[Rarebooks] FS: Exceptional Hand-Colored Copy of Beattie's SWITZERLAND, 1836

[Charles Agvent]

BEATTIE, William. SWITZERLAND. ILLUSTRATED IN A SERIES OF VIEWS TAKEN ON 
THE SPOT AND EXPRESSLY FOR THIS WORK BY W. H. BARTLETT. London: George 
Virtue, 1836. First Edition. Two quarto (8-1/4" x 10-3/4") volumes bound 
in one in publisher's elaborately gilt-decorated black morocco leather 
with a handsome gilt-decorated and lettered morocco leather spine, all 
edges gilt. Illustrated with 2 engraved title pages and 106 
steel-engraved plates after Bartlett, all delicately hand-colored, as 
well as a folding lithograph map of Switzerland. Plates and text appear 
to have been washed resulting in bright, clean pages. Beautifully 
colored and bound in absolutely Fine condition. (#018944) $2,500.00

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