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19084591Switzerland 1908. Oblong 8vo 19.5 x 12cm. 38 photo prints printed recto only most images 11 x 9cm. Crushed blue morocco ruled in blind with gilt lettering on spine g. e. blue marbled endpapers and gilt ornamented dentelles. Stamped James A. Sinclair & Co. Ltd on rear endpaper. Very good with some rubbing and scuffing to edges of boards and joints. Internally clean with scattered foxing and toning. Photograph album of a trip to Switzerland by an R. C. perhaps Capt. Ralph P. Clutton R.N. 1872-1942. The spine is stamped: Switzerland II R.C. 1908. Beautiful platinum photo prints of landscapes and mountains villages towns and buildings all with penciled locations below. The book was processed and bound by The James A. Sinclair & Co. Ltd a photographic printing studio founded in London 1903. unknown
60609c.1890s. . Albumen print pasted on original card. Fine tonal range in good condition. Title and number in negative; slightly wrinkly card not effecting the negative.<br /> Mürren is a traditional Walser mountain village in Bernese Oberland Switzerland at an elevation of 1650 m 5413 ft. above sea level and unreachable by public road.<br /> c.1890s. unknown
1866S14044St. Gallen:: Werner Hausknecht 1866-70. 1866. 19x16 cm. Portfolio. 1 printed title leaf in German. Bound in original blind- and gilt-stamped dark green cloth; corners showing some wear. 50 charming copperplate engravings by Hirchenhein & Korradi of Winterlin loose as issued. Short ink inscription; ms. note on title. Very good. Album with 50 copperplate engravings or aquatints by Winterlin F. Hirchenhein etc. On each plate the lower right: Hasler & Cie editeurs a Bale. The selection of plates can differ between copies. This copy contains the full allotment of 50 plates detailed below. Note the presence of the William Tell Chapel plate. Another plate shows the ascension of Mount Blanc. / The titles of each of the plates: 1 Montblanc – 2 Chamouny – 3 La Mer de Glace – 4 Arrivee aux Grands Mulets. ascension du Montblanc – 5 Vue de la Flegere – 6 Chateau de Chillon – 7 Hospice du Simplon Vallais – 8 Lac de Douben – 9 Vareu au Valais – 10 Le Pont du Diable Passage du St. Gotthard– 11 Passage de la Gemmi vers les Bains de Loueche – 12 Zermatt et le Mont Cervin – 13 Visp Viege et le Mont Rosa Valais – 14 Chute du Rhin – 15 Berne – 16 Hospice du St. Gotthard – 17 Chute Superieure du Reighenbach – 18 La Handeck Chute de l'Aar – 19 Vue de la Jungfrau – 20 Wetter et Wellhorn et le Glacier de Rosenlaui – 21 Chutes du Giessbach – 22 Vallee de Lauterbrunnen – 23 Neuchatel – 24 Kandersteg vers la Vallee d'Oeschi – 25 Glacier inferieur du Grindelwald – 26 Chute du Staubbach – 27 Unterseen – 28 Vallee de la Kander – 29 Wengernalp – 30 Zurich – 31 Kandersteg vers le passage de la Gemmi – 32 Les deux glaciers de Grindelwald – 33 Village et glacier de Grindelwald – 34 Le Montblanc – 35 Righi-Koulm – 36 Environs de Schwyz pres du Klosterli – 37 Chapelle de Guillaume Tell – 38 Vevey – 39 Lac de Zoug – 40 Amsteg – 41 Le lac de Loungern – 42 Freibourg vue du petit Pont suspendu – 43 Nouvelle Gallerie – 44 Grutli – 45 Lac des IV Cantons – 46 Fluelen – 47 Arth – 48 Via Mala – 49 Seealpsee – 50 La Chute du Rhin. Werner Hausknecht, [1866-70?]. hardcover
