SHAIRP, TATE & ADAMS-REILLY - Life and Letters of James David Forbes F.R.S.

1873, 1st Edition. Hardcover. Book, First edition, Macmillan, London, 1873. Thick 8vo, xiv, 577p, 2p ads. VG in original cloth gilt, with new endpapers at some time. Complete with folding map (by Adams-Reilly), & eight illustrations including 4 mounted photographs (two of the Mer de Glace, Chamonix). Important biography of the famous alpine mountaineer and glaciologist. DNB - 'He was the first to study scientifically the phenomena of glaciers'. Very Good.

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