Letters from Italy. New and revised edition - The Alps and the Rhine. A series of Sketches. New and revised edition


By J.T. Headley


Published:  Baker and Scribner, New York, 1850.  FIRST EDITION.


2 volumes in one., pp. XVI, 224; (4), VII, 138.  Hardcover in original binding.  New revised edition of these two Headley volumes. The first volume consists of a series of travel letters to various Italian locations, relating to his visit to the peninsula in 1842-'43: Genoa, Livorno, Civitavecchia, Naples, Pompeii, Paestum, Salerno, Castellamare, Capua, Rome, Tivoli, Terni, Perugia, Florence, Pisa, Milan, Pavia, Alessandria, etc. The second work consists of a picturesque description of numerous places in the Alps (especially Swiss) or next course of the Rhine river: the Simplon, the Col di Balme, the Chamonix valley, Chillon, Friborg, Interlachen, the Righi, Basel, Strasbourg, Frankfurt, Wiesbaden, Cologne, etc. The Tyler (Walton, New York, 1813-Newburgh, New York, 1897), ecclesiastical, newspaper editor, historian (wrote monographs on Cromwell, Washington, Napoleon), polygraph and politician, served as New State Secretary of State York from 1856 to 1857. Not in Perret. 

A nice copy of this work.  Ex-Lib.

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