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Physical description: XII, 573 S. : Kt.. - 7. ed., corr. and enlarged

Publisher: Murray

Notations: Nebent.: Murray's hand-book southern Germany. - Hand -Book southern Germany

Subject heading: g.Süddeutschland ; z.Geschichte 1855 ; f.Führer

Location mark: I 124.216

Intern ID: 37775

. Near this church, flowing out of 7 is, is the “holy spring,” to which ROUTE 150 .—HEILBRONN. 11 city is said to owe its origin, and from which it derives its name,'being in the century Town mil (Rathhaus—1540), with a complicated clock (lb-9), con tains among the records deposited in • several Imperial Charters and lapa. Bulls, also a declaration of war {1' eluie- ■* . ^ , yj, „ III«! \ R C-HVIV y. ; “6®*"^ the town from Got/, of Bernchingen, the Knight with the Iron liana, whose history is so well

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1864

¬The¬ Dolomite Mountains : excursions through Tyrol, Carinthia, Carniola, & Friuli in 1861, 1862, & 1863 ; with a geological chapter and pictorial illustrations from original drawings on the spot

Page 75 of 600

Author: Gilbert, Josiah ; Churchill, George C. / by Josiah Gilbert, and G. C. Churchill

Publisher: Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts, & Green

Physical description: XX, 576 S. : Ill., Kt.

Subject heading: g.Dolomiten ; f.Reisebericht 1861-1863

Location mark: II A-4.101

Intern ID: 134614

crescent corve of thè Schiern plateau, now lying behind me. Beyond thè green rim, to thè sonfch-east, appeared thè culminating peak of thè whole distriet, thè Marmolata (11,200 feet),f with ita flattish snowy dome, ending in a sheer preci pi ce on ita southern side, and ninni ng luto long glacier si opes on thè northern, To thè north, thè high grassy mound of thè Puflafcsch Àlp, a contili uation of thè Seisser Alp, preventori alì view beyond itself : but thè whole interval between it ■ and thè Schiern

to thè south-west allowed thè distant horizon to be visible, and thè entire quadrant was filled up with thè snow-fields and peaks of thè Ad&mello, thè ■ öertler, thè CEtzthol, and thè Stnbay groups. To thè north-eagt a depression in thè Alp, ending in a deep . ratine that carries off some of ifcs pi enti fui surface-water • 9,955 feet filmo thè »ea, accordine to Trinker, t Ita higher and more -western peak irne been latelj determined to be : 11,466 fett above thè wm.

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1874

¬The¬ valleys of Tyrol : their traditions and customs and how to visit them

Page 399 of 491

romana© . originem. , tamen' . cum , longa . usurpatione , in . possessionem . eius . fuisse . dicatur . et . ita , permixtum , cum tridentinis . ut , diduci . ab , Is . sine , gravi . splendi . municipi . iniuria . non , possit . patior . eos , m , eo . i ure in , quo . esse . existimaverunt . permanere . beneficio . meo , -0 * quidem , libentius , quod . plerisque , ex . eo . genere , hominum . etiam . militare , in . praetorio . meo . dicuntur .. quidam . vero . ordines . quoque . duxisse

. nonnulli . collecti - in . decurias . romae . res iudi caro . Quod , beneficium , Is . ita , tribuo , ut . quaecumque . tanquam . cives . romani . gesserunt , egeruntquo , aut . inter , se . aut . cum . tridentinis . alis ve . ratam . esse . iubeat . nom inaquo . ea . que . habuerunt . antea . tanquam . cives , romani . ita . habere . Is . permittam . A fragment of an altar was found at thè sanie time, witfa the following words on it :— sati;u.vo sac: r L. PAPI BITIS i OPUS Livo is the first village

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1874

¬The¬ valleys of Tyrol : their traditions and customs and how to visit them

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of S. Vigilius, and the seat of the great council of thè Church, are reckoned by ita people their greatest glories ; and they delight to trace a parallel between their city and £ great Borne.’ They reckon that it was founded in the time of Tar quinius Priscus byacolony of Etruscans, under a leader 1 The Passion Plays of thè Brixenthal, however, are reckoned the 'best, The performer» gather and rehearse in the spring, and go round from village to village through the Summer months, only, as amphi- theatres are

improvi sed in the open. 1 It may he worth mentioning, as an instance of how the contagion of populär customs is transm itted, that on onquiring into some very curious grotesque ceremonies performed in T'jGJifi afc clO'S© of tlio cap- nevalj and called ita ‘ boriai,’ I learnt that it did not appear to be a Tirolean custom, but had been int.rodueed by the soldi©« of th© garrisco who, for a long time past. had been taken from. thè Slave province» of the Austrian .Empire, and thus a Slavo popular custom

ha» buon grafted on to Tirol, Wälsch-Tirol, however, liaa ita own customs for closing thè carnevai, toc. In some places it is biirnt in effigy : in some, dismissed with thè foliowing dancing-song (Schnodnhüpfi) greeting, Evviva carnevai r Chelige manca ancor el sai : El carneral che vien Lo saleram più ben !

