1840 Rohbock handcol Engr ALETSCH GLACIER SWITZERLAND

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1840 Rohbock handcol Engr ALETSCH GLACIER SWITZERLANDPoppel after RohbockALETSCH GLACIER, VALAIS, SWITZERLANDDarmstadt ca. 1840Fine steel engravingca 25 x 17.7 cm.EXQUISITE ENGRAVING IN FINE HAND COLOUR..Luxus Edition on China Paper.The Aletsch Glacier (German: Aletschgletscher) or Great Aletsch Glacier (German: Grosser Aletschgletscher) is the largest glacier in the Alps. It has a length of about 23 km and covers more than 120 square kilometres (more than 45 square miles) in the eastern Bernese Alps in the Swiss canton of Valais. The Aletsch Glacier is composed by three smaller glaciers converging at Concordia, where its thickness is estimated to be near 1 km. It then continues towards the Rhone valley before giving birth to the Massa river.Daniel Good Rare Books, Saxlingham, Holt, Norfolk, England.