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‎Swiss Tourist Almanac. Winter Season 1921/22‎

‎Edited by the Swiss Tourist Information Office. Zurich & Lausanne, (Published by:) Otto Walter Ltd, Olten, 1921, in-8vo, coloured front + XVI (Calendar for 1921) + 111 p. (+1) + illustrated with photogr. plates + 128 p. printed on fine white paper with publicity for hotels, skiing slopes & shopping facilities (one plate in colour ‘Heidsieck Champagne Reims’) + 4 illustr. smaller pages on brownish paper: ‘Compagnie Transatlantique’ ‘Nouveau Paquebot Paris’, clothbound , illustrated with figure skaters on yellow cloth. (Cover design by Eugen Jordi, Belp). Very fine condition.‎

‎With the following contents: Life in a Winter Sport Centre. / The advantages of a visitor’s ski club. / The advantages of a visitor’s Ski Club / On learning languages / Switzerland in America. Names of swiss cities live on in New-World settlements / Arnold LUNN: The development of british Ski-Ing. Davos - / The passion week in Mendrisio / COOLIDGE: My first winter visit to Switzerland (January 1874) Skirunners on the little Scheidegg / Altitude and disease. A sunny height above Montreux / Calvin’s tomb and the secret concerning it. 1 coloured plate ‘le grand et le petit Muveran by G. Flemwell’. / The plants beneath the alpine snows / Winter photography in Switzerland / Gian BUNDI: Romansch in the Grisons / Idem: The beggars of Ponte. / Phot. Steiner / Bopp / Gaberell / Gabler / Erisman. Image disp.‎