Author: WHYMPER Edward
Title: Scrambles amongst the Alps in the Years 1860-69. Second Edition. SECOND EDITION IN HALF MOROCCO
Description: John Murray,, 1871. 8vo., Second Edition, with engraved frontispiece, title-vignette, 21 engraved plates, 92 illustrations in the text, 5 folding maps (one or two short tears in folds) and large folding chart at end, neat contemporary signatures on blank preliminary, title very lightly dust-soiled; firmly bound in contemporary brown half morocco, marbled boards ruled in blind, back with raised bands, second and third compartments letterd in gilt, all other compartments tooled in gilt, marbled edges, cream endpapers, covers mildly age-marked and faded else a very good, bright, clean copy. Bright, clean copy in contemporary binding of the most famous mountaineering book of all time. Neate *897.

Keywords: sports, mountaineering, climbing, rock-climbing, alps, alpine, whymper, edward whymper


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