The Lake Dwellings Of Switzerland And Other Parts Of Europe - PREFACE - WHEN about to visit Switzerland the summer before last, I was naturally desirous of obtaining information as to the antiquities discovered of late years in what have been rightly designated, by a well-known antiquarian friend, as the wonderful Pfddbauten Habitations lacustres, or lake dwellings. Some very excellent notices of them had appeared h English by Xr. Wylie, Sir John Lubbock, Bart. since then printcd with additional information in his late work ...
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The Lake Dwellings Of Switzerland And Other Parts Of Europe - PREFACE - WHEN about to visit Switzerland the summer before last, I was naturally desirous of obtaining information as to the antiquities discovered of late years in what have been rightly designated, by a well-known antiquarian friend, as the wonderful Pfddbauten Habitations lacustres, or lake dwellings. Some very excellent notices of them had appeared h English by Xr. Wylie, Sir John Lubbock, Bart. since then printcd with additional information in his late work, and Sir Charles Lyell, Bart. but stlU there secmcd a want of precisc and definite information respecting them. On arriving in Switzerland, I found that the ihditmts were fully aware of t.he rich archucologicd mine, which had been first brought into notice by Dr. Fcrdimnd KeUer, the excellent president of fio Antiquarim hsociation of Ziirich. The investigation of the various hke dellings is now carried on with n zcal and energy, which might b.e emulated with ailvantage by our own richer and more numerous societies. host all the museums of Switzerland now contain vduablc mllectionu of these antiquities there is hardly a native who is not fully alive to tlic value of these discoveries...........
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Second edition, greatly enlarged (first published in 1866). Small 4to. 2 volumes: xv, (1), 696; 27 pp., plus 206 plates. Some illustrations in text, frontispiece to volume one. Inscribed by the translator opposite the half-title to volume one. Archaeological explorations in the lake districts of Switzerland and elsewhere in Europe. Original gilt-stamped decorated green cloth (some repair to hinges in volume two). Very good. (1456).
