Item 108 - James Coulman Ross: "Journal of a tour in Switzerland, &c, &c, during the summer of the year 1864"

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Add. MS c/108

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James Coulman Ross: "Journal of a tour in Switzerland, &c, &c, during the summer of the year 1864"

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  • [1864] (Creation)

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1 vol. with 2 folding maps and 1 folding table

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Ross, James Coulman (1844-1916) clergyman
(1844-1916)

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Trinity College Library, Cambridge

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Purchased from an unidentified bookseller, 1964.

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Incomplete illustrated fair copy of a travel journal which stops in the middle of chapter 4 of a projected 9 chapters. MS title page continues, 'Illustrated with plates, vignettes, plans, and a map of the route taken from the time of entering Switzerland to the time of leaving it at Basle; by James Coulman Ross; of Trinity College, Cambridge; Life member of the British Association for the Advancement of Science.' With a contents page that projects chapters and plates not completed here; present is a folding panorama map from the Aeggischorn and from the Mettelhorn, a folding map of the route in Switzerland, and a folding table, 'Notes from the thermometer, aneroid, & barometer, copied from observations taken by Rev. Geo. C. Hodgkinson'. Ross travelled with George Christopher Hodgkinson, George Frederick Hodgkinson, George James Spence Hodgkinson, and Grosvenor Hodgkinson.

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      Spine label "Tour, 1864"

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