1836 La Suisse Pittoresque, Ornee de Vues Dessinees Specialement Pour cet Ouvrage

Description

Fine Binding, First Edition, Folding Maps, Illustrated, Leather Binding

The first edition thus of this work, the first edition in French.

In a beautiful and fine binding.

Complete in two volumes.

Volume I illustrated with an engraved title page, and fifty-six plates.

Volume II illustrated with an engraved title page, one folding map, and forty-eight plates.

Collated, complete.

A beautiful work describing picturesque scenes in Switzerland, illuminated with engraved plates. 

A detailed look into Switzerland in the first half of the nineteenth century.

Illustrated by William Henry Bartlett, a British artist. Bartlett is best known today for his steel engravings.

Described by William Beattie, a Scottish physician and poet.