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188447370London: W.H. Allen & Co. 1884. 4to. xiv 2 150 2 pp. Frontisp. numerous plates text illustrations. Blue cloth over beveled boards black ruling decorative gilt lettering on front cover & spine minor shelfwear minor rubbing to corners very slight bumping to corners still VG copy from library of Walther Schnitze w/ ownership stamp front pastedown. First edition of this wonderful travel account through Germany Bavaria Switzerland and into the Tyrolean Alps of Northern Italy describing the food the costume customs and more. Malleson 1825-1898 is perhaps best known as British officer who wrote numerous works on the Indian Mutiny. W.H. Allen & Co., hardcover
190059800Disentis - Madernal Switzerland: Felix Huonder 1900. Gelatin silver prints mounted to stiff cards. 1 vols. Images postcard size 16 x 11.8 cm 6-1/4 x 4-3/4 inches. Some slight fading but overall the images are bright and clear. Gelatin silver prints mounted to stiff cards. 1 vols. Images postcard size 16 x 11.8 cm 6-1/4 x 4-3/4 inches. Felix Huonder unknown
188054523Solothurn n.d. ca. 1880. Leporello 165 x 148 cm. in orig. clothcovers with ties. Original printed pictorial wrapper on frontboard. Tinted lithography by X. Amiet Solothurn. On foot "Vom Weissenstein aufgenommen". Clean and fine. hardcover
186985507h<p>London: Illustrated London News 1869. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. Folio - over 12 - 15" tall. Half-year run bound in early half-leather over pebbled cloth boards. Some edge-wear and bumping to covers; small paper label painted over to upper spine. Edges toned and old library bookplate and marks to front and rear endpapers. Front hinge nearly exposed internally at endpaper but still firm. Otherwise clean tight and unmarked. Very neat -- a sound and handsome volume and internally unusually bright and clean. Superb illustrations.</p> Illustrated London News hardcover
187117034AB1871. Paris Le monde illustre 1871. 34 : 104 cm. Many folded original woodcut. Housed in original cardboard slipcase gilt title on front board. Beautiful Panorama-View of Mount Cenis and Mount Frejus in the French Alps. - Large woodcut signed in the right lower corner by Hubert Clerget. Mounted on light cloth. - Edges slightly trimmed. - Rare. hardcover
185942979London Taylor and Francis 1859. 4to. No wrappers as extracted from "Philosophical Transactions" 1859 - Vol. 149 - Part I. Pp. 261-278 a. 2 lithographed plates. some small brownspots to plates. pp. 279-307 textillustrations. <br/><br/><em>First printing of two classical papers on Glaciers.Tyndall's investigations on glacier actions is based on his work on the influence of mechanical pressure upon manifestations of magnetic force."Generalizing from the effects of pressure on slate led him to the sudy of glacial movement.; in turn glaciers fostered a passion for mountaineering and a fascination for what was to beome his major work - the effects of solar and later jeat radfiation on atmospheric gases."DSB XIII p. 522. </em> unknown