65. Longman, William. A Lecture on Switzerland. Printed for Private Circulation, July 1857.
£450
First edition. 8vo. pp. viii, 94; very good in the original cloth, gilt. A presentation copy, inscribed to half-title “From the Author”.
Wäber I.85; Meckly 115; Perret 2683. Longman (1813-1877), of the publishing house Longmans, was a founding member of the Alpine Club and its president in 1871-4. “This rare privately printed pamphlet deals primarily with glaciers and their motion but also discusses Chamonix and the ascent of Mont Blanc” (Meckly).
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66. [Lory, Mathias-Gabriel, and C. H. Monvert.] Picturesque Tour through the Oberland in the Canton of Berne, in Switzerland. London: Published at R. Ackermann’s Repository of Arts, 1823.
£3,750
First separate edition. Imperial 8vo. pp. viii, 120; one engraved map, 17 hand-coloured aquatint plates; minor spotting, else a nice clean copy in modern crushed full morocco by Bayntun (Rivière), gilt-decorated spine, contrasting lettering piece, t.e.g.
Wäber 135; Abbey Travel 57; Tooley 26; not in other bibliographies or the Alpine Club Library Catalogue (1982), but cf. Perret 2697 for the Paris edition. Mathias-Gabriel Lory (1784-1846), like his father, achieved great renown as an artist of Alpine subjects. His works are difficult to find in any edition, though the original on which the present work was based - Voyage pittoresque dans l’Oberland bernois (Paris, 1822) - has become particularly scarce. The Picturesque Tour was originally published in Ackermann’s Repository of Arts (vols. XI to XIII, parts 61 to 75, 1821-2). The illustrations in this edition include scenes in and about Thun, Unterseen, Interlaken, and excellent views of the glaciers of Grindelwald and Roselouvi, and of the Jungfrau (reference being made in the text to the 1812 ascent by the Meyer brothers. See item 73).
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