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Simplon Road

LORY, J. & J. (= Gabriel Ludwig & Mathias Gabriel) & Frederic SCHOBERL.
Picturesque Tour from Geneva to Milan, by way of the Simplon: Illustrated with thirty six coloured views of the most striking scenes and of the principal works belonging to the new road constructed over that mountain, and accompanied with particulars historical and descriptive.

With engraved frontispiece-map of the Simplon Road, and 36 fine engraved coloured aquatint views, one repeated and two mounted, repeated from another copy, all after designs by J. and J. Lory.

With engraved frontispiece-map of the Simplon Road, and 36 fine engraved coloured aquatint views, one repeated and two mounted, repeated from another copy, all after designs by J. and J. Lory.

With engraved frontispiece-map of the Simplon Road, and 36 fine engraved coloured aquatint views, one repeated and two mounted, repeated from another copy, all after designs by J. and J. Lory.

With engraved frontispiece-map of the Simplon Road, and 36 fine engraved coloured aquatint views, one repeated and two mounted, repeated from another copy, all after designs by J. and J. Lory.

With engraved frontispiece-map of the Simplon Road, and 36 fine engraved coloured aquatint views, one repeated and two mounted, repeated from another copy, all after designs by J. and J. Lory.



London, R. Ackermann, 1820. 4to. Original half black morocco. With engraved frontispiece-map of the Simplon Road, and 36 fine engraved coloured aquatint views, one repeated and two mounted, repeated from another copy, all after designs by J. and J. Lory. (8), 135, (2) pp.

Very rare but rather used and incomplete copy, lacking at least two of the plates, replaced by repetitions from another copy, of a beautiful aquatint travel book on the newly constructed road over the Simplon. The fine aquatint plates show views of Geneva, Sion, Brieg Simplon, Gondo, Crevola, the Lago Maggiore, Arona, Como, Milan, and several beautiful views of the Alps. At the end the publisher's catalogue, of 8 pp., bound with.

(Re-backed and binding restored; inside and  plates in good un-foxed condition).
Not in Abbey, Travel; NUC lists one copy.

Related Subjects: 19th Century  Italy  Switzerland  Travel & Voyages 

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