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1000 Years of Swiss Art

By: N/A

Price: $35.00

Publisher: Manchester, Vermont, U.S.A., Hudson Hills Pr: 1992

Seller ID: 001070

ISBN: 1555950795

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine

[Shaped Postcard] Souvenir de L'Oberland Bernois. Grindelwald & Wetterhorn

By: N/A

Price: $50.00

Seller ID: 002952

Binding: NA

Condition: Very Good Plus

The unusual postcard is shaped like a mountain climbing boot bottom, with a color photo of Grindelwald inset on the sole. N.d., circa 1930. Measuring 25 by 10 cm at its largest width and height.
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Petits Souvenirs de la Suisse

By: N/A

Price: $1,500.00

Seller ID: 003190

Binding: Full Morocco Leporello, Morocco Slipcase

Condition: Fine

An extraordinary miniature souvenir from Switzerland. 14 panels, each a mere 370 by 250 mm or so, of hand-colored views of Switzlerland, including the Staubbach, Grindelwald Glacier, Wengen, the bridge in Fribourg, the Pont de Diable (Devil's Bridge), Chamouny, Chinon, the Chapel of William Tell. One illustration is rendered twice, of three Bernese maidens, captioned "The Three Graces" in one of the plates. The illustrations are printed and mounted onto card. The captions are not printed, but rather written in ink onto the card leaves. Bound in a thin morocco, with a delicate moroc...
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Landschaften und Bauten. Eine Buchreihe. Band II: Unser Holz Sein Wert und Seine Bedeutung in der Schweizerischen Volkswirtschaft

By: N/A

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Bern, Basel, Rickenbach/Olten, Im Ilionverlag: 1942

Seller ID: 003450

Condition: Near Fine

4to. 31.5 by 23 cm. 436 pp. Many plates with photos and illustrations. Clean and tight copy. DJ with several large tears.
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Collection des Costumes de la Suisse et de les pays limitrophes

By: N/A

Price: $675.00

Publisher: Zürich, Keller et Fussli:

Seller ID: 004917

Binding: Full Morocco

Condition: Very Good

N.d., circa 1830. 32mo. 11 by 9.5 cm. 23 hand-colored plates, including title page, with its wreath of alpenrose. Costumes from the cantons and major cities plus the Black Forest. Each illustration features two or three men and women, usually performing some typical craft or activity associated with the area, or ready to do so. In other words, the portraits have some dynamism to them, and with their bright hand-coloring and diminutive scale, richly deserve the adjective of "exquisite". Scarce, with the only copies showing on OCLC First Search at the Koninklijke Bibliotheek of the...
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[Leporello] Schweizer Trachten. Costumes Suisses. Swiss Costums. Costumi Svizzeri

By: N/A

Price: $475.00

Seller ID: 006240

Binding: Marbled paper pastedown on thin boards. Slipcase.

Condition: Very Good

N.d., mid-19th century. 10 by 7 cm. 24 hand-colored panels. The illustrations stand out, among such costume-oriented leporellos, for their precise detailing, and also each features two or three men or women, generally engaged in some activity, and so they have a bit more dynamism than the norm for such fare. One can say that these are modest genre paintings. Costumes represent various cantons or cities -- Uri, Vaud, Valais, Appenzell, Bale, etc. The colors are especially vivid and bright. Scarce -- no copies located on OCLC First Search. The leporello proper has a glossy marbled paper...
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Album of Twenty Small Swiss Watercolored Views

By: N/A

Price: $1,350.00

Seller ID: 006416

Binding: Full Morocco. Two brass clasps.

Bookplate of Sir Oswald Mosley, the 5th Baronet, and the father of the notorious British Fascist! The artwork all by one hand, and almost surely done by a Mosley. 8vo. 23 by 19 cm. Ten leaves of heavy card, each with a watercolor measuring 10 by 9 cm mounted into a window on both the recto and verso. Watercolors are classic Swiss views, rendered by a deft amateur hand. They exude a naive charm, which is not to say that they do not capture some quite fine detail. Generally people, the size of specks, serve to provide scale, as do such things as boats and carts -- the time tested props of...
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Voyage Pittoresque en Suisse en Savoie et Sur les Alpes

By: Begin, Emile. Illustrations by Rouargue Freres

Price: $575.00

Publisher: Paris, Belin-Leprieur et Morizot: 1851

Seller ID: 004266

Binding: Decorated Cloth

Condition: Very Good

Gorgeous blindstamped, gilt and colored decorated cloth binding with Tell statue centerpiece and floral surround! 4to. 27 by 18 cm. viii, 560 pp. 24 plates, of which eight are hand-colored. Moderate amount of foxing on text leaves and steel engraved plate margins, as inevitable with the paper stock employed. The color plates are cleaner and fresher looking. Joints repaired.
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Chesa Dr. Ruppanner Samedan

By: Bernhard, Lucie (1894 - ?)

