swiss alps (6 resultados)

Soft cover. Condición: Very Good. 122 pages. W H Auden "Winds" (poem) / Aldous Huxley "Consider the Lilies" / Alberto Moravia "The Strawberry Mark" / William Plomer "Anglo-Swiss: or, A Day Among the Alps" (poem) /Cyril Connolly "Hazlitt's 'Liber Amoris'" / Elizabeth Jennings "Not in the Guide-Books" (poem) / Jean Stewart "Recollections of Pontigny".

Apr 10, 2016. Condición: Neu.

36 leaves of photographic illustrations. Original publisher's pictorial wrappers. Lightly rubbed and marked. Internally clean and crisp. An early twentieth-century pictorial souvenir album comprised of thirty-six views of the Swiss Alpine passes of Furka and Grimsel. Size: Oblong 8vo.

they set off with few garments and some sketching materials by train to Sierre, where they take a diligence to Visp, staying at Le Soleil, where she had been with her sister in June, her preferred diet is tea or cafe au lait, not 'the sour wines' , butter, eggs and bread, or macaroni; up the Zermatt valley with three horses and three guides, who say 'some ladies are so frightened at this point they shed tears', mutton chops at hotel at St Niklaus when the guide make a sort of cart to continue to Zermatt, 'Oh! The loveliness of early morning among the mountains. The delicate colouring below the line of rosy light . . . ' , her companions struggle but she makes the summit at Gornergrat without difficulty, and looks at Monte Rosa and the Gorner Glacier, on the return she picks flowers 'some quite new to me', and makes drawings of them as quickly as possible, on the way back to Visp give some ladies their horses in exchange for mules, take a cabriolet fo Brig, engage an Italian coachman Pierre Chathin, to Andermatt and the Rhone glacier, 'Like all glaciers it is retreating fast & the sides are now quite bare', while carriage is repaired she sketches racks of drying corn, by rail to Glarus, where she visits a fabric printing house, to Zurich were Mr T leaves them for England. a little fraying at edges of leaves, This well-written and legible account of an excursion into the Alps was by an experienced and fit lady traveller, who had often visited Switzerland. (She had viewed the Matterhorn before it had been climbed). She is accompanied by a friend and a Mr T, who find themselves in high summer being ravaged by mosquitoes, while staying at Aigle. To escape the insects, they decide to go to the mountains, and after consulting maps and guides decide to head for Zermatt and the Gornergrat. This journey was made between 1868 and 1878, when the Simplon railway had reached Sierre, and before the line was extended to Brig.

An interesting letter from Flemwell, written while working on his 1910 A. and C. Black book 'Alpine Flowers and Gardens Painted'. In good condition, with envelope carrying Swiss stamps and postmarks, addressed to 'H. Stuart Thompson Esqre. / Forest View; / Vale Rd.; / Upper Parkstone; / Dorset.' 4pp, 12mo. Eight-six lines of text, including pencil postscript. He begins: 'Dear Thompson; / After finishing a new chapter, & before starting upon another, I really must break off & write to you!' He thanks him for 'so many "kind attentions"', adding that 'Every fresh article of your's [sic] I like better than the last.' An example between the 'ten-league strides' that Thompson is making is the difference between his '"Kerry" article & those articles you sent a year ago to the "Teachers' Times"': 'One would hardly think they were by the same man.' He discusses Thompson's 'notice of Arber's book' and 'remarks about English v Latin names', and may add a quotation from him, but he 'mustn't put you too often in the book if you write the Preface! It will look too much as if we were "scatching each other's backs"!? / And what do you think of a short Introduction in French from M. Correvon - as well as a Preface in English from you?' He explains that 'the book is a double one: it is an Appreciation of the Pastures (Part I) , and Part II is a Suggestion for the Adoption of such pastures in England. [.] a word in French from Correvon adds an interest which appeals to the Swiss, & it influences the reception & sale of the book over here. As a matter of "business", therefore, I think it is wise.' He continues on the subject of the 'two Introductions', and if Thompson has no objection, he will take his pictures to Geneva, to show them to Correvon, as soon as he has retouched them and 'put them quite in order'. 'I have to-day received them from the man who has mounted them in Lausanne; &, in looking through them as they now are, I can see another week's work on them.' He ends with an enquiry about Thompson's own book, giving the 'dogmatic advice' that he should not allow himself to be 'led off into Politics': It's an empty business; it's not your sphere - nor mine. Leave it to the Jones's!' Postscript: 'Sleighing, ski-ing & luging in full swing; but few English at present here. Winter has come to stay!' Together with this item is an ALS from Thompson to 'Mr. Cox', beginning: 'I can't find a short letter from Flemwell which I can spare, but enclose a longer one with his autograph. I fear there is rather much about myself in it, but that was often his custom.' The rest of the letter concerns a 'framed C. B. Branwhite' which Thompson has offered to Cox.

Gelatin silver prints mounted to stiff cards. 1 vols. Images postcard size, 16 x 11.8 cm (6-1/4 x 4-3/4 inches). Some slight fading, but overall the images are bright and clear Gelatin silver prints mounted to stiff cards. 1 vols. Images postcard size, 16 x 11.8 cm (6-1/4 x 4-3/4 inches).