London Smith, Elder & Co, 1874, in-8vo, IX (+ 1) + 367 p. (+ 1 white) + 2 leaves + 1 map in rear pocket, original blue clothbound, book cover with gilt central image of a walker in front of a mountain (Matterhorn?), lifting his alpenstock with his hat on top, spine with gilt title and edelweiss, fine copy.
Reference : 118932aaf
Frist edition. The often missing large engraved map here present: Switzerland and the Alps of Savoy and Piemont by Keith Johnston. Engr. by W. & A.K. Johnston, Edinburgh. A very fine copy. BH II, 528; de Beer, Travellers 348; Perret -; Wäber 97.
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London Smith , Elder, 1873, -74, -75, in-8vo, XVI + 271 + 1 (advertisement) / X + 367 p.+ large folding colour map of Switzerland and the Alps of Savoy & Piedmont in pocket at end / 368 p. 1) Êx-libris ,Rucksack-Club’ / 2) Horace Walker + Ex libris Peter E. Obergfell, gilt decorated cloth. Original publisher’s bindings, some rubbings and or staines.
The account of a tour through the mountains of Switzerland, mostly on foot in 1872. The author started at Zermatt, explored Saas and its glacier, crossed Monte Moro and the Simplon to the Rhone Glacier and finished in the Bernede Oberland. „Alpinism is also a natural and healthy protest in some was against the dull drawing-room routine... / 2) About explorations in southern and central Switzerland / 3) thelast part of Zincke’s triology concerning the eastern Alps of Switzerland and completing an unique view of the Alps during the 1870’s.Offered here as a complet set. First editions. Image disp.
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