[Rarebooks] FS: 1843 Swiss Mountain Tourism
Deborah Thornton Pendleton
dtpendle at ceinetworks.com
Wed Dec 20 08:54:06 EST 2006
For Your Consideration.
HAND-BOOK FOR TRAVELLERS IN SWITZERLAND AND THE ALPS OF SAVOY AND
PIEDMONT. A NEW EDITION, REVISED AND CORRECTED. London: John Murray,
&c., 1843. 8vo. in original marbled boards backed in calf with gilt
rules and lettering. Spine and covers worn. Marbled endpapers.
Contemporary itinerary pinned on to front blank. Includes a list of
routes, modes of travel, Swiss inns, notes on glaciers, avalanches and
snow storms. Includes a fold-out silk map showing routes described in
the text, a fold-out map of the Burmese Alps (1" closed tear at fold),
and a fold-out map of The Chain of Mont Blanc as seen from the Brevent.
Index at rear. $110
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