Author: (Alpine Journal).
Title: THE ALPINE JOURNAL: A Record of Mountain Adventure and Scientific Observation By Members of the Alpine Club. Volume VIII August 1876 to May 1878. Edited by Douglas W. Freshfield.
Description: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1878. 1st Ed. viii + 475pp. + 94pp. 8 plates and maps including 1 folding. Some light browning, marbled e.ps., contemporary gilt rule edged half morocco with marbled boards, extremities rubbed, gilt lettering and motifs to spine. ¶ From the Library of William Allsup (1890-1969). Climber, Mountaineer, founder member of the Himalayan Club of which he became Vice-President in 1943. Howard Somervell penned obituaries of him in the Fell & Rock Climbing Journal and Alpine Journal. Articles include A Railroad Across the Andes by G.R. Fitzory Cole, A Winter Trip to Sardinia by O. Maund, Matterhorn without Guides by A. Cust, etc.

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