: Published by R. Ackermann, 1820. Quarto (10 7/8" x 7 5/8", 276mm x 196mm). [Full collation available.] With an engraved map (H. Frost) and 36 hand-colored aquatint plates (dated 1820; watermarks 1819-1820). Eight-page publisher's catalogue (251mm x 147mm) bound in at rear. Bound in the publisher's blue drab boards, backed with red roan (rebacked). On the spine, five panels separated by double gilt fillets. Gilt round fleuron in the panels. Title gilt to the second panel. Rebacked. Boards bumped, with some wear at the edges. Closed tears to the upper and lower edges of the rear board. Mild, even tanning to the text-block. Some offsetting from the plates. Initial engraved map foxed. Engraved armorial bookplate of Godfrey Wright, A.M. (by W. West) on the front paste-down. Frederic(k) S(c)hoberl (1775-1853) was long associated with Ackermann's Repository of Arts, one of the foremost Regency periodicals (and in which, from 1818-1820, the Tour first appeared). There was little Schoberl did not do; he wrote and edited, translated and illustrated. In the present work (the first edition, Voyage Pittoresque, Paris: 1811, features the illustrations of the Lorys but not Schoberl's text) he contributes to the growing aesthetic category of the Picturesque, which stands in distinction to the Sublime. The Alps join these two categories. The Simplon Pass had become the dominant route through the Alps after Napoleon had a road constructed 1801-1805 to facilitate the movement of artillery. English tourists in particular would travel to Italy "via post," using stage-coaches. The journey took them through Sion and Brigg, Lake Maggiore (with its stunning Isola Bella), Lake Como and finally Milan. The literary import of the region in this period is unparalleled: it is on the banks of Lake Geneva (the start of the journey) that Lord Byron (whom Schoberl quotes, e.g., p. 21), Mary and Percy Bysshe Shelley gathered in 1815; this summit (well, valley) brought forth Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. The illustrators, Gabriel and Mathias Gabriel Lory (also known as Gabriel the Elder and Younger; how this became "J. and J." is unclear), were prominent Swiss landscape painters. Father and son traveled to Neuchâtel to produce their views of the newly-opened Simplon route. The dating of the plates by their imprints and watermarks is crucial, since, as Tooley notes, "the impressions of these later issues are considerably inferior to the originals." Godfrey Wright (ca. 1781-ca. 1862) was admitted as a pensioner to Trinity College, Cambridge (B.A. 1804, M.A. 1807). He lived at Bilham House in Hooton Pagnell, South Yorkshire in his latter years, describing himself in the census as a "clergyman without cure of souls." Tooley 446.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. 1st Edition. First edition, a good copy in contemporary half calf won and scuffed. With 26 of the 28 plates only, missing 'The Bridge of St. Maurice' and 'Interior of the Grand Gallery', but in our view retaining all of the best plates. The hand coloured plates are mostly sound, a couple with a short closed tear to the margin.

First edition. Quarto. pp [viii], 136, [2] List of Plates. 36 hand-coloured aquatint plates; frontispiece map. Period binding of full black morocco with elaborate decoration in gilt and blind, all edges gilt.Traces of bookplate removed from front pastedown. A spot or two of light foxing here and there, not affecting the plates. Covers a bit rubbed at the edges. Very good indeed. The plates are all in fine state.

