Author: FORBES, JAMES D.
Title: Travels through the Alps of Savoy and other parts of the Pennine Chain with Observations on the Phenomena of Glaciers.
Description: 1843, 1st Edition. Hardcover. Book, First edn, A&C Black, Edinburgh, 1843. x, 424p. 9 tinted litho plates, 2 maps & 4 further plates of coloured sketches of glaciers. Including the large folding map of the Mer de Glace. Minor light browning to frontispiece, slight wear, VG in blind decorated old half-calf, gilt label. An important book on early mountaineering and early glaciology. Perret 1707 'ouvrage fondamental'. Neate F45 'the first English account of systematic Alpine exploration'. DNB 'he was the first to study scientifically the phenomena of glaciers'. Very Good.

Keywords: Glaciology


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