On Swiss Alpine Roads / Sur Les Routes Alpestres Suisses
Published by Saurer Company, Arbon, Switzerland, not dated
- Softcover
- Used
Seller: Gerald Baker, Bristol, United KingdomGerald Baker
AbeBooks seller since September 14, 2011
Association member: PBFA
View this seller's itemsCondition: Used - Very good
US$ 61.96
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[1927], colour frontispiece + 52pp + [34]pp adverts, text in French & English, photographs in the text and full page, 7 colour illustrations, card covers. The book starts with a chapter In the Old Days and Nowadays which provides a brief history of road & rail travel in the Swiss Alps and moves on to Mountain Passes which details a number of road tours in the Alps. It concludes with a chapter on Postal Motor Car Service in the Alps and the Saurer Works which gives a history of the Saurer Company, founded in the 1850s and based in Arbon, who then manufactured cars, lorries and buses - such is the detail of this that we think that the book was either commissioned or published by them. A remarkable item we have not seen before, the tipped on colour illustrations by Reber (?) are a delight.
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Gerald Baker
Bristol, United Kingdom
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A member of the Provincial Booksellers Fairs Association (PBFA), I have been a nearly full time bookseller since the mid 2000s working from home in Bristol. I concentrate on books on transport (mainly railways), industrial history, maritime, topography, the Beatles & other groups from the 1960s and interesting ephemera. I particularly specialise in official publicity of the British railway companies. I sell on ABE, on eBay under the moniker 'mr.publicity' and at book and transport collectors' fairs. I keep a modest stock of quality material which is constantly changing - I spend a good deal of my time travelling around the UK seeking out and acquiring new stock. …
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Aviation, Industrial History, Maritime, Motoring, Railways, Transport, Official publicity of the British railway companies, The Beatles, Topography, TransportAssociation member
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Gerald Baker
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Name: Gerald Baker
Address: 28 Beaconsfield Road, Clifton, Bristol BS8 2TS
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