(BRIDGES, GEORGE WINDHAM): - Alpine Sketches. Comprised in a short tour through parts of Holland, Flanders, France, Savoy, Switzerland and Germany, during the summer of 1814. By a member of the University of Oxford.
London, Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1814, in-8vo, VIII + 312 p, very few staines, Alpine Bookplate 'Ex Libris Herm. Bossard', bound in original calf, spine with morocco titlepiece, spine a bit discoloured but in all a fine copy. ¶ First edition, followed by a 2nd edition in 1821 with coloured plates. Both editions are very rare. For the alpine & swiss part, Bridges voyage went from Geneva to Chamonix, Col de Balme, Martigny, Sion, Leuk, Gemmi Pass, Kanderstegg, Thun, Berne, Herzogenbuchsee, Baden Zurich, Schaffhausen and Basle. Wäber 56; de Beer, Travellers in Switzerland p. 132; Dreyer, 294 (Irrtümlich 320 S.); Perret - ; Helveticat -
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