The Swiss Family Robinson.

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Attractively illustrated edition of a novel by Johann David Wyss, first published in 1812, about a Swiss family shipwrecked in the East Indies en-route to Port Jackson, Australia.8 vo., xii, 431pp., 20 tipped-in colour plates and illustrations in the text by Robinson, occasional, light, peripheral spotting, mostly to preliminary leaves, publisher's illustrated cloth, gilt (lacking jacket) top edge gilt, spotting to fore-edge (as usual), otherwise very good. Show more