Price: $675.00

Publisher: Samedan, Switzerland,

Seller ID: 002915

Binding: Vellum

Condition: Fine

N.d., circa 1930s. Two poems about a Sanitarium opened by Dr. Rupanner in Samedan, which is close to St. Moritz in the southeast corner of Switzerland, accompanied by watercolor vignettes. The title page is given over to a fine watercolor of the grand four story house, which housed the hospital. It would appear that Bernhard was a patient in the hospital, and in gratitude she indited the poem and decorated its four pages with vignettes that echo the subjects brought up in the verses. The poems themselves are written in a neat, however inscrutable, hand, with a cursive style no longer in f...
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Costumes de Suisse

By: Braun, Adolphe

Price: $2,250.00

Publisher: Lucerne and Dornach (Alsace), respectively, Fortune Aubert; Agence de la Maison Ad. Braun:

Seller ID: 002471

Scarce collection of photographic costume plates, with no copies located on OCLC. N.d., circa 1869. With 36 mounted photographs of Swiss women in provincial dress and either engaged in prototypical activities are surrounded by the paraphernalia of such activities. In a neat cursive in the lower margin is written the city that the photo was taken, and so each woman shown is in a sense representative, in her dress and activity, of the named place. Adolphe Braun (1812 - 1877) was a French photographer known for floral studies, Parisian street scenes and Alpine landscapes. In 1855 he was awa...
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Tartarin of the Alps. With Illustrations

By: Daudet, Alphonse

Price: $4.00

Publisher: New York, Thomas Y. Crowell & Co.: 1894

Seller ID: 003554

Binding: Leather

Condition: Fair

12mo. Spine dry and partly perished. Cracking. Pages clean. A reading copy.
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Tartarin sur les Alpes. Nouveaux Exploits du Heros Tarasconnais.

By: Daudet, Alphonse. Illustrated by Rossi, Aranda, Myrbach, Montenard, de Beaumont

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Paris, Ernest Flammarion:

Seller ID: 003546

Binding: Quarter Morocco, Marbled Boards

Condition: Very Good

N.d., circa 1890. Leaves are age toned. Light wear to cover.
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Das Chorgestuhl in der Schweiz

By: Ganz, Paul Leonhard and Theodor Seeger

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Frauenfeld, Verlag Huber & Co. Aktiengesellschaft: 1946

Seller ID: 003630

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Near Fine

4to. 31 by 24.5 cm. 125 pp. 128 pp. of photo plates. Clean, tight copy.
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A Little Journey to France and Switzerland. For Home and School, Intermediate and Upper Grades

By: George, Marian M., editor

Price: $8.00

Publisher: Chicago, A. Flanagan Company: 1902

Seller ID: 003553

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Very Good

8vo. Slight shake to book.
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Histoire et Description De La Suisse et Du Tyrol

By: Golbery, Ph. De

Price: $125.00

Publisher: Paris, Firmen Didot Freres: 1838

Seller ID: 000422

Binding: Decorated Cloth

Condition: Very Good

8vo. 462 pp. + folding map + 80 plates for Switzerland, 12 for Tyrol. Text and plates generallly clean, with a few plates having foxing. A little rubbing on boards by joints, but binding generally well preserved. Overall, at least Very Good, if not better.
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A Family Flight Through France, Germany, Norway and Switzerland

By: Hale, Rev. E. E. and Miss Susan Hale

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Boston, D. Lothrop and Company: 1881

Seller ID: 001082

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. 405 pp and fully illustrated. Part of travel series with light conversational tone. Some soilage on spine. Clean interior.
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Costumes Suisses [Schweizer-Trachten-Bilder von Wehrli A.-G., Kilchberg-Zurich]

By: Heierli, Julie; Vorwort von Dr. H. Lehmann, Direktor des Schweizerischen Landesmuseums in Zurich

Price: $100.00

Publisher: Zurich, Th. O. Studer-Schlapfer:

Seller ID: 001413

Binding: Wraps and Box

Condition: Near Fine

N.d., circa 1900 to 1920. 49 postcards of Swiss folk dress costume using colored photographs of local people. Captions on back or occasionally in corner of photo indicated the canton of origin. Regarding the pamphlet: 36 pp. Oblong, same dimensions as the cards, which are standard postcard-sized, or 14 by 9 cm, 5.5 by 3.5 inches. The box of cards was surely a souvenir item sold at the Schweizerisches Landesmuseum in Zurich which is a preeminent art and cultural institution in the country to this day, with particular strength in the decorative arts and ethnological matters relating to Swi...
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