Lot 503
Cole, Eliza Robinson: A lady's tour round Monte Rosa. London 1859.
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€ 200
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€ 140
Lot:
503
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Geography and work of views
Cole, Eliza Robinson: A lady's tour round Monte Rosa with visits to the Italian valleys of Anzasca, Mastalone, Camasco, Sesia, Lys, Challant, Aosta, and Cogne in a series of excursions in the years 1850-56-58. London: Longman, Brown, Green and Roberts 1859. 19,1 x 11,9 cm. With a frontispiece, 3 further chromolithographs and 1 coloured title vignette, 8 woodcuts in the text, 1 folded map. X, 402 pp. Green half-leather with spine label.
(The spine is discoloured. The card is loose.)
The first English-language guidebook to this mountain range written by a woman.
(The spine is discoloured. The card is loose.)
The first English-language guidebook to this mountain range written by a woman.