La Suisse: Etudes et Voyages, a Travers les 22 Cantons (Premiere Partie et Deuxieme Partie)

Paris: Librairie Hachette et Cie, 1879, 1880. Hardcover. 2 volumes. Dark green leather with small gilt embossed decoration on front and raised bands on spine. Decorative endpapers with gilt. All edges gilt. 714 pp + 722pp. 750 bw woodcuts. Oversize. Good+ (gift inscription on title pages. ex-library with expected marks. additionally, title pages are marked with a perforation stamp. leather on boards is scuffed and worn, most acutely at edges, and leather is completly worn through at some corners. vol 1: half title and ffeps have long closed tear and are taped with archival tape. light soiling to pg 126-127. cover at rear hinge is separated but board is still attached to binding by the cloth inside. strip of leather missing at base of spine. some creased page corners. vol 2: patch of leather is missing from front bottom corner, with a nearby bump to board on bottom edge). Item #133704

Two volume set describing Switzerland, profusely illustrated with great woodcuts, mostly landscapes and townscapes, but also with portraits, historical scenes, or depictions of contemporary citizens of a locale engaged in work or other activities. Vol 1: Geneve, Vaud, Valais, Berne, Unterwalden, Lucerne, Zoug, Schwytz, Uri. Vol 2: Uri, Tessin, Grisons, Glaris, Saint-Gall, Appenzell, Thurgovie, Schaffhouse, Zurich, Argovie, Bale, Soleure, Fribourg, Neuchatel.

Price: $168.00

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