SWITZERLAND: ITS MOUNTAINS AND VALLEYS
Written by Woldemar Raden
Illustrated by A. Closs
Published by Bickers & Son
in 1878
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- ALPINE
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SWITZERLAND: ITS MOUNTAINS AND VALLEYS
Written by Woldemar Raden.
Illustrated by A. Closs.
Stock no. 1606890
1878.
Hardback.
Large format.
Very good condition.
Large, heavy format. Brown leather binding with gilt decoration, raised bands to spine. Marbled endpapers. Gilt page edges. With 418 illustrations engraved by A. Closs. 487 pages. Some scuffs to leather at corners and edges, and a chip to leather towards top right corner of front board, and smaller chip at bottom of rear board. Leather on rear board is stained. Front joint starting to carck from top. Binding firm. Pressed flowers and foliage taped to front endpaper, with inscriptions. Endpapers foxed, some scattered foxing throughout contents, mainly to page margins. Engravings are generally clean and bright. A handsome volume.
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Front cover
Contents
- Introductory
- Away to the Mountains!
- Alpine Roads and Passes
- The Lakes of East Switzerland
- The Realm of the Santis
- The Lake of Walenstad
- The Lake of Zurich
- The Forest Cantons
- The Mountains of Uri
- Excursions in Unterwalden
- Lucerne
- The Rigi
- From Basel to the Bernese Oberland
- Bernese Territory
- The Bodeli
- 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