Nouveaux Voyages en Zigzag
18580007012Paris: Garnier Freres Libraires-Editeurs Rue des Saint-Peres 6 Palais Royal 215. Printed by Ad Mame et Cie in Tours 1858. 2nd Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. TOPFFER Rodolphe 1799-1846 SAINTE-BEUVE Charles Augustin 1804-1869 CALAME Alexandre 1810-1864. "Nouveaux Voyages en Zigzag." Paris: Garnier Freres Libraires-Editeurs Rue des Saint-Peres 6 Palais Royal 215. Printed by Ad Mame et Cie in Tours 1858. Second edition. Complete. French language. Quarto. 6 I-XVII 1 1-454. 478 pp. 10 1/2 x 6 1/3 inches. Contemporary red pebble-grained cloth richly gilt with four raised bands forming five compartments on spine gilt-lettered in second with gilt center-tool in rest gilt dentelles white moire-pattern endpapers all edges gilt. 48 engraved plates after Topffer and Calame engraved by Karl Girardet Français d'Aubigny de Bar Gagnet Forrest et al. With hundreds of in-text woodcut vignettes after Topffer. Topffer's charming travelogues through the Alps in which he guides caravans of his boarding-school students on foot thrum with illustrations of both Topffer's humorous caricatures and Calame's sublime mountainscapes. Here we have views of mountains glaciers valleys cities towns and scenes of European life all in a bucolic nineteenth-century mode that seems impossibly idyllic to the contemporary reader. This volume collects the following excursions: Voyage a la Grand Chartreuse 1833; Voyage autour du Mont Blanc 1842; and Voyages a Genes 1834; which go through: Seyssel Hautecombe Chambery Grenoble Martigny Col de Balme Col Ferret Sion Stalden Zermatt Matterhorn Interlaken Thun Bern Lausanne Annecy Lanslebourg Susa Rivoli Turin Asti Alessandria Genoa Oneglia Monaco Nice Gap and back to Grenoble. Second edition of this great classic of mountain literature and the Ideal sequel to 1844's "Voyages en Zigzag." References: ACL 314. Aliprandi "Il Cervino" 27-30. Angelini 2335. Beer "Travelers in Switzerland" p. 577. Brivois 405. Carteret III:588. Lonchamp 2926. Meckley 199. Menichelli 1556. Perret 4297. Sander 688. Vicaire VII:862. Weber 66. Paris: Garnier Freres, Libraires-Editeurs, Rue des Saint-Peres, 6, Palais Royal, 215. Printed by Ad Mame et Cie in Tours hardcover
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