Language: English
Published by Davos Printing Company, 1907
Seller: MAE Books, Dunoon, ARL, United Kingdom
First Edition
US$ 62.55
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Add to basketHardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Davos a Health Resort Green cloth on board faded gilt lettering heavy bumping at top and a nick out of the top of the spine. Some show through along the front spine edge. All edges red. Previous owners inscription on the first end paper. Internally the book is in remarkable condition and is clean and tidy throughout apart from some foxing towards the end. 6 reproductions in colour of paintings and 44 other illustrations. This book was designed to show the british medical profession the benefits of this health resort in the Swiss mountains there are chapters on The Practical Hints for doctors sending Patients to DaVos. Sport, The Fear of Infection at Davos,The Davos Peasantry and much more in the same vain. A scarce original first edition.
US$ 118.16
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Add to basketHardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First ed, Davos Printing Co, 1907. 8vo, [vi], iv, 316p. 6 chromolithographs and other attractive plates. New endpapers at some time, a VG clean copy in original cloth gilt. Davos, Switzerland, health benefits, winter sports and alpine flora. Scarce.