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The glaciers of the Alps, being a narrative of excursions and ascents, an account of the origin and phenomena of glaciers, and an exposition of the physical principles to which they are related. New edition.
London, Longmans, Green, 1896, in-8°, 1 frontispiece + XXVIII + 445 p., with 61 text illustrations, exlibris Peter E. Obergfell, beautiful dark blue half morocco binding, spine richly gilt, gilt edge, very fine copy, binding signed ‘Hopkins, Glasgow’.
New edition, with prefatory note by Mrs. Tyndall, of this classical work. Tyndall was professor of natural philosophy at the Royal Institution. With his friend Huxley he went to Switzerland to study the motion of glaciers; his views brought him into conflict with Forbes and James Thomson.T.H. Huxley wrote: “Tyndall took up glacier work in consequence of a conservation at my table, and we went out to Switzerland together”. This was the first season of Tyndall's systematic observations on the ‘Mer de Glace’. The hotel on the Montenvers was too noisy: for the sake of quiet, therefore, I had my bed placed in the château next door, a little octogonal building erected by some kind and sentimental Frenchman, and dedicated ‘à la nature’. This was the pavilion erected by Bourrit in 1795”De Beer, Travellers, p. 269, 274 and Early Travellers p. 172; Bibliographie der Schweizerischen Landeskunde III/87 (first edition 1860).
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Hours of exercise in the Alps. New edition.
London, Longmans, Green, 1899, in-8°, XII + 481 p., with 7 plates, exlibris Peter E. Obergfell, beautiful dark blue half morocco binding, spine richly gilt, gilt edge, very fine copy, binding signed ‘Hugh Hopkins, Glasgow’.
New edition. “A record of bodily action”, as his author calls it, this book describes the ascent of many important summits of the Swiss Alps in the 1860's. Tyndall was professor of natural philosophy at the Royal Institution. With his friend Huxley he went to Switzerland to study the motion of glaciers.This work contains (a.o.): The Matterhorn (with J.J. Bennen as guide) / The Urbachtal and Gauli glacier / The Grimsel and the Aeggischhorn / Ascent of the Jungfrau / Death of Bennen on the Haut de Cry / Ascent of the Eiger and passage of the trift / Ascent of the Aletschorn / Notes on ice and glaciers, etc. The first edition appeared in 1871.Waeber BSL III/95; Senger, Wie die Schweizer Alpen erobert wurden p. 92.
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Dans les montagnes. (Suivi de: Çà et là dans les Alpes). Traductions et préface nouvelle par L. Lortet.
Paris, Bibliothèque des Succès Scolaires J. Hetzel, s.d. (fin XIXe), in-8vo, 2 ff. + 356 p., illustré, reliure en toile d’époque.
Version française de «Mountaineering in 1861, a vacation tour» qui a paru en 1862 à Londres. L’ouvrage est suivi par ‘ça et là dans les Alpes’ dont la plupart des illustrations sont extraites de ‘Quarantième ascension au Mont-Blanc’ par Paul Verne.“Récits de courses. On y trouvera en particulier le récit de la première ascension du Weisshorn, qui fut la plus importante conquête de Tyndall dans les Alpes” (Perret). Perret 4355 (1re éd. franç. de 1869).
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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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Haute montagne. Traduction de Bernard Lemoine. Préface de Lord Schuster.
Neuchâtel, Victor Attinger, 1946, in-8°, 276 p. + 16 photogr. sur 8 planches, timbre sur le titre et feuille de garde "S.A.C. - Section Basel", reliure en toile originale. Pièce de titre au dos.
Première ed. française. - Ce livre constitue un excellent aperçu de l'oeuvre de Tyndall, qui est un des rares pionniers de l'Alpine Club, avec Leslie Stephen et Edward Whymper, à être accessible aux lecteurs français. Perret 4358.
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Fragments of science. A series of detached essays, addresses, and reviews. 7th edition. In 2 vols.
London, Longmans, Green, and Co, 1889, in-8vo, VIII + 452 p. + 12 p. publ. cat. / 4 ll. + 452 p. + 4 p. publ. cat., some textill. and 1 map publisher’s cloth. Very good copy.
Some of the contents are I: Constitution of Natur, radiation, the sky, alpine sculpture, physical basis of solar chemistry, on force, life & letters of Faraday,death by lightning, science and the spirits / II: Reflections on prayer and natural law, miracles and special providences, scientific materialism, scientific use if the imagination, Prof. Virchow and evolution, the electric light.
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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’.
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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Haute montagne. Trad. Bernard Lemoine. Préf. Lord Schuster.
Neuchatel, Victor Attinger, 1946, in-8°, 276 p. + 16 planches photogr. h.-t., non rogné, brochure originale illustrée.
Première édition française. Perret 4358
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Der Schall. Acht Vorlesungen. Hrsg. von H. Helmholtz u. G. Wiedemann. 2. Aufl.
Braunschweig, Vieweg, 1874, in-8vo, XVI, 412 S. m. 169 Textholzschnitten, Hldr. Charnière avec début de fente.
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Das Licht. 6 Vorlesungen gehalten in Amerika im Winter 1872-1873. Deutsch hrsg. v. G. Wiedemann.
Braunschweig, Vieweg, 1876. in-8vo, Frontispiz Portr. v. Thomas Young + XXV + 275 S. mit 59 Textholzschn., Original H.-Lederband.
Deutsche Erstausgabe.
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