SNOECK CHARLES ALEXANDER Promenade aux Alpes 1824

Sale 2075 - Lot 72

Price Realized: $ 920

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Estimate: $ 500 - $ 750

SNOECK, CHARLES-ALEXANDER. Promenade aux Alpes. 20 lithographed plates comprising hand-colored title, 6 hand-colored costume plates, and 13 uncolored views; one lithographed route map (of ?), partly hand-colored in outline. 4to, contemporary cloth, somewhat rubbed and discolored, rebacked; some light marginal foxing and dampstains on plates, few text leaves frayed along fore edge, clean tear across one text leaf repaired with cellotape. Np, 1824

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Scarce account of a three-month walking tour of the Swiss Alps by a Belgian traveller. On the rear endleaves are contemporary handwritten notes in French detailing distances from Ghent to Rome via various cities en route, and in Italian concerning an 1833 trip from Basel to Como.