The Scenery of Switzerland and the Causes to Which it is Due.
The Scenery of Switzerland and the Causes to Which it is Due.
Lubbock, Sir John. Leipzig: Bernhard Tauchnitz, 1897.
2 volumes in 1. Small 8vo., (6 ¼ inches, 15.8 cm.), 279, (1); 280 pp. including index. Text illustrations, diagrams, sectional views and maps. ¾ dark olive brown fine pebbled cloth, marbled paper-covered boards. All edges speckled. Pale green leaf-patterned endpapers. Green ribbon-marker.
Mild rub and wear to head of spine, board edges and outer corners. Top outer corners exposed. Otherwise a clean, tight, attractive copy.
The author spent the summer of 1861 with Huxley and Tyndall in Switzerland. Originally published in London in 1896. This, a much scarcer edition of the following year.
$95.00 CDN