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‎Poles and Tales; or English vagabondism in Switzerland, in the summer of 1854. By two of the vagabonds. (Printed for Private Circulation).‎

‎London : Printed by E. Billing & Son, Bermondsey Street, 1855, sm. in-8vo, (17.5x11 cm.), double-page frontispice (the vagabonds running out of a Alpine hut observing „An avalanche“) + 81 p. (incl. the titlepage) + 3 n.n.. p. + 2 double-page ill. „Stealing a March on the Enemy“ & „Lauterbrunnen going down“, Handwritten on orig.-cover (to) W. Wilson, from one of the authors of this tale of vagabondism. March 1855. / Ex libris: Peter E. Obergfell. recent full leather binding, spine on five bands richly gilt with leather titlepiece, original front cover with dedication note bound in. A fine copy, nicely bound.‎

Reference : 140759aaf


‎A funny, very british trip through Switzerland, (7 man & 1 lady) up and down hill and visiting all the famous mountain tourist spots, as Grindelwald (not the best place for spending a sunday) „Early the next morning we were en route for Meyringen, lustily singing, as we went along, the first and only song composed by our Poet“... No other copy found in the: British library / Libr. of Congress / Bibl. Nat. de France / Helveticat (Bibliothèque Nat. Suisse). Worldcat - Image disp.‎

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