Baillie-Grohman, W.A.

The Land in the Mountains – Being an Account of the Past & Present of Tyrol, Its People and Its Castles. Illustrated with Eighty-Two Plates and Maps of Modern Tyrol and Ancient Raetia.

London, Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & Co. Ltd, 1907. 16 cm x 22.5 cm. Frontispiece, XXXI, 288 pages. Errata leaf opposite first page of Introduction. 2 colour maps within text. 80 illustrations in addition to frontispiece. Illustrations with captioned tissueguards. Hardcover [publisher’s original red cloth] with gilt lettering on spine. Design to front board. Gilt top edges. Deckled fore and tail edges. Good- condition. Board corners bumped and rubbed. Lengthy cracks to gutter to between rear pastedowns and endpapers with exposed cloth. Binding tender. Partially loose foxed frontispiece and tissueguard. Textblock still solid. Occasional foxing throughout. Interior unmarked.

Includes, for example, the following: Introduction by Charles Landis / Emperor Maximilian’s devotion to the chase – Queen Chistina of Sweden – Empress Maria Theresa’s reply / The Brenner Pass – The Plöcken Pass to Aquileia – Pons Drusi and the Gorge of the Eisack – The Reschen Scheideck and Jauffen passes / The Italianising of South Tyrol – The Veteranen Verein of Brandenberg / The Königs Schlösser of the Kings of Bavaria, and their tragic story – Hauenstein his ancestral stronghold -Churburg -Sigmundskron – Taufers – Tratzberg- Tyrol – Kufstein – Pinzenau / The First Appearance of the Frundsbergs as owners of Matzen in 1167 – Queen Elizabeth of Tyrol and her son Conradin, the last Hohenstaufen / Henry of Rottenburg / How the Landsknechte came to be formed / Appendix / Index etc.
William Adolph Baillie Grohman (1851–1921) was an Anglo-Austrian author of works on the Tyrol and the history of hunting, a big game sportsman, mountaineer, and a pioneer in the Kootenay region of British Columbia. (Wikipedia)

• Keywords: Alps · Alto Adige · Ancient · Ancient Rome · Austria · Castles · Europe · European History · History · Holy Roman Emperor · Holy Roman Empire · Italy · Kings and Queens, History · Library & Collection Building · Military History · Mountaineering – Collection · Mountaineering – Rare · Mountains · Südtirol · Tyrol
• Language: English
• Inventory Number: 120237AB