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1856

Sight-seeing in Germany and the Tyrol in the autumn of 1855

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Subject heading: g.Deutschland ; f.Reisebericht 1855 g.Österreich ; f.Reisebericht 1855 g.Tirol ; f.Reisebericht 1855

is a most magmbcent ai:i d picturesque feature in thè landseape. ts on to Wards thè valley is like a section of a Titanio py - but a pyramid still possessi aU -nety of ^acefuluess and softness which nature alone can gire ibe outhnes of grand forme. I reached Salzburg in sufficient tane to be able to ^ey thè town in a generai way as to ita topo- ^Phical relations, the character of ita streets and ^hitecture, and also to examine the interior of some « ita churches. I was also able to talee advantage

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1856

Sight-seeing in Germany and the Tyrol in the autumn of 1855

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Subject heading: g.Deutschland ; f.Reisebericht 1855 g.Österreich ; f.Reisebericht 1855 g.Tirol ; f.Reisebericht 1855

of nature. Such a writer is really a national possession. He adda to our störe of knowledge and enjoy- ment.'— Leader. With Eighteen Illustratione drawn by the Author, and “ This hook may be takem up with cqual pleasure whether the reader be aequainted or not with the previous volnmes, and no special ertistic culture is neccasary in order to enjoy ita esoellences w profit by ita suggestiona, Every one who cares about nature, or poetry, or thè story of human development—every one who has a tinge

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1874

¬The¬ valleys of Tyrol : their traditions and customs and how to visit them

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lattar one into it ; but, euriously enough, in thè note to thè last-named page of Mr, Cox’s work, he happens aetually to establish an intrinsic identity of origin in thè two stori es. The Three Wishes story has also a strangely localized home in thè Oetzthal, which, though properly be- longing to thè division of North Tirol, I prefer tacite bere, for thè sake of ito analogies. Ita porticiilar home is in thè eo-callcd Thal Veni, ou thè frozen borders of thè Gletscher described by Weber, as appalling

to a degne in ite' loneliness, and in thè roaring of ita torrente, and th© Siena rugged inaccessibility of its peaks. Here, he says, three Selige Fräulein (Weber, like Schneller, translatos everything inexorably into German ; this may have been an Enguana) bave their abode in a sump- tuous subterranean palacc, which no mortai might reacb. They are also called die drei Feyen, he says, forming a further Identification with th© normal legend, but he does not account for thè penetration of the French word

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Geography, Travel guides

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1864

¬The¬ Dolomite Mountains : excursions through Tyrol, Carinthia, Carniola, & Friuli in 1861, 1862, & 1863 ; with a geological chapter and pictorial illustrations from original drawings on the spot

Page 72 of 600

Author: Gilbert, Josiah ; Churchill, George C. / by Josiah Gilbert, and G. C. Churchill

Publisher: Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts, & Green

Physical description: XX, 576 S. : Ill., Kt.

Subject heading: g.Dolomiten ; f.Reisebericht 1861-1863

Location mark: II A-4.101

Intern ID: 134614

of Rotzen. One of thè villages on that side, Lenginoos, is remarkable for ita earth-pyramids, con- sisting of red porphyry mud, with sharply angular frag- ments of granite and mica siate imbedded—thè reraains of a lateral moraine of thè great Eisach Glacier, and left stranded there on its retreat at thè termination of thè Glacial period. The o ccasionai distant h o ornine of cannon indicated that o thè day 5 s fest.ivities below were proceeding. At last thè Àlp plateau was reached, and in a moment thè

Hohe Schiern fronted me high in air, looming big, black, and solid, a thin cloud gìrthing its middle. This was its western face, and I had to skirt thè northern side to reach a deeply lyiog narrow ravine, that separates ita eastem precipices fi-ora. thè second and higher plateau of thè Seisser Àlp. The level summit of thè Schiern itsel'f forme thè third and high est plateau of all, standing aloft and isolated, for it is connected with its nearest neighhours in thè rear—thè Mittagskogel and Rosszähn