in-4to, frontispice (map) ?Plan of the road? + title + 4 leaves: ?Preface, List of plates? + 136 p. + 36 handcoloured aquatinta-plates. Untrimmed copy in an original publisher?s light-brown clothbound, spine richly gilt, covers blindstamped. Housed in a clothbox with green morocco-leather spine with gilt title and year 1820. A perfect copy in bright colouring in which 2 new plates, here published for the first time, were added (compared with the 1811 ed. by Didot or the 1819 new ed. by Guillaume Haas): N° 35 View of Pliniana & N° 36 View of Milan. The plate n° 2 (of the 1811 ed.) has been cancelled.Very fine & rare early English edition in delightful colouring. Engraved map ?Plan of the road of the Simplon? bound as frontispice, signed H. Frost sculp. & 36 plates signed ?Ackermann? with descriptive texts as follows:1) Lake of Geneva / 2) Banks of the Lake of Geneva near St. Gingoulph / 3) Extremity of the Lake. near Boveret / 4) The Bridge of St. Maurice / 5) Waterfall of Pissevache / 6) West View of Sion / 7) East View of Sion / 8) Brieg / 9) Gallery and Bridge of the Ganther / 10) View on quitting the Gallery of Schalbet / 11) Gallery of Schalbet from the Italian Side / 12) Gallery of the Glaciers / 13) Monastery of the Simplon / 14) Village of Simplon / 15) View of the Gallery of Algaby / 16) View from the Gallery of Algaby / 17) Ponto Alto, or Alto Bridge / 18) New Road near the Grand Gallery / 19) Interior of the Grand Gallery / 20) End of the Grand Gallery towards Italy / 21) View near Gondo / 22) Gallery of Isella or Issel / 23) Entrance of the Valley of Dovedro / 24) Bridge of Cherasca / 25) Entrance of the Gallery of Crevola / 26) Bridge of Crevola and Vally of Domo d?Ossola / 27) The Bridge of Crevola / 28) Villa / 29) The Bridge of Baveno and Isola Madre / 30) Lago Maggiore and Borromean Islands / 31) Isola Bella or the Beautiful Island / 32) Isola Bella taken from Stresa / 33) Arona / 34) Sesto / 35) Pliniana and Lake of Como / 36) Milan.Blindgeprägter rot-brauner orig. Leineneinband d. Verlages, Rücken mit Titel und vergoldeten Ornamenten.Die sehr schönen Tafeln zeigen die Ansichten der ?Voyage pittoresque de Genève à Milan par le Simplon? (Paris, 1811) der beiden Lory. Unsere Ausgabe unterscheidet sich von der andren, französischen - vom Format und Sprache einmal abgesehen, - dadurch, dass die Tafel ?Les eaux d?Amphion? (Mandach 173) ersetzt wurde durch die Ansichten von ?Pliniana? und ?Mailand?, die hier neu hinzukamen (Mandach 207 und 208).Please notify before visiting to see a book. Prices are excl. VAT/TVA (only Switzerland) & postage. Gattlen S. 67, Nr. 389; Wäber BSL III/213; Lonchamp 1850; Perret 2694; Mandach ?Bibliographie Lory? N° 172 und 174-208; Perret - Regards sur les Alpes, page 117. Notice 34.

Zustand: Very Good. First Edition. Imperial 8vo. 11 by 8 inches, 29 by 20 cm. [8], 136, [2], 8 pp. Plus 36 hand-colored aquatint plates, and tinted frontis map. Includes useful publisher's eight page catalog. One of the most beautiful of plate books, capturing some dramatic and treacherous scenery. Views include Sion, Lake Geneva, Brieg, Bridge at Ganther, Algaby, Ponte Alto, waterfall at Pissevache, bridge at St. Maurice, Lake Maggiore, Arona, Sesto, Milan, Lake Como, etc. Tooley 446, which notes that the work was issued later with title still dated 1820, but that is manifestly not the case here since plates are dated 1819 and 1820 and the publisher's quarter leather binding is consistent with the first issue as thus. (Some plates were issued earlier in Ackermann's Repository.) The publication itself should be seen as a product of the building appreciation of Alpine and Swiss scenery, once scorned, that began in the 1700s, and in particular British fascination with it. Custom clamshell case. Some offsetting from plates, including from frontis to title. Soiling of frontis in margins especially. Clamshell box has a few loose seams along joints and other minor wear. Plates have watermarks from 1819 and 1820. Quarter Morocco over Cloth Boards, with Custom Cloth Clamshell Case.

Hardcover. 1st Edition. 4to., (11 x 7 4/8 inches). 8-page publisher's catalogue at end. Engraved frontispiece map by H. Frost (lightly browned and offset onto title-page as usual). 36 EXCEPTIONALLY FINE hand-coloured aquatint views after J. and J. Lory. Original red morocco backed boards (rebacked to style, corners bumped and scuffed). Provenance: with the engraved armorial bookplate of Godfrey Wright on the front paste-down. First edition in English, an early issue with plates dated 1820 and those with discernable watermarks dated 1819 or 1820. These spectacularly beautiful plates are of views along celebrated route from Geneva to Milan, and include images of Geneva, Sion, Brieg, Simplon, Algaby, Lake Maggiore, Gondo, Isola Bella, Crevola, Sesto, Lake Como, and Milan. Lonchamp 1850; Tooley 446. Catalogued by Kate Hunter.

Cm. 27, pp. (8) 136 + (2) con l'indice delle tavole. Una carta geografica all'antiporta e 36 belle tavole fuori testo all acquatinta con coloritura coeva. Solida legatura ottocentesca in mezza pelle con ampie punte, dorso liscio con titoli in oro. Sguardie marmorizzate. Esemplare pulito ed in ottimo stato di conservazione. Celebre opera che illustra il percorso alpino tra Ginevra e Milano. Molto affascinanti le vedute che riguardano il Monte Rosa, il Sempione e i suoi ponti, Crevola, Val d Ossola, Villa d Ossola, Baveno, il Lago Maggiore, Arona, Sesto. ecc. Edizione celebrata da tutte le bibliografie alpine, di viaggio e di storia locale del norditalia. Cfr. almeno Fiammetta Olschki (viaggi in Italia) n. 608. Non comune, soprattutto quando completa di tutte le tavole e ben conservato come il presente esemplare.

