| Description | Extract from "Voyages dans les Alpes", Tomes VI, VIII, by Horace-Benedict de Saussure , describing places in the Alps, mostly in French, 20 pages; extracts from "Sur la literature du Midi de l'Europe" by Jean Charles Leonard de Simonde de Sismondi, on the Northern lights and Cecco d'Ascoli, in French, c.1 page; extract from Mathilde by Sophie Cottin, in French, c.2 pages; 2 sets of verses in English, 1 page; poem on surnames from the New Monthly Magazine for July 1823, 3 pages; poem entitled "The burial of Sir John Moore who fell at the Bttle of Corunna, in Spain, in 1809" by Charles Wolfe, 2 pages; poem entitled "Song of the Modern Greek Bard, Lord Byron, from the Literary Gazette, Aug 1821, 5 pages; at end of book, 3 pages, comprising quotation from Thaddeus of Warsaw, further extracts in French from Mathilde, lines from "Black Dwarf"and "Old Mortality" by Sir Walter Scott, quotation from "Eloge de Werner" by Georges Cuvier. |