Author: HARVEY, Edmund George, & Richard Marrack. Title: How we did them in seventeen days ! To Wit: Belgium, the Rhine, Switzerland, & France, Described and Illustrated by One of Ourselves; aided, assisted, encouraged, and abetted by THE OTHER!
Description: Truro: Lake & Lake, (1876), in-8vo, 68 p., 8 wood-engraved plates, exlibris Peter E. Obergfell, publisher's green cloth with gilt title on upper cover and spine ,Our Rapid Run through Belgium, Germany, Switzerland & France'. Gilt edges. ¶ First and only edition of an unusual Truro imprint. This collection of a trip around Switzerland, idiosyncratically illustrated by the authors, includes the usual tales of travel. It is enlivened by the account of an ascent of the Rigi, of a trip to the Bernese Oberland, and reaches its close with a visit to Chamonix via the Tête Noire. Please notify before visiting to see a book. Prices are excl. VAT/TVA (only Switzerland) & postage. Not in any of the usual bibliographies / Helveticat - No copy found in Swiss libraries.
Keywords: travel, exploration voyage Alps alpes
Price: CHF 350.00 = appr. US$ 347.26 Seller: Harteveld Rare Books Ltd.
- Book number: 139997