Hardcover. 1st Edition. 4to., (10 x 7 inches). Without publisher's catalogue at end. Engraved frontispiece map by H. Frost (lightly browned and offset onto title-page as usual). 36 hand-coloured aquatint views after J. and J. Lory. Modern half green morocco gilt, top edges gilt. Provenance: With the leather library labels of William Foyle (1885-1963), bookseller, on the front paste-down, his sale 12th July 2000. First edition in English, later issue with only 20 plates dated 1820, and two of those watermarked 1825, three plates dates 1826 and others either undated, or dated variously 1823-1825. These spectacularly beautiful plates are of views along celebrated route from Geneva to Milan, and include images of Geneva, Sion, Brieg, Simplon, Algaby, Lake Maggiore, Gondo, Isola Bella, Crevola, Sesto, Lake Como, and Milan. Lonchamp 1850; Tooley 446. From the distinguished library of William Foyle.

In 16°; cart. edit. verdina figurata ai piatti e al dorso, tagli dorati, astuccio; pp. XI-(1)-416-(4 pubbl. edit.); frontespizio inciso a rilievo, antiporta e 12 tavv. f.t protette da veline, come da indice. Nella carta di dedica iniziale, iscrizione di antico possessore e a fronte una piccola composizione in versi. Ottimo esemplare.

3pp., 12mo. 55 lines, neatly and closely written. Good, on lightly-aged paper. Addressed to 'Mr W. Shoberl.' An excellent letter, giving an experienced and knowledgable view of the state of the mid-Victorian British booktrade. Redding begins by stating that he is 'indeed concerned to hear the statement' Shoberl has communicated to him. He wishes it was in his power to forward Shoberl's wishes. 'The Downward tendency of our present literature and its continued deterioration by the utter disregard for any thing on the part of the public but that which any body may do, with the continual competition as to price among the booksellers, have utterly destroyed authorship. The American looks to costing nothing for copyright, reprinted here as of English authorship reduce the chances of obtaining employment very low indeed. I feel the times too much myself not to sympathise with others. There is not a boarding school girl whose diatribes do not ascend in the market, better than those of an educated person who has had long experience. The prospect is gloomy enough', and Redding cannot help him. 'I have no business connections out of the old way, and so far from finding my present cause a prosperous one I look to the future with apprehension. My life with 50 years of adventures is nearly ready, but I almost despair of doing any thing with it, though I have records of so many well known characters to display.' Redding remembers Shoberl's father well, 'and when you speak of friends gone off the stage of existence I can assure you I feel the same'. In the final paragraph he again expresses a desire to assist Shoberl if he can, and he expresses a hope 'that things may soon take a turn' with him. Shoberl did gain employment in the book trade, first as assistant to the London publisher Henry Colburn, and then as a publisher in his own right.

GLDr., [3]+354+(Verlagsanzeigen) 6 Seiten, kl.-8°, mit 11 Bildtafeln im Text. Schöner Einband mit reichverzierter Ornamentalgoldprägung auf beiden Deckeln und Rücken; vergoldeter Schnitt. Kupfern mit Seidenpapier versehen. Exemplar minimal- berieben, bestoßen und gelockert. Manche Tafeln leicht stockig. Titelblatt recto und verso nach Besitzerstempel mit Pappschildchen überklebt, sonst sehr guter Zustand. Book Language/s: English.

Zustand: Near Fine. First edition. First edition of Frederic Schoberl's illustrated ethnography series. Complete in 43 sextodecimo volumes. Rebound in red cloth over quarter brown morocco titled in gilt, red ribbon markers. Complete with 2 maps and 646 handcolored engraved plates, most depicting the world's inhabitants in their national costumes. Near Fine with very light wear to covers and light toning and scattered foxing to contents. The following volumes are overall clean and bright: Africa: 4 volumes containing 2 maps and 45 color plates. England: 4 volumes containing 82 plates (81 called for by Tooley plus one extra frontispiece to Volume III). Illyria and Dalmatia: 2 volumes containing 32 plates. Japan: 1 volume containing 20 colored plates. The Netherlands: 1 volume containing 18 color plates. Russian Empire: 4 volumes containing 72 plates. Spain and Portugal: 2 volumes containing 27 plates. Switzerland: 1 volume containing 18 plates. Turkey: 6 volumes containing 73 color plates. The following volumes have light foxing and condition issues as noted: Asiatic Islands and New Holland: 2 volumes containing 26 color plates; creasing and short tear to plate 18. Austria: 2 volumes containing 32 color plates. China: 2 volumes containing 30 plates, faint offsetting from ribbon marker to plate 27. Hindoostan: 6 volumes containing 103 plates; 1-1/2 inch split to foldline of plate 13, full split to plate 38 foldline partly repaired with tape to verso, 1 inch split to pg. 57 foldline. Persia: 3 volumes containing 30 plates. South Sea Islands: 2 volumes containing 26 plates, of which one is relief. Tibet: 1 volume containing 12 plates. The English writer and illustrator Frederic Schoberl spent the better part of a decade on The World in Miniature, meticulously recording information from many sources and creating hundreds of drawings for the pocket-sized book series. The text describes the customs, manners, costumes, and industries of societies around the world. That world is viewed through a very English lens, with little attempt at objectivity. England herself occupies four volumes, the Indian subcontinent in which she was so interested occupies six, and South America whose sole British colony was British Guiana is overlooked entirely. Nonetheless, the series was an important introduction to other cultures for readers at the time, and the exquisite color plates still delight today. Complete sets are rare.

