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Illustrated in a series of views taken expressly for this work by W.H. Bartlett, Esq. George Virtue, London, 1836. In-8 gr. (mm. 260x205), mz. pelle coeva con ang., ricca decorazione e titolo oro al dorso, tagli marmorizzati, pp. (2),IV,(2),188; (4),152; con 2 vignette incise alle antiporte che raffigurano un Cottage, near Thun, with dance of peasants e The Devil's Bridge, scene of action. L'opera è corredata di 106 bellissime tavole f.t. inc. su acciaio, da disegni espressamente realizzati da Bartlett, che rappresentano romantiche vedute delle più pittoresche località; in fine al 2° volume una carta geografica della Svizzera, più volte ripieg., disegnata ed incisa da T. Starling. "Edizione originale" di questa dettagliata descrizione dei 22 Cantoni svizzeri, con notizie storiche, climatiche, geologiche, ecc. e appunti su usi e costumi, aneddoti e tradizioni. Cfr. Imhof Cat. Bibl. Centrale Club Alpino Svizzero, p. 152 - Brunet,I,714.Nel 1° vol. fiorit. al verso di ca. 15 tavv. che solo su alcune appaiono in forma molto leggera anche al recto dell'immagine, altrimenti esemplare ben conservato.
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1) Christ. Herold, J. : The Swiss without Halos. N.-Y. Columbia UP., 271 p., 1948. cloth. Sfr. 25.-2) Guide to switzerland. Ward, Lock travel guide with maps (1 missing) and town-plans, 60 ill., ca. 1930. 20.-3) Martin, R.: The land and people of Switzerland. 1961, ill. 15.-4) Dicks, D.: Ticking along too. Stories about Switzerland. 1990. 18.- 5) Grieben Guide Bks: Switzerland. with 16 maps. 1925. 35.-6) Switzerland Life and Activity. 1953. 20.-7) Dumas, Alexandre: Travels in Switzerland. London, Owen, 1958, gr. 8°, 230 p., cl. 25.-8) Richard Wildblood: What makes Switzerland tick? The Book Guild, Sussex, 1988, gr. 8°, 103 p., cl. 15.-9) George Mikes introduces Switzerland. London, André Deutsch, gr. 8°, 168 p., ill., cl. 20.-10) Fodor's modern guides: Switzerland. Illustrated edition with atlas and city plans. London, MacGibbon & Kee, 1961, 8°, ill., 308 p., cl. 15.-11) The Political Institutions of Switzerland. Zurich, 1969, 8°, 91 p., ill., cl. 20.-13) Thürer, G.: Free and Swiss. The story of Switzerland. London, Wolff, 1970, gr. in-8°, 198 p + 8 pl., cl., 20.-14) Schlaepfer, Ch.: What is Switzerland ? Ouchy, 1953, gr. in-8°, 10 p., br. 12.-15) Wettstein, G.: The history of Switzerland and consolidation of Nations. Zürich, n.d., gr. in-8°, 16 p., br. 12.-16) Traz, R. de:: Switzerland, land of peace and liberty. Lausanne, Osec, 1949, gr. in-8°, 93 p. + 8 pl., br. 20.-18) D. Baud-Bovy & P. Deslandes & R. Grandvoinet & S. Masnata: Switzerland, land of peace and liberty. Lausanne, Osec, (ca. 1939), gr. in-8°, 80 p. + 8 pl., br. 20.-19) McPhee, J.: La Place de la Concorde Suisse. 1984. (Switzerland des not have an army, Switzerland is an army!) 15.-20) Lunn, Arnold: The swiss and their mountains. A study of the influence of mountains on man. 1963, 24 ill. on plates, cloth, jackett. 25.-
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21) Lunn, Arnold: Switzerland in english prose and poetry. ‘The new Alpine library’. 1947, ill. cloth (worn) 20.- / 22) NATAN, Alex: Swiss men of letters. London, Oswald Wolff, 1970, 288 p.22) EPSTEIN, E. v. Take me to your chalet.1982. 15.-23) BILTON, P. Xenophobe’s guide to the Swiss. 1995. 10.-24) EPSTEIN, E. v. Who put the WIT in sWITzerland. 1993. 15.-25) Ticking along with the Swiss. (1995). 15.- Image disp.
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Switzerland, the south of France and the Pyrenees.
London, printed for Whittaker and Co. (printed by Manning and Smithson), 1837, in-8vo, 370 p. with 1 engraved folding map of Switzerland, good condition, ms. name of owner on fly-leaf, half calf binding with corners, spine on 5 raised bands with title label, gold tooled spine, top of spine missing, front hinge slightly starting, covers used.
