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Travels In Switzerland. Compiled from the most recent authorities.

Author: Anonymous
ISBN #: 
Price: $90.00
Publisher: Lane & Scott
Publisher Location: New York
Book Condition: Good
Edition: Revised
Pub Date: 1851
much wear to tips, corners and edges of the book, covers rubbed, scattered staining to pages, else clean and unmarked, binding is tight. 12mo, 5.5 by 3.5 inches. Revised by the editors. Illustrated by woodcuts. Printed by Joseph Longking for the Sunday School press of the Methodist Episcopal Church following a very scarce 1830 Dublin edition. An account of three companions traveling in 1823 Switzerland. Quite scarce. WorldCat locates only one copy of this edition in the US and four of the Dublin 1830 and five of the London 1831 editions. Seven of the latter nine are found in England or Ireland, one in Scotland at the National Library with the eighth in the Zentralbibliothek Zurich. The book was first printed "Society for Promoting the Education of the Poor in Ireland." It was printed in London the following year the following year by F., C. and J. Rivington and reprinted the same year and illustrated with new cuts, for the use of The Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge." Most items ship with tracking numbers and (generally over $15.00) jacket protectors if applicable. Clean recycled packing material will be used when possible.