[Rarebooks] FS: Superior Copy of Brockedon's PASSES OF THE ALPS with lovely steel engravings, 1829

[Charles Agvent]

BROCKEDON, William. ILLUSTRATIONS OF THE PASSES OF THE ALPS, BY WHICH 
ITALY COMMUNICATES WITH FRANCE, SWITZERLAND, AND GERMANY. London: 
Printed for the author, 1828 - 1829. First Edition. Two large quarto 
(8-1/2" x 11-1/2") volumes bound in contemporary half brown morocco 
leather and marbled boards with morocco corners, lettered in gilt on the 
spines, signed A. Macomie. Illustrated with 96 fine steel-engraved 
plates with tissue guards and 13 engraved maps including one folding. 
Brockedon describes in words, images, and maps 12 mountain passes 
including The Little St. Bernard; The Mont Genevre, The Mont Cenis, The 
Mont St. Gothard, The Great St. Bernard, The Stelvio, The Cornice, The 
Grimsel and the Gries, The Bernardin and The Splugen, The Brenner, The 
Tendre and The Argentiere, and The Simplon. Minimal foxing, slight 
darkening to the very edges of the plates, but a very clean, superior 
copy. Bindings with just light wear. Near Fine.

Brockedon traversed the Alps 58 times, crossing more than 40 different 
passes, in the course of his researches. (#017297) $1,500.00

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