189655861London: Macmillan and Co. Ltd. 1896. 8vo. xxxv 1 480 pp. Frontisp. 154 text illustrations diagrams maps 1 large folding colour map after table of contents. Three-quarter green morocco over marbled boards marbled endpapers raised bands gilt lettering & decoration on spine t.e.g. occasional light spotting & foxing minor shelfwear slight bumping to couple corners still VG copy. First edition of this excellent Victorian travelogue of climbing and hiking through the Swiss Alps which also made a significant contribution to modern geology. Lubbock’s work in this treatise and others were noted for understanding the archaeological and geological record in understanding former valley-floor levels and the river terraces in response to geological changes. He was an early proponent in glacial climatic fluctuation which was not widely accepted at the end of the 19th century. David Bridgland John Lubbock’s Early Contribution to the Understanding of River Terraces Notes and Records of the Royal Society of London Vol. 68 No. 1 March 20 2014 pp. 49-63. Macmillan and Co., Ltd., hardcover
61379c.1890s. . Albumen print pasted on original card. Fine tonal range in good condition. Title and number in negative.<br /> Val Roseg is a valley in the Upper Engadine in the Swiss Alps located in the canton of Graubünden in Southeast Switzerland.<br /> [c.1890s]. unknown
25864Couverture rigide. Bon/1854. in-16. Leipzig Weber 1854; in-16 XVI XLVIII 710pp 1f 21 cartes cartonnage d'éditeur en percaline rouge dos lisse orné tranches marbrées 21 cartes. 1 panorama de Rich-Hulm. Riche iconographie sur bois notamment des belles vues de vallées et de montagnes. PREMIÈRE ÉDITION. Cartonnage légèrement frotté qq. rousseurs éparses. Sinon très bon exemplaire. unknown
1910S13765La Chaux-de-Fonds Switzerland: c.1910-1920s. 1910. 4 photographic albums 9 x 6 1/2 inches through 3 1/8 x 4 1/4 inches. Pen notations applied to many images 2 albums with "Rubattel & Weyermann S.A." in gilt on upper cover but all four are from the same source photographs generally very good to excellent a few rubbed. Albums of the period one will be improved some & internally in very good condition. An extensive photographic record of all the finely detailed Rubattel & Weyermann watch casings made over the period. Each is numbered consecutively and additional annotations are frequently present. All in all an extraordinary record of what was produced from this Swiss watch case maker. Rubattel & Weyermann are the same company that in 2002 became integrated to the Swatch Group. CONTENTS: 4 albums: A Album no title containing stock numbers 1-710 pocket watches; B Rubattel & Weyermann Album gilt-stamped title on cover containing stock items 2486-3931 some are pendent cases some wristwatch bands; C Rubattel & Weyermann Album Rubattel & Weyermann is name within on typed card and mounted the album is labelled "12" contains stock numbers 3161-3256 "Cliche" pocket watches; D Rubattel & Weyermann Album gilt-stamped on cover containing stock numbers 4626-5330 many ladies wristwatches the first 7 photographs in this album are of exotic pocket watches very elaborate showing cases that would have been hand painted. c.1910-1920s. unknown
15-9793Stansstad Nidwalden Switzerland: Postkartenverlag Engelberger ca. 1960. 48mo. 10 Color Photographs Post Cards in Portfolio Case Very Good with creasing to portfolio case. Text in German French & English. [Stansstad, Nidwalden, Switzerland: Postkartenverlag Engelberger], [ca. 1960]. unknown
179987734Boston: Manning & Loring for J. Nancrede & others 1799. First American Edition. Octavo in sixes 19cm. Original parchment-backed paper-covered boards; printed spine label; engraved frontispiece; viii9-2604pp. Boards rubbed; spine darkened with some thin vertical creasing and hairline cracks at joints; internally complete and clean. A Good sound copy in original boards. <br /> <br /> Account of the invasion of Switzerland by the French Revolutionary Army under Napoleon Bonaparte and the subsequent establishment of the Helvetic Republic as a puppet state of France. Du Pan a Swiss aristocrat and staunch anti-revolutionary opposed any treaty with the French whom he blamed for debasing all of European culture. This copy retains the four-page publisher's catalog missing from many copies. EVANS 35765. Manning & Loring for J. Nancrede [& others] unknown