First separate English edition. This beautifully illustrated book was first issued as Voyage Pittoresque de Genève à Milan par le Simplon (1811) and then by Ackermann from 1818 to 1820 in his monthly magazine, the Repository of Arts. The Simplon Road was still a relatively new construction, built between 1801 and 1805 on the orders of Napoleon to facilitate the transport of artillery between the Rhône valley and Italy. Following the Napoleonic Wars, it opened up new vistas to tourists, enabling them to admire the fashionably "picturesque" qualities of the scenery, exemplified in the present series of views by the celebrated Swiss landscape artists Gabriel Lory the Elder and his son Mathias Gabriel; the latter is describing the Simplon Pass as "grand et terrible" and "comparing its effect on the imagination to Pergolesi's Stabat Mater and Haydn's Creation" (cited in Bevis, p. 140). The views include scenes of Geneva, Sion, Brieg, Simplon, Algaby, Lake Maggiore, Gondo, Isola Bella, Crevola, Sesto, Lake Como, and Milan. The text was supplied by Frederic Schoberl, who had a long association with the publisher Rudolph Ackermann, described as "the great presiding genius, before whose magic wand so many pictorial books sprang into existence" (Hardie, p. 96). Not in Abbey; Prideaux, pp. 351 and 377; Tooley 446. Richard Bevis, The Road to Egdon Heath: The Aesthetics of the Great in Nature, 1999; Martin Hardie, English Coloured Books, 1906. Quarto (262 x 175 mm). With 36 hand-coloured aquatint plates (Whatman watermarks dated 1819 and 1820), engraved map by H. Frost, tissue guards. Contemporary dark blue half calf, spine with 4 low raised bands, each decorated with a gilt triple fillet closed by foliate finials, gilt-lettered direct, other compartments with gilt foliate motif enclosed by a frame of paired gilt fillets and scrolling foliate tools, sides and corners trimmed with a blind decorative roll, marbled sides, endpapers, and edges. Binding just a little rubbed, small old repair to front cover, light bumps to a couple of corners, plate facing p. 78 lacking tissue guard. A very good copy.

In-8°, legatura ottocentesca in mezza pelle e punte con titoli e filetti in oro al dorso a cinque nervi, pp. (12)136(2). Completo delle 36 magnifiche tavole fuori testo incise all'acquatinta e colorate a mano all'epoca, e della carta in antiporta. Ottimo esemplare di questa prima edizione inglese.

in-4 (mm. 290x200), pp. 136 + 36, leg. m. pelle rossa (tipo marocchino) coeva con tit. oro al d., suddiviso in 6 scomparti. Con 36 magnifiche tavv. finemente inc. all'acquatinta e colorate a mano. Con una carta topografica in antip. raff. il tragitto del viaggio descritto. Le tavv. rappresentano vedute delle seguenti località svizzere e italiane, tra cui: Gondo, Dovedro, Cherasca, Crevola, Domodossola, Villa, Baveno, Isole Borromee, Isola Bella, Stresa, Arona, Sesto, Villa Pliniana, Milano. Bell'esempl. in barbe con piccoliss. dif. alla cuffia inf. (stanca), senza perdita di materiale.

Ilustrated with Twenty-Seven Coloured Engravings. London, Printed for R. Ackermann, (1825), 1ª edición, 2 vols.,10x15 I: X-303 páginas. 11 grabados. II: 2 hojas, 281 páginas, 16 grabados. Los grabados al cobre (puntillado) están coloreados de época y representan trajes regionales de España y Portugal. Muy bien encuadernados (encuadernación firmada por Morrell) en holandesa con la lomera y puntas en piel chagrín granate, lomera con 5 nervios y ruedas doradas, año impreso en oro en la parte inferior. (58802).