Getting lost heading for the Krammets Berg. Bavaria back in 1853 with some lovely illustrations of the Alps and the chamois the man who wrote this memoir went to Bavaria to hunt. It resides in the stacks of the Boston Public Library where it is no doubt covered with dust.

Frontispiece – Chamois. Page 6 of Charles Boner’s 1853 work Chamois Hunting in the Mountains of Bavaria. Theodor Horschelt, Munich, illustrator. Published in London by Chapman and Hall. Collections of the Boston Public Library. In the public domain due to age. https://archive.org/details/chamoishuntingin00bone/page/n5/mode/1up

A ‘Graben.’ Page 205 of Charles Boner’s 1853 work Chamois Hunting in the Mountains of Bavaria. Theodor Horschelt, Munich, illustrator. J. B. Kuhn and F Hohe, Munich, lithographers. Published in London by Chapman and Hall. Collections of the Boston Public Library. In the public domain due to age. https://archive.org/details/chamoishuntingin00bone/page/n205/mode/1up

Chamois – Vignette. Page 366 of Charles Boner’s 1853 work Chamois Hunting in the Mountains of Bavaria. Theodor Horschelt, Munich, illustrator. J. B. Kuhn and F Hohe, Munich, lithographers. Published in London by Chapman and Hall. Collections of the Boston Public Library. In the public domain due to age. https://archive.org/details/chamoishuntingin00bone/page/366/mode/1up

Cottage in the Bavarian Highlands – Vignette. Page 210 of Charles Boner’s 1853 work Chamois Hunting in the Mountains of Bavaria. Theodor Horschelt, Munich, illustrator. J. B. Kuhn and F Hohe, Munich, lithographers. Published in London by Chapman and Hall. Collections of the Boston Public Library. In the public domain due to age. https://archive.org/details/chamoishuntingin00bone/page/210/mode/1up

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