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MURRAY, John.

Switzerland. Handbook for Travellers in Switzerland and the Alps of Savoy

and Piedmont. Including the Protestant valleys of the Waldeneses.

Stock Code
100210
John Murray and Son, London [and] Maison, Paris.1839
£500



This appears to be a 'pirate' edition of the first handbook to Switzerland published by Murray.
These 'pirate' issues are extremely scarce and rarely seen. This copy has slightly different pagination to the copy in the Lister bibliography. It also mentions a map on the title-page and at end of the introduction but there is no map in the book. There is an engraved frontispiece of Berne and an engraved folding panorama of the ' Lac du Zurich dessine depuis L'Hotel Baur'. This edition is much smaller but contains more pages than the 'official' first edition published a year earlier in 1838.

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Description

[First edition, second pirate issue]. Small 8vo (16 x 10 cms), pp. xcix, 517, [1] publisher's list at rear, engraved frontispiece, one engraved folding panorama, bound in contemporary beige cloth, spine gilt lettered 'Switzerland'; overall an attractive copy.

Bibliography

Lister 51.

Stock ID:100210

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