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1874

¬The¬ valleys of Tyrol : their traditions and customs and how to visit them

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ordered fehat white thè si de facing tlie roacl frotn Italy sìionìd be a Trmmpk-pforle^ and recali by ita has-rcliefs the glarl occasion whicli eaused ita ercct-ion, the side facili' thè town shoukl be a Twwrpforte, and sei forth the melanchoty conclusimi of the samo, The wholewas execnted by Tiroloan artista, and of Tirolean inarbles. Bhe foiinded also a for the maintenance of twelve poor ladies of noble birth, who, w ithout taking vows, hound ibernaci ves to wear mourning and pray for thè soni

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1877

Tyrol and the Tyrolese : the people and the land in their social, sporting, and mountaineering aspects

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Author: Baillie-Grohman, William A. / by W. A. Baillie Grohman

Place: Leipzig

Publisher: Tauchnitz

Physical description: 278 S.. - [2. ed.]

CH. AP TER IX. THE BLACKCOCK. The Caperceli and the Blackcock—Fonmerly pienti fui in Scotland — Black cock Shooting difficiitt Sport—When thè Blackcock is shot in Tyrcl— The Love Song— Ita three distinet Notes—Keen Sight and Ear of the Game—Setting out on a Black cock shooting' Expedition— #/ Lois”— His Home—Starting once more—Snowhoops and. Cratn, poi» in 'use — À nove! Sledge and speedy Descent—Taktng up Position— “Early to Bed and early to Rise” —Appreseli of fite Blackcock—Anspringen— How

Knifeback—Reaching the Top—Unique View - Heiligen Blut—Ita discomfited Inhabitante—“A slip» and. we art all kille, d”—Our Return —Five fenushing Mortale . . • * * * - * - *5 6

Location mark: I A-4.076

Intern ID: 160033

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1877

Tyrol and the Tyrolese : the people and the land in their social, sporting, and mountaineering aspects

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Author: Baillie-Grohman, William A. / by W. A. Baillie Grohman

Place: Leipzig

Publisher: Tauchnitz

Physical description: 278 S.. - [2. ed.]

; ita Interior - ita primitive Utensili—Merry Life 'od high’*—The creative Genius of the Tyrolese—Their musical 'Talents, quiek Ear, and fine Voices—Their UnwiJlingness to «subibit their Musical Talenta hefore Strängen—Passionate Love for the Mimic Art—Passion Plays and Thiiimtrts—An odd Play. . . . . . . . tj

Location mark: I A-4.076

Intern ID: 160033

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1856

Sight-seeing in Germany and the Tyrol in the autumn of 1855

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Subject heading: g.Deutschland ; f.Reisebericht 1855 g.Österreich ; f.Reisebericht 1855 g.Tirol ; f.Reisebericht 1855

silver, gilt and enamelled, and mlaid Throughont with precious stones. Notwithst andere what was said above, I suspect t a Jo} rn Knox would bave hardly withheld bis hammer a *A axe from some of thè things to be seen in ibis ^apel. though, certainly, with all ita splendono it stili Possesses a kmd of severe simplicity distmgmshmg it ^om. Catholic churchcs. Circumstanc.es prevented me from seeing thè Kunst- iannner in thè attic story. Ita contents are said to very interesting, and will, in a short

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1856

Sight-seeing in Germany and the Tyrol in the autumn of 1855

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Subject heading: g.Deutschland ; f.Reisebericht 1855 g.Österreich ; f.Reisebericht 1855 g.Tirol ; f.Reisebericht 1855

valley, to hotli the Gosan lakes, and so effect a consideratile saving of time, I think thè complete expedition might be managed by an active traveUer in a single day. 1 This, however, is not the real origin of thè Traun. Ita soiiree, m rather sources, are in thè Styrian mouutains, whence it flows iato th« Hallstadt lake, at ita soutk-eaatern extrem ity.

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Geography, Travel guides

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1864

¬The¬ Dolomite Mountains : excursions through Tyrol, Carinthia, Carniola, & Friuli in 1861, 1862, & 1863 ; with a geological chapter and pictorial illustrations from original drawings on the spot

Page 390 of 600

Author: Gilbert, Josiah ; Churchill, George C. / by Josiah Gilbert, and G. C. Churchill

Publisher: Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts, & Green

Physical description: XX, 576 S. : Ill., Kt.