This work contains Inglis's relation of his travels in Switzerland and parts of France. In Switzerland he passed through the following places and cantons: Basel, Argovie, Zurich, Zoug, Schwytz (especially Einsiedeln), Glarus, St.-Gall, Grisons (a.o. Engadine), Uri, Lucerne, Berne (a.o. St. Peter's Isle, Hofwyl, The Oberland Bernois), Fribourg, Vaud and Geneva. Several editions followed the first edition published in 2 parts in 1831-1835 (the fifth in 1840). This edition is complete in 1 volume. Inglis's travel relations and interesting observations were written with pleasant ease, complete with a map of Switzerland. Barth 17826; Wäber BSL III/65; Hoefer NBG XXV/869.
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Travels in Switzerland. In a series of letters to William Melmoth. In 2 volumes.
Dublin, for L. White (et al), 1789, in-8°, 1 leaf + VII p. + 2 leaves + VI + 555 p. / XIV p. + 1 leaf + 544 p. + 12 leaves (Index), with 1 folding panorama + 4 engraved plates, (both maps, Switzerland & Mont Blanc are lacking), pastedown of both volumes with Dublin College prize label in the Latin language filled in by hand for the pupil named Francis Blackburg, circular ‘Ex Libris Anthony Michaelis’ on endpaper of 1st vol., cont. marbled calf prize-bindings with gilt supralibros of Dublin College, green title labels on spine, spine soberly gilt, extremity of one spine and top of other chipped. Still a very good copy.
VERY RARE DUBLIN IMPRINT. A revised and enlarged edition of Coxe's earlier publication of the letters, with engraved figures added, Another edition was published the same year in London. These editions served as the bases of a number of editions published in the following decenium.This copy includes the folding panorama "View of the Alps as seen from the environs of Berne", a plate "View of the lakes of Thun and Brienz from the top of the Niess", a plate showing the "Head of bearded vulture", and 2 simple plates: the timber bridge of Wettingen, and two bouquetins. Cox first published his travels in 1779 under the title «Sketches of the natural, civil and political state of Switzerland».Coxe left a curacy in Denham, near Uxbridge, to become tutor to the Duke of Marlborough's eldest son, and two years later became travelling tutor to the son of the Earl of Pembroke. It was in this capacity that he undertook the travels through Switzerland about which he wrote here. According to Abbey ‘Coxe is credited with being the first to apply notions of the ‘Picturesque’ to Switzerland, and with being one of the first to write in such a way as to open the country up to touristic possibilities’ Cf. Barth 17601, Cox I/158, Engelmann II/924, Lowndes I/543, and Graesse II/293; cf. Perret 1159.
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Switzerland and the Bavarian Highlands. (Title on spine:) Switzerland its Mountains and Valleys. Illustrated with engravings by Closz.
London, Virtue, n.d. (around 1880), in-4to, XIV + 628 p., richly illustrated with over 600 woodcuts on plates and in-text, Original clothbound, gilt cover and spine, foot of spine a bit damaged, 3 edges gilt, overall a fine copy.
Contents: Introduction - Away to the mountains - Alpine roads and passes - The lakes of east Switzerland -The realm of the Säntis - The Lake of Walenstad - The Lake of Zürich - The Forsest Cantons - The mountains of Uri - Excursions in Unterwalden - Lucerne -The Rigi - From Basel to the Bernese Oberland - Bernese Territory - The Bödeli - Higher up! - The Western Lakes - From the Lake of Geneva to the ‘Mer de Glace’ - Valais - The Lateral Valleys - Italian Switzerland - From the St. Gotthard to Chur - Chur and its neighbourhood - Through the Engadine. The Bavarian Highlands etc. etc. Image disp.
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Excursions in Switzerland. In 2 vols.
London, Richard Bentley, 1836, in-8vo, XV + 304 p. / VIII + 314 p., ex-libris 'Thomas Conolly' / exlibris Peter E. Obergfell, half calf with corners, green title pieces on spines, gilt decor. on spines, marbled boards. Very fine copy.
First English edition. One of the Cooper's travel sketches written in 1828, in the form of letters, published in 1836 (first American edition). Visits mainly to the alpine regions like the Bernese Oberland, the Valais and Central Switzerland. The famous author of ,The Last of the Mohicans’, saw a friend in Thun, a captain in the Swiss army, marching at the head of his men, Cooper joined him in the march, in order to inquire after his family, and writes ‘and thus I have had the honour of serving in the Swiss ranks’ (Beer).The author travelled in Europe from 1828-1832 and spent much of 1828 in Switzerland on a grand tour on the lakes, passes and peaks. All the accolades for his American novels could not quell British condemnation of his highly critical English sketches. On his Swiss tour, however, he was overwhelmed by the “sublime and diversified beauties” and, although he critically compared everything European with everything American, his genius for detailed observation is best shown on his all-inclusive Swiss tour. De Beer, Travellers in Switzerland, 177-178; Allibone I, p.424-25; Wäber II, 69; Perret 1109-A (la première édition anglaise est rarissime); Reichler, Le voyage en Suisse -. Image disp.
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