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1) A month in Switzerland. / 2) and: Swiss Allmends and a Walk to see them Being a second month in Switzerland /3) and: A Walk in the Grisons. Being a third month in Switzerland. In. 3 volumes
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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A walk in the Grisons being a third month in Switzerland.
London, Smith, Elder & Co 1875, in-8vo, XV (+1) + 368 p., ex libris P.G. Skinos (Panof Grafsos), 1 blindstamp on first fly ‘W.H. Smith & Son Library Strand’, original blue clothbound, cover with gilt central image of a randonneur in front of the Matterhorn lifting his alpenstock with his hat on top, spine with gilt title and edelweiss.
The author was Vicar of Wherstead and Chaplain to the Queen. De Beer in his ‘Travellers in Switzerland (1949) describes the whole trip, all the towns, villages, and passes done in 1874 on p. 353/54. He added an interesting quote from Zincke. ‘If these Prätigau peasants were transferred to this country, they could do in England what they do in the Prätigau. If 10,000 of our peasantry were transferred to the Prätigau, and put in possession of the existing houses, and of the land, and of every appliance needed for cultivating it, the only result would be universal starvation’. de Beer, Travellers 353; Perret -; Wäber 345. Image disp.
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Phone number : 41 (0)26 3223808
A walk in the Grisons being a third month in Switzerland.
London, Smith, Elder & Co 1875, in-8vo, XV (+1) + 368 p., original blue clothbound, book cover with gilt central image of a walker in front of the Matterhorn? lifting his alpenstock with his hat on top, spine with gilt title and edelweiss (part of lower spine with lateral split, no loss).
The author was Vicar of Wherstead and Chaplain to the Queen. De Beer in his ‘Travellers in Switzerland (1949) gives the whole trip all the towns, villages, and passes done in 1874 on p. 353/54. He added an interesting quote from Zincke. ‘If these Prätigau peasants were tranferred to this country, they could do in England what they do in the Prätigau. If 10,000 of our peasantry were transferred to the Prätigau, and put in possession of the existing houses, and of the land, and of every appliance needed for cultivating it, the only result would be universal starvation’. de Beer, Travellers 353; Perret -; Wäber 345.
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Phone number : 41 (0)26 3223808
Swiss allmends and a walk to see them being a second month in Switzerland.
London Smith, Elder & Co, 1874, in-8vo, IX (+ 1) + 367 p. (+ 1 white) + 2 leaves + 1 map in rear pocket, original blue clothbound, book cover with gilt central image of a walker in front of a mountain (Matterhorn?), lifting his alpenstock with his hat on top, spine with gilt title and edelweiss, fine copy.
Frist edition. The often missing large engraved map here present: Switzerland and the Alps of Savoy and Piemont by Keith Johnston. Engr. by W. & A.K. Johnston, Edinburgh. A very fine copy. BH II, 528; de Beer, Travellers 348; Perret -; Wäber 97.
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Phone number : 41 (0)26 3223808
