Travels through the Alps of Savoy and other Parts of the Pennine Chain with Observations on the Phenomena of Glaciers. THE ORIGINAL EDITION
Rare and modern books
Forbes James David
Adam & Charles Black, Edinburgh,
1843
Travels through the Alps of Savoy and other Parts of the Pennine Chain with Observations on the Phenomena of Glaciers. THE ORIGINAL EDITION
Rare and modern books
Forbes James David
Adam & Charles Black, Edinburgh,
1843
793.50 €
(Devon,
United Kingdom)
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Details
- Year of publication
- 1843
- Author
- Forbes James David
- Publishers
- Adam & Charles Black, Edinburgh
- Keyword
- sports, mountaineering, climbing, rock-climbing, alps, alpine, savoy, pennines, glaciers, james forbes
- Languages
- English
Description
Roy. 8vo., First Edition, with lithograph frontispiece, 8 lithograph plates, 9 tinted lithograph topographical sketches on 4, engraved illustrations in the text and large folding map in pocket at end, plates mildly spotted, text-block clean, neat inscription on blank preliminary; original terracotta cloth, boards elaborately framed and blocked in blind, neatly rebacked in cloth to style with original gilt label laid down, dove-blue endpapers, a very good, bright, firm copy. With the nineteenth-century engraved armorial bookplate of Sir Hugh Hume Campbell of Marchmont. Robust copy of an alpine classic. VERY SCARCE. Neate *274.
