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Switzerland and the Swiss: sketches of the country and its famous men. By the author of «The knights of the frozen sea», etc., etc.
London, Seeley, Jackson & Halliday, MDSSSLXXVII, 1877, in-8°, VIII + 291 p. (+ 1) + 2 ll. (catalogue of popular works on foreign countries) + 24 wood engraved plates, foxing in the first few pages, pictorial publ. clothbound (Wilhelm Tell & Son gild on froncover), spine gild & black illustrated, used & a bit duststained.
Reference : 107899aaf
First London edition, very rare, not in the relevant ‘Alpine’ catalogues or bibliographies. Illustrated with 24 woodcut plates. The undertitle of the first edition «... by an American resident» is different from this edition, but with the same number of pages and illustrations. The book contains chapters on lake cities, the Alps, glaciers, ancestry, slavery, battles, the reformation, remarkable men, with a special chapter of the ‘alpine climbers’, ethnology, etc.The full-page woodcut illustrations nearly all show views of some of the famous alpine regions, as well as a few views of towns and villages: Basle, Milan, Gersau, Freyburg, Einsiedeln, Zurich, Lausanne, the interior of a chalet, Chamounix and Mont Blanc. Waeber BSL III/97 (1st edition of Zürich 1875 / 2nd edition (Dutton New York 1877), 2nd ed. (recte 3rd ed) New York 1878 / 3rd ed. (recte 4th ed.) Zürich 1884); not in Perret. , Graham Brown coll., Meckly, or Réan Monte Bianci.
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Harteveld Rare Books Ltd.
M. Ben Harteveld
rue des Alpes, 5
1700 Fribourg
Switzerland
41 (0)26 3223808
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