The Oberland and its glaciers: explored and illustrated with ice-axe and camera ... With twenty-eight photographic illustrations by Ernest Edwards, B. A. and a map of the Oberland
by George, H. B
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About This Item
London: Alfred W. Bennett, 1866. First edition, 4to, pp. [2], xii, 243; double-page map, frontispiece, title-page vignette, and 26 other mounted albumen photographs (11 full-p. and 17 in the text); front free endpaper excised, binding with a few spots and stains, extremities a bit rubbed, but in all a very good copy in original pictorial green cloth stamped in gilt on upper cover and spine, a.e.g. Neate, G13; NYPL Checklist, 136; Truthful Lens, 74: "A 7-page chapter "Notes by the Photographer" describes the difficulty of making wet-collodion photographs under field conditions. The author was editor of the Alpine Journal."
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- Seller
- Rulon-Miller Books (US)
- Seller's Inventory #
- 29406
- Title
- The Oberland and its glaciers: explored and illustrated with ice-axe and camera ... With twenty-eight photographic illustrations by Ernest Edwards, B. A. and a map of the Oberland
- Author
- George, H. B
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Alfred W. Bennett
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1866
- Keywords
- Photography , Photographia , Alps , Mountaineering
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