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Decorative Cloth. Condition: VG. Dust Jacket Condition: VG-. 1st. Published 1947 - 64, the 5 volume set of the official history of the first 100 years of Swiss railways. A monumental work covering all aspects of the planning, construction, operations, locomotives, rolling stock, personel - including the rack railways and cablecars. 590 + 529 + 529 + 704 + 585pp, the first 4 volumes have loose plans and maps at rear (all complete), 100s of photos and figures in text. German text. A VG set in the original cloth/gilt binding, but some old ownership stamps etc to prelims. All volumes have their dust wrappers, but these are edge worn with some minor loss. Very heavy (over 10kgs!) - please enquire for postage costs.…

in-8vo, coloured front + XVI (Calendar for 1921) + 111 p. (+1) + illustrated with photogr. plates + 128 p. printed on fine white paper with publicity for hotels, skiing slopes & shopping facilities (one plate in colour ?Heidsieck Champagne Reims?) + 4 illustr. smaller pages on brownish paper: ?Compagnie Transatlantique? ?Nouveau Paquebot Paris?, clothbound , illustrated with figure skaters on yellow cloth. (Cover design by Eugen Jordi, Belp). Very fine condition. With the following contents: Life in a Winter Sport Centre. / The advantages of a visitor?s ski club. / The advantages of a visitor?s Ski Club / On learning languages / Switzerland in America. Names of swiss cities live on in New-World settlements / Arnold LUNN: The development of british Ski-Ing. Davos - / The passion week in Mendrisio / COOLIDGE: My first winter visit to Switzerland (January 1874) Skirunners on the little Scheidegg / Altitude and disease. A sunny height above Montreux / Calvin?s tomb and the secret concerning it. 1 coloured plate ?le grand et le petit Muveran by G. Flemwell? / The plants beneath the alpine snows / Winter photography in Switzerland / Gian BUNDI: Romansch in the Grisons / Idem: The beggars of Ponte. / Phot. Steiner / Bopp / Gaberell / Gabler / Erisman.Please notify before visiting to see a book. Prices are excl. VAT/TVA (only Switzerland) & postage. …