Rodolphe Töpffer - Nouveaux voyages en zigzag à la grande chartreuse, autour du Mont Blanc - 1852

Charming illustrated edition of this work by Rodolphe Töpffer, which extends the tradition of educational travel stories that the Geneva author inaugurated with his first 'Voyages en zigzag.'

This volume, aimed at cultivated youth, recounts the alpine adventures of a group of middle school students accompanied by their preceptor, alternating between geographic descriptions, historical anecdotes, naturalist observations, and moral digressions, all conveyed through a lively, ironic, and vivid style.

Töpffer combines pedagogy and fantasy, exalting the beauties of nature, the virtues of effort, and the pleasures of discovery, while cultivating a humorous distance from the conventions of the scientific narrative.

The illustrations, numerous and expressive, extend this zigzag aesthetic — both a winding itinerary and an indirect learning method — which makes the work a precursor to the graphic novel and an emblematic piece of Alpine romanticism.

Rodolphe Töpffer - New zigzag journeys at the Great Chartreuse, around Mont Blanc - 1852 - Victor Lecou
pp. (4), XVIII, 454

Good condition of the binding, the work in its original full illustrated cardboard binding, with slight signs of use, rubbed headbands and corners, gilded edges, smoothly decorated spine, colored titling, superb illustrations on the covers, and blind-stamped borders framing the covers.

Good interior condition, some foxing, work enriched with beautiful engravings in and out of the text, including a frontispiece.

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