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Scrambles Amongst The Alps In The Years 1860-69 … Fifth Thousand.
by WHYMPER, Edward
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- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
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London, London, United Kingdom
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About This Item
1871. London, John Murray, 1871. 8vo. Original green cloth, spine lettered and decorated in gilt, bevelled edges; pp. xviii, [2], 432; wood-engraved illustrations including some full-page, 5 maps and one snow diagrams to rear; very slightly rubbed, hinges expertly restored with reback, a little offsetting from endpapers, front endpaper with old inscription one plate and a few text leaves with light marginal spotting, otherwise near spotless and clean, a very good copy. First edition, second printing. Whymper's classic account of adventures on and about the Matterhorn, illustrated from the author's own drawings, relates the fateful ascent by a party which included Whymper and during which 4 climbers fell to their deaths. Immensely popular in its day, Scrambles remains a bestselling tale of triumph and tragedy, and is considered by many to be "the most famous mountaineering book in the world" (Neate). This is a copy of the first edition, copies of which are very hard to find in such nice condition as the present example. Neate 897; Perret 4557.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Henry Sotheran Ltd.
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 2111400
- Title
- Scrambles Amongst The Alps In The Years 1860-69 … Fifth Thousand.
- Author
- WHYMPER, Edward
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Date Published
- 1871
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Henry Sotheran Ltd.
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London, London
About Henry Sotheran Ltd.
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