Author: ABRAHAM, GEORGE DIXON
Title: Mountain Adventures at Home and Abroad
Description: New York: Doubleday, Page & Co, 1910. First American Edition. Hardcover. Some edgewear to extremities; A tight solid book, hinges intact. Green cloth covered boards, plain front board, gilt titles on spine. Top edge gilt, fore and bottom edges untrimmed. B&W frontispiece with tissue guard, all 26 plates present ; B&W Plates; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 308 pages; "George and Ashley Abraham were brother climbers and photographers who lived in Keswick, Cumberland in the English Lake District. They made a photographic record of the exploits of many of the climbing pioneers, especially Owen Glynne Jones, with whom they formed a close climbing partnership from 1896 until his death in 1899. Most of their work was done between 1890 and 1920 and forms a valuable record of the evolution of early rock-climbing in the English Lake District." Here are chapters featuring famous climbs across Europe illustrated with photgraphs taken by the Abraham brothers.. Very Good with no dust jacket .
Keywords: Mountaineering matterhorn Alps Sports & Games
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Title: Mountain Adventures at Home and Abroad
Description: New York: Doubleday, Page & Co, 1910. First American Edition. Hardcover. Some edgewear to extremities; A tight solid book, hinges intact. Green cloth covered boards, plain front board, gilt titles on spine. Top edge gilt, fore and bottom edges untrimmed. B&W frontispiece with tissue guard, all 26 plates present ; B&W Plates; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 308 pages; "George and Ashley Abraham were brother climbers and photographers who lived in Keswick, Cumberland in the English Lake District. They made a photographic record of the exploits of many of the climbing pioneers, especially Owen Glynne Jones, with whom they formed a close climbing partnership from 1896 until his death in 1899. Most of their work was done between 1890 and 1920 and forms a valuable record of the evolution of early rock-climbing in the English Lake District." Here are chapters featuring famous climbs across Europe illustrated with photgraphs taken by the Abraham brothers.. Very Good with no dust jacket .
Keywords: Mountaineering matterhorn Alps Sports & Games
Price: US$ 50.00 Seller: Ainsworth Books
- Book number: 19576
- Book number: 19576
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