BARNARD (George). Switzerland: scenes and incidents of travel in the Bernese Oberland..., drawn from nature and stone by George Barnard. London, T. Mac Lean [1843]. Broadside (45 x 57 cm), in a portfolio bound in midnight blue half-maroquin, gilt title on spine and first cover (period binding). Superb large-format album, consisting of a colour lithographed title (frontispiece), and 25 plates drawn and lithographed before the letter by G. Barnard, pasted on strong cardboard, magnificently coloured. The views represent : 1- Frontispiece, 2- The village of Grindelwald, 3- The Giesbach, 4- Lake of Thun, 5- Lucerne, from the cathedral bridge, 6- Gros Boden, on the Grimsel, 7- The glaciers, Grindelwald, 8- Simenthal et les Echelles, Leuk (2 views), 9- The Staubach, 10-Lucerne, 11-Passage of the Grimsel, 12- Schaffausen, 13- The baths of Rosenlaui, 14- Peasants of the Kanderthal ascendin the Alps and Girls of Brienz bringing home the gouts Evening (2 views), 15- The Gemmi, 16- Thun, 17- Unterseen, 18- The Jungfrau, 19- Interlachen, 20- Descending the Wengern Alps, 21- Travellers passing the Furca, 22- Fall of the Rossberg and Goldau, 23- The lake of Oeschinen, 24- Hospenthal, 25- Hospice of the Grimsel, 26- Domestic life in the Oberland. The printed list of plates is enclosed. Exceptional collection of views before the letter of this rare and magnificent album, watercoloured with the greatest care and complete with all the illustrations. Minor foxing in the margins. Perret 0266 - Waeber 75 - Abbey 61 - Coolidge 148