Scrambles amongst the Alps in the Years 1860-69.

Name: Scrambles amongst the Alps in the Years 1860-69.
Author: Whymper, Edward.

Book Description

First edition. 8vo. pp. xviii, [ii, part title], 432; 22 wood-engraved plates, numerous wood-engravings to text, 6 folding maps or geological sections at rear; foxing to first and final leaves, else very good in the original cloth, sometime rebacked with the original spine laid down, ?new endpapers, a little wear to extremities.

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Whymper's account of the first ascent of the Matterhorn in 1865, and of the accident that marred the descent..

Author Whymper, Edward.

Date 1871

Binding Original cloth, gilt

Publisher London: John Murray

Condition See description

Pages pp. xviii, [ii, part title], 432

Price: £575.00

Offered by Meridian Rare Books

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