| MALLESON, G.B. (George Bruce) (1825-1898): |
Captain Musafir's rambles in Alpine lands. Illustrated by G. Strangman Handcock. London, W.H. Allen, 1884, in-4to, XIV + 2 p. + 150 p., with 2 text illustrations + 8 plates incl. frontispiece (5 views and 3 costumes) + 1 leaf (adverts, recto entirely covered with mounted 2 column article "The Climbing Season in Switzerland"), text very clean and tight, front endpaper split at inner hinge, frontispiece and last leaf loosening, original publisher's gilt-stamped blue cloth, extremities of corners and of top and bottom of spine rubbed and chipped, spine faded, gilt edges. A very good copy.
- Prix : 220.00 CHF
- Commander
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| First edition. This work is mostly about Tyrol, Bavarian Highlands, Switzerland, Carinthia, etc. An autobiographical work, using the name Musaphir, which the author describes as "Persian for traveller". Colonel George Bruce Malleson was a British career officer in India and writer of many military works, especially pertaining to India and Central Asia. This work was written for his own enjoyment after a vacation in these alpine parts. A second edition was published in 1885. Waeber BSL III/103; Perret -. |
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