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TYNDALL, John (1820-1893):
Mountaineering in 1861. A vacation tour.
London, Longmans, Green, 1862, in-8°, X + 105 p., with 2 engraved plates of which one in frontispiece, beautiful dark blue half morocco binding, spine richly gilt, gilt edge, nice copy, in a signed binding ‘Hugh Hopkins, Glasgow’.
Reference : 29241aaf
First edition. This book forms a natural sequel to the first descriptive part of the «Glaciers of the Alps». The two engraved plates show drawings of the Weisshorn from the Riffel, and an attractive view of the Matterhorn. Cox, Classics in the literature of Mountaineering n° 15; Perret mentions this work but does not list it separately. Image disp.
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Harteveld Rare Books Ltd.
M. Ben Harteveld
rue des Alpes, 5
1700 Fribourg
Switzerland
41 (0)26 3223808
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Mountaineering in 1861. A vacation tour.
1862, in-8vo, 6 leaves + 1 engraved front (Weisshorn) + 105 p . (+ 1 white) + 8 p. (Publ. catalogue) + 1 engr. plate (the attractive view of the Matterhorn). Original brown clothbinding, title gilt on spine. Fine copy.
First edition. This book forms a natural sequel to the first descriptive part of the «Glaciers of the Alps». The engraved plate shows a drawing of the Weisshorn from the Riffel / In this volume Tyndall's climb of the Weisshorn is published. Cox, Classics in the literature of Mountaineering n° 15; Perret mentions this work but does not list it separately. Image disp.
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