Subject heading: g.Dolomiten ; f.Reisebericht 1861-1863

Location mark: II A-4.101

Intern ID: 134614

for no northern lungs could give forili notes of suoli ringing mtensity—enough almost to split thè northern tympanum. The crowd that had seon us arrive assembled again under thè gateway to see us depart on our incomprehen- sible errand to Rigolato ; and thè driver, as he mounted thè box, muttered ‘ Mother of Orod ! ’—in prospect, I sup pose, of the tr-uly ‘cattiva strada ’ whieh led there. Just beyond thè town, a long bridge crossed the stream-—or rather ita wasteful bed—which, descending from

of Villa—where a single rocky bill, like Dumbarton, bears on ita summit a small church, seen from afar down the valley —we turned away northward, Then the road was often like a Sequestern! English lane—only that the hazel-nut hedges were lined hy a peculiar wattling, which made thern look neater than ours—and the scenery possessed an

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1856

Sight-seeing in Germany and the Tyrol in the autumn of 1855

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Subject heading: g.Deutschland ; f.Reisebericht 1855 g.Österreich ; f.Reisebericht 1855 g.Tirol ; f.Reisebericht 1855

of keen and’accurate Observation, of » trae and subtic judgmeut and refined sense of beauty, joined with so mach carnestness, so noble a sense of the pnrposes and busmess of art, and such a command of rieh and glowing langußgc, that it cannot but toll: powerfully in producine a more religious view of the iises of architecture, and a deeper insight mto ita artistìc principies ,”—Guardian “A livcly, poetica!, mul thoughtful hook; rich in reti ned criticism and glowing eloquence. Mr. Rnskin s poetry

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Sight-seeing in Germany and the Tyrol in the autumn of 1855

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Subject heading: g.Deutschland ; f.Reisebericht 1855 g.Österreich ; f.Reisebericht 1855 g.Tirol ; f.Reisebericht 1855

mode of human existence, as well as fai ita Information upon thè Indians of Oregon, —Spectator.

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1929

Wagner's guide to Innsbruck and its surroundings

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Author: Schwaighofer, Hermann / [Hermann Schwaighofer]

Place: Innsbruck

Publisher: Wagner

Physical description: 68 S. : zahlr. Ill., Kt.. - 2. ed.

Subject heading: g.Innsbruck <Region>;f.Führer

Location mark: I 59.982

Intern ID: 318794

off in a curve to right and left, we enter Herzog-Friedrich-Strasse (Duke Frederick's Street) and in so doing, enter Innsbruck of the Middle Ages with all its architectural secrecies. The street is followed up on both sides by vaulted arched passages reminding us of the 'Lauben' in Ita lian towns (they are called so in Innsbruck too), and these toge ther with the numerous old houses with decorated bay-windows the lost Town Tower, and the Golden Roof, afford an extremely

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Fiction

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1876

Holidays in Tyrol : Kufstein, Klobenstein and Paneveggio

Page 17 of 385

Author: White, Walter / by Walter White

Publisher: Chapman and Hall

Physical description: XVII, 361 S. : Kt.

Subject heading: g.Tirol ; s.Urlaubsreise ; f.Belletristische Darstellung

Location mark: II A-4.164

Intern ID: 155553

CHAPTER XLII. Once more hy thè Piavo.—Signs of thc Eartbquake,—A Grocor’s Sign. More Earthquake.—Cadore.—Signs of Progress.—Venas.—Landslips. —Cortina.—Feutelstoir.. — Enviable Appetites.—Schluderback and Landro.—Crowds.—Höllensteinerthal.—The Pusterthal.-—Toblacher- feld,—Drau and liienz.—Six White Blouses.—Niederdorf.—The Post and ita Praises.—American Character.—Landscapes.—Bailway Engi neering Triumphs.—Live Ground.—Franzensfeste CHAPTER XLXII. Another Way Home.—The Zigzaga.—-A Farewell

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Sight-seeing in Germany and the Tyrol in the autumn of 1855

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Subject heading: g.Deutschland ; f.Reisebericht 1855 g.Österreich ; f.Reisebericht 1855 g.Tirol ; f.Reisebericht 1855

a steepled village, while deep in tbe bollow still rusbed on tbe rapid Etscb, and beyond and over all rose np in the horizon a ridge of loftymountains, of elegant outline and broken into peaks. Bnt tbese ebarms did not last very long. As we proceeded, tbe valley became gradually rougber, coarser, and tarn er ■ its sweetness and beauty gradually disap- peared, leaving us, bowever, still tbe ebarm of tbe rapid, river and ita mountain barriera. P assin g tbrougb several otber small towns, Natur ns, Latsch

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Subject heading: g.Deutschland ; f.Reisebericht 1855 g.Österreich ; f.Reisebericht 1855 g.Tirol ; f.Reisebericht 1855