C.P.
Switzerland 1890. Folio, half leather, upper board loose but attached; approx. 100 pages, of which 20 are MSS, the rest featuring photographs and photographic prints, travel brochures, maps and similar ephemera.
A heady and excitable journal of a child from Abbeyleix's first trip abroad with family, through the Alps from Switzerland to Italy. The journal records the tourist's journey through delightful views and travel stories. The account includes a description of a trip on the Rigibahn rack railway, with two accompanying photographs of the railway in action, which appears to have been more interesting than the English church service in Lucerne. Other towns mentioned include Bale, Bellagio, and Pontresina.
Together with another photo album, dated in MSS 1880 on the first page, of European tourist scenes and landscapes, folio, decorative cloth, c. 35 leaves with varying numbers of images on recto only, including the Rigi-bahn, the baths of Pfeffers, and the old streets of San remo. [2]