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Forbes James David

Travels through the Alps of Savoy and other Parts of the Pennine Chain with Observations on the Phenomena of Glaciers. THE ORIGINAL EDITION

Adam & Charles Black, Edinburgh, 1843

793.50 €

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(Devon, United Kingdom)

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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.