Author: BERLEPSCH Hermann Alexander von
Title: The Alps, or Sketches of Life and Nature in the Mountains. Translated by the Rev. Leslie Stephen. With Plates from Designs by Emil Rittmeyer. [First English Edition.] BRIGHT, CRISP COPY OF THE FIRST ENGLISH EDITION
Description: Longman, Green, Longman & Roberts,, 1861. 8vo., First Edition thus, with frontispiece (original tissue guard present) and 16 plates (all original tissue guards present); original maroon pebble-grain cloth, upper board blocked in gilt, gilt back, chocolate endpapers, uncut, expertly rebacked with old backstrip laid down, a very good, bright, clean, crisp copy. Front and rear advertisement paste-downs preserved. With the nineteenth century armorial bookplate of Lt.-Colonel Hon. Henry C. Legge on front paste-down, and binder's ticket of Edmonds & Remnants on rear paste-down. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.

Keywords: sports, mountaineering, rock-climbing, climbing, alps, alpine, berlepsch, hermann berlepsch, rittmeyer


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