Switzerland; its scenery, history, and literary associations / by Oscar Kuhns Professor in Wesleyan University. Author of "The German and Swiss Settlements of Colonial Pennsylvania: A Study of the So-Called Pennsylvania Dutch"; "The Sense of the Infinite," etc. Illustrated.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kuhns, Oscar, 1856-1929.

Contributor:

Armstrong, Margaret, 1867-1944, binding designer.

Nick Malgieri Culinary Archive and Library (University of Pennsylvania)

Culinary Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Switzerland--Description and travel.

Switzerland.

Travel.

Penn Provenance:

Malgieri, Nick (donor) (Malgieri Collection copies 1-3)

Physical Description:

4 unnumbered pages, xii, 294 pages, 2 unnumbered pages, 32 unnumbered leaves of plates (1 folded) : illustrations, map ; 22 cm

Edition:

[First edition].

Place of Publication:

New York : Thomas Y. Crowell & Co. Publishers, [1910]

Contents:

The land and the people

The mountain glory and the mountain gloom

The outskirts of the mountain world

The birthplace of Swiss liberty

Bern and its environs

The Bernese Oberland

Mountain passes, railroads and tunnels

In the heart of the Alps

Chamonix and its environs

Geneva and its lake.

Notes:

Title page printed in red and black within single-ruled black border.

"Published September, 1910."

Includes index.

Teal cloth binding with gold, white and purple decoration on cover and spine signed MA [Margaret Armstrong]. Top edge gilt stained.

Local Notes:

Nick Malgieri Culinary Archive and Library copies 1-3 presented to the Penn Libraries in 2015 by Nick Malgieri.

Malgieri Collection copy 2: dust jacket retained.

Malgieri Collection copies 1 & 2 have unopened leaves.

Malgieri Collection copy 2 has plate opposite page 102 wanting.

Malgieri Collection copy 3 is "Published September, 1910. Second Edition".

Other Format:

Online version: Kuhns, Oscar, 1856-1929. Switzerland.

OCLC:

382059