39368Geneve & Lausanne. 1776. 8vo. 19.5 x 13 cm. 2 vols.in one. pp.vi279; iv228.Contemporary mottled calf gilt boerder spine with eraised bands gilt decorated compartments red label marbled endpapers red edges. A lovely copy which regrettably lacks the folding map. Geneve & Lausanne. 1776 hardcover
197020600New York: Humanities Press/Leicester University Press. 1970. Reprint. Hardcover. Very Good. A reprint of the first edition of Switzerland published in 1838. Murray published 19 editions of the Switzerland guide between 1838 and 1904. Lister 50 ; The Victorian Library; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 367 pages . Humanities Press/Leicester University Press hardcover
188035999Augusta Georgia: Privately Printed. J. H. Estill Printer 1880. Limited numbered signed edition. Wraps. Fair. Stitched printed wraps. 8.5" x 7". 24 pages. Gray wraps with title on the front paper cover. Front cover creased on the edge. Rear wrap is detached and creased on the edge. Light edge toning to the paper. Very light foxing to the first few pages. This copy has a tipped in slip top of the title page "With the Compliments of Charles C. Jones Jr. Augusta Ga." The limitation page is the verso of the title page. This copy is numbered 118 of 250 copies and is signed "CCJ Jr." Jones authored the prefatory note pages 3-8. The first edition of this tract was originally published in 1724 with few known copies. The author settled 600 of his countrymen in Purrysburg South Carolina. Interior contents mostly clean. A fair to good copy.<br /> <br /> Howes P 653; Sabin 66726. Privately Printed. J. H. Estill, Printer unknown
17-6292Switzerland: unknown circa 1969. 49 x 34.5 cm. Poster. Offset color lithograph. Very Good. Some tears with minor losses. A horizontal crease at bottom of sheet. Switzerland: unknown, circa [1969]. unknown
102469125X.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
034126511X.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
187025751Zurich: Chez R. Dikenman Peintre 1870. 1 vols. ca. 4 3/8 x 3 inches image size on 6 5/8 x 5 inch sheets. Disbound most sheets loose some discoloration in skies of a few plates some marginal chipping or tears but generally very attractive. 1 vols. ca. 4 3/8 x 3 inches image size on 6 5/8 x 5 inch sheets. The views are: Berne; Thoune; Interlaken; La Cehute du Giessbach au lac de Brienz; Chûte supérieur du Reichenbach; Chûte de l'Aar; Glacier de Rosenlauy et les monts Well & Wetterhorn; Les Bains de Rosenlaui; Vue du Glacier re Rosenlaui; Village et Glacier de Grindelwald; Vue du Glacier inférieur de Grindelwauld & de l'Eiger dessiné depuis l'hotel de l'Aigle; Vue du Wetterhorn Schrekhorn Finsteraarhorn et des deux glaciers du Grindelwald; Wengernalp; Vue du Staubbach à Lauterbrunen. Chez R. Dikenman Peintre unknown
53151Bern: Lith. R. Leusinger. Eidg. Landenstopographie Gedruckt. 1921. Overall 60 x 43 cm. dissected into 16 panels laid on linen and folding to 15 x 11 cm brown cloth Stanford paper label "Switzerland" with "Meaderanertal" added in ms. Titled Altdorf at head of map which stretches from Altdorf NW to Segnes SE. Faded stamp of Stanford to lower margin. Bern: Lith. R. Leusinger. Eidg. Landenstopographie Gedruckt. 1921 hardcover
