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Title: Mountaineering in 1861. A vacation tour.
Description: 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. Please notify before visiting to see a book. Prices are excl. VAT/TVA (only Switzerland) & postage. Cox, Classics in the literature of Mountaineering n° 15; Perret mentions this work but does not list it separately.

Keywords: geology géologie Switzerland Suisse-Générale, Switzerland-general, Schweiz-allgemein mountain, mountains montagne Bern, Berner Oberland Bern, Berner Oberland natural science, natural sciences scnat Valais, Wallis Valais alpinism, mountaineering alpinisme

Price: CHF 250.00 = appr. US$ 248.04 Seller: Harteveld Rare Books Ltd.
- Book number: 29241