The Maritime Alps and their seaboard / by the author of “Vera” [i.e. Charlotte Louisa Hawkins Dempster] in two volumes

Dempster, Charlotte Louisa Hawkins (1835-1913)

1895, New and enlarged copyright edition. Leipzig : Bernhard Tauchnitz. Very good copy bound in the original gilt-blocked vellum. Gilt bands to spine, with gilt borders to panels. All edges gilt. Spine bands and panel edges somewhat dulled and dust-toned as with age. Previous owner's inscription to title page. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 0 pages; Physical desc.: 2 v. in 1 (279, 295p) ; 16cm. Subject: Maritime Alps (France and Italy). Alps - History - Geography - Culture - 19th century. Notes: “Baron Tauchnitz, before issuing a reprint of what is now an old book ... has been so good as to say that I may add a few pages in order to bring the work up to date.” [Author's note to Appendix to vol. 2]. Series: Collection of British authors - Tauchnitz edition, v. 2336-2337. Item #182025

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