Author: (Alpine Journal).
Title: THE ALPINE JOURNAL: A Record of Mountain Adventure and Scientific Observation By Members of the Alpine Club. Volume VII August 1874 to May 1876. Edited by Douglas W. Freshfield.
Description: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1876. 1st Ed. viii + 472pp. 6 plates and maps including 1 folding. Some light browning, marbled e.ps., contemporary gilt rule edged half morocco with marbled boards, extremities rubbed, gilt lettering and motifs to spine. ¶ From the Library of William Allsup (1890-1969). Climber, Mountaineer, founder member of the Himalayan Club of which he became Vice-President in 1943. Howard Somervell penned obituaries of him in the Fell & Rock Climbing Journal and Alpine Journal. Articles include The Golden Eagle and its Eyrie by W.A. Baillie Grohman, Across Lapland by W.E. Hall, Two Attempts on Aiguille du Dru by C.T. Dent, etc.

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