Sir John Lubbock: Scenery of Switzerland and the causes to which it is due.

mittlerer Zustand, Gebrauchs- und Alterungsspuren: Band 1: Rücken oben und unten etwas defekt - Band 2: Rücken aufgerissen und Buch in 2 Teile zerfallen und Bindung gelockert, Deckel mit Notiz - beide: Reihentitel mit altem Besitzervermerk - Umschläge und Seitenschnitt gebräunt - Seiten sauber und ordentlich - einige Seiten etwas eselsohrig und mit kleinen Blessuren an den Rändern, In the summer of 1861 I had the pleasure of spending a short holiday in Switzerland with Huxley and Tyndall. Tyndall and I ascended the Galenstock, and started with Benen, who afterwards lost his life on the Haut de Cry, up the Jungfrau, but were stopped by an accident to one of our porters, who fell into a deep crevasse, from which we had some difficulty in extricating him, as Tyndall has graphically described in his Hours of Exercise on the Alps. From that day to this many of my holidays have been spent in the Alps. On them I have enjoyed many and many delightful days ... - Geology - Origin of Mountains - Mountains of Switzerland - Snow and Ice - Former Extension of Glaciers - Valleys - Action of Rivers - Directions of Rivers - Lakes - Influence of the Strata upon Scenery - Jura - Central Plain - Outer-Alps - Central Massives - Lake of Geneva - Massif of Mont Blanc - Valais - Bernese Oberland - Upper Aar - Zürich and Glarus - Rhine - Reuss - Ticino - Engadine - General Summary, kartoniert, ca. 12 x 16,5, 559 (279 + 280) Seiten mit 153 Bildern