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From the Preface:

The Handbook for Switzerland was first issued in 1863 and is now in its twenty-seventh edition. The chief object of the book is to enable the traveller so to employ his time, his money, and his energy that he may derive the greatest amount of pleasure and instruction from his visit. The systematic arrangement of Baedeker’s handbooks has proved itself the most acceptable to travellers, and the most flattering testimony to its merits is that some places has been it had been adopted in other works.

The new edition has been thoroughly revised and in some places (especially in N. and W. Switzerland) enlarged. It is based on the personal observations of the Editor, and most of the country described has been repeatedly explored by him and his staff, with the result that it now embodies the most recent information, down to June 1928, obtained from the most trustworthy sources. …”


81 Maps, 30 Town Plans and 15 Panoramas.