Author: FRESHFIELD, Douglas (edited by):
Title: The Alpine Journal: A record of mountain adventure and scientific observation. By members of the Alpine Club. Volume VI. N° 37 - 44: August 1872 to May 1874.
Description: London, Longmans, Green, Reader, and Dyer, 1874, gr. in-8vo, VII (+ 1 list of illustrations) + 448 p. with 9 illustrations & 1 folded map of the Maderanerthal, fine reddish/brown full leather binding, spine on 4 bands richly gilt, first cover with gilt text ¶ Some of the contents: Alpine slang / Hamilton A.B.: the district of Arolla / Coolidge: Bietschhorn / Chamonix guides / Tuckett: Col Vicentino / Kennedy: Courmayeur / John Ball: Mountaineering in the Great Atlas / Whymper: Greenland and the Greenlanders / Tuckett: Grindelwald Gletscher, recent retreat / Sowerby: Maderanerthal / Stephen: Mont-Blanc, a new Pass in the Chain / Taylor: Monte Rosa / Dent Rothhorn from Zermatt /Coolidge: Wetterhorn and Jungfrau in Winter. / ca. 40 Alpine Notes - ca. 10 reviews and notices. Interesting lecture. Please notify before visiting to see a book. Prices are excl. VAT/TVA (only Switzerland) & postage.

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