Fribourg, Office du Livre, w.d., ca. 1969, in-4to, 239 p., richly ill. with photogr. in b/w and colour, copy from the archives of the publisher with stamp ‘Exemplaire d’Archive’, original clothbound, ill. jacket in colour.
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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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London Smith , Elder, 1873, -74, -75, in-8vo, XVI + 271 + 1 (advertisement) / X + 367 p.+ large folding colour map of Switzerland and the Alps of Savoy & Piedmont in pocket at end / 368 p. 1) Êx-libris ,Rucksack-Club’ / 2) Horace Walker + Ex libris Peter E. Obergfell, gilt decorated cloth. Original publisher’s bindings, some rubbings and or staines.
The account of a tour through the mountains of Switzerland, mostly on foot in 1872. The author started at Zermatt, explored Saas and its glacier, crossed Monte Moro and the Simplon to the Rhone Glacier and finished in the Bernede Oberland. „Alpinism is also a natural and healthy protest in some was against the dull drawing-room routine... / 2) About explorations in southern and central Switzerland / 3) thelast part of Zincke’s triology concerning the eastern Alps of Switzerland and completing an unique view of the Alps during the 1870’s.Offered here as a complet set. First editions. Image disp.
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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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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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