Author: SIMOND, L. (Louis):
Title: Switzerland; Or, A Journal of a Tour and Residence in that Country, in the Years 1817, 1818, and 1819: Followed by An Historical Sketch on the Manners and Customs of Ancient and Modern Helvetia, in which the events of our own time are fully detailed; together with the causes to which they may be referred. The second edition. In 2 volumes.
Description: London, John Murray, (London, prinrted by William Clowes), 1823, lg. in-8vo, VII (+ 1) + 520 p. + 1 folding double-plate (with 4 figures of wrestlers) / 4 leaves + 500 p., engraved armorial Ex-Libris 'Anthy Wright Biddulph' cont. full leatherbinding. Spine remounted. ¶ Second English edition. Fine fresh copy without any stains, fine contemporary binding signed 'David Bryce Glasgow'. Among the first Frenchmen to tread the soil of Switzerland after the downfall of the Empire was Louis Simond, who had travelled in England. Simond had good fortune to be shown over the Linth canalisation works by none other than Escher von der Linth himself, and also of hearing an account by this distinguished man, at a meeting of scientists at Lausanne, of the disastrous flood of 1818 in the 'Val de Bagne'. Please notify before visiting to see a book. Prices are excl. VAT/TVA (only Switzerland) & postage. de Beer, Alpes and Men, p. 89; Perret 4062; Waeber 60 (nennt falsch: London 1823 und 2. Aufl. 1833); Barth 17645.

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