Nouveaux voyages en zigzag à la Grande Chartreuse, autour du Mont Blanc, dans les vallées d'Herenz, de Zermatt, au Grimsel, à Gênes et à la Corniche

Title: Nouveaux voyages en zigzag à la Grande Chartreuse, autour du Mont Blanc, dans les vallées d'Herenz, de Zermatt, au Grimsel, à Gênes et à la Corniche

Author: Töpffer, R. [Rodolphe]

Publication: Paris: Victor Lecou, libraire-éditeur, 1854.

Description: Travelogue by Swiss writer and illustrator Rodolphe Töpffer on his travels with students in the Alps and French Riviera. First edition, in publisher's "cartonnage romantique" binding. 48 black-and-white plates, plus numerous in-text engravings by Alexandre Calame and others after drawings by Töpffer. Bound in full black pictorial cloth stamped in red, blue, pink, green, and gilt, with yellow endpapers and all edges gilt, signed by Haarhaus and Liebherre. 11 x 7.5 inches; [4], XVII, [1], 454 pages, [48] leaves of plates. Annotations by former owners on front free endpaper and half-title. Moderate wear to the spine ends, joints starting, and some rubbing of the gilt; the interior with scattered spotting and light toning. Very Good. A generally clean copy in an attractive binding.