180055889N.p.: n. publisher 1800. 46 2 pp.; A-C8. 1 vols. 8vo. Sewn in self-wrappers. 46 2 pp.; A-C8. 1 vols. 8vo. Written in the interim between 1798 when under the influence of the French Revolution the Helvetic Republic was established and the old cantonal system abolished and 1803 when Napoleon finally restored the old Confederation. OCLC 29091273 1 copy: U Minn; not in Bibliothèque Nationale n. publisher unknown
1808235113Luzern: Johann Martin Anich Gedruckt bey Xaver Meyer 1808. First edition. iv 67 1 pp. 1 vols. 16mo. Contemporary marbled boards. Bookplate. Minor foxing else fine. First edition. iv 67 1 pp. 1 vols. 16mo. Uncommon work by the Balthasar historian of Luzern on the five centuries of the city's history: the "century of freedom" the "military and historical century" the "century of religion" the "philanthropic century" and the "unfortunate century" RLIN lists only the copy in the Swiss National Library Johann Martin Anich [Gedruckt bey Xaver Meyer] unknown
1019723505.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
a50975Lucae 1549 on spine Apud Vincentium Busdraghium. In Latin. Hardcover. Octavo 183pp. plus errata in verso of final leaf later 19thc rebinding in marbled papercovered boards with green leather spine with gilt lettering and decoration on spine. Lacks four blank leaves after errata leaf. A few brown ink underlinings and notes in text. Bit of blue pencil scribble inside front cover. Good Plus boards a bit worn. Pictures available on request. . hardcover
5h635um 1910. 120 unpaginierte kartonierte S. alle Fotos mit Tinte betitelt original Halbleder-Einband folio Kanten berieben/eine Einbandecke abgeknickt/einige Blätter lose/Block gelockert/leicht wellig. - sonst sehr gute Fotoqualität / Die Aufnahmen zeigen schöne Stadt- Dorf- und Burgenansichten Brücken Berg- und Eislandschaften - unknown
183360960St. Gallen Switzerland: A.S. Rƒssel 1833. First edition. Folding lithographed frontispiece view of "Rapperswyl um das Jahr 1606" one other folding lithographed plate and folding table in rear. 1 vols. 8vo. Quarter calf with gilt spine and marbled paper boards. Slight occasional foxing. Very good. First edition. Folding lithographed frontispiece view of "Rapperswyl um das Jahr 1606" one other folding lithographed plate and folding table in rear. 1 vols. 8vo. History of this town in St. Gallen canton on the edge of the Lake of Zurich with two striking lithographs. A.S. Rƒssel unknown
1627311114Leiden: Ex Officina Elzeviriana 1627. Engraved title. 535 17 pp. Index and Privilege leaf. 1 vols. 32mo. Vellum. Toning to spine old dampstain to engraved title vg. Engraved title. 535 17 pp. Index and Privilege leaf. 1 vols. 32mo. Contains Simmler's "De Republica helvetorium" on pages 25-484. <br/><br/> Ex Officina Elzeviriana hardcover
1891002373VG portfolio. Bright red cloth. Gilt & black lettering & decor. 1891. 1st likely. Hardcover. VG book. IN GERMAN. Folio. Plates of photos of buildings plays historical & contemporary personages. . Book's format unusual. It opens directly up 18 pages of text but with no title author publisher. It dives straight into the text. This is followed by a folder with places for 4 pamphlets and a very long fold out of Swiss historical figures The f/o is 16.5x600cm quite long. It is separated at the 2nd fold line. There are no other fold line tears. This fold out's colorful cover is titled "Grundungsfeier der Stadt Bern" and is shown at the bottom on our pic #3. Pic #5 shows it unfolded. At portfolio's end is a section of 28 loose plates. These 28 are all reproduced photos. Pic #4 of two of the pamphlets one contains reproductions of photos. The other unfortunately is empty. More unfortunately the gothic font is difficult for me to read. Hence I've made no attempt to decipher. . hardcover