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View of the Grimsel Hospice, engraving.

Fleurs odorantes : cueillette des oeillets alpins / Compagnie Liebig.

Frontispiece to Itinera Alpina.

A centaur advertising "Centaure" tonic wine made of Alpine plants. Colour lithograph.

View of the Rhone Glacier, circa 1777.

An episode in La bergère des Alpes by Jean-François Marmontel: Fonrose disguised as a shepherd begs forgiveness from his father M. de Fonrose, while the seated goatherd Adelaide de Sevile is embraced by Madame de Fonrose. Etching by R. Delaunay, 1786, after Etienne Aubry.

Alpine notes & the climbing foot / by George Wherry.

Les alpes en hiver considérées au point de vue médical avec notices sur Davos, Wiesen, Saint-Moritz et la Maloja / par A. Tucker Wise.

Nouvelle description des glacieres, vallées de glace et glaciers qui forment la grande chaîne de Alpes de Savoye, de Suisse et d'Italie / Par M. Bourrit.

A woman and a soldier, both on horseback, are attacked by wolves while riding in the Alps in winter. Stipple engraving by P.W. Tomkins, 1798, after W. Hamilton.

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Alpine notes & the climbing foot / by George Wherry.

An episode in La bergère des Alpes by Jean-François Marmontel: Fonrose disguised as a shepherd begs forgiveness from his father M. de Fonrose, while the seated goatherd Adelaide de Sevile is embraced by Madame de Fonrose. Etching by R. Delaunay, 1786, after Etienne Aubry.

Les alpes en hiver considérées au point de vue médical avec notices sur Davos, Wiesen, Saint-Moritz et la Maloja / par A. Tucker Wise.

Nouvelle description des glacieres, vallées de glace et glaciers qui forment la grande chaîne de Alpes de Savoye, de Suisse et d'Italie / Par M. Bourrit.

A woman and a soldier, both on horseback, are attacked by wolves while riding in the Alps in winter. Stipple engraving by P.W. Tomkins, 1798, after W. Hamilton.