Author: ALPINE CLUB
Title: Peaks, Passes, and Glaciers. A Series of Excursions by Members of the Alpine Club. Edited by John Ball. Second Edition. IN CONTEMPORARY SIGNED BINDING
Description: Longman Green Longman & Roberts,, 1859. 8vo., Second Edition, with a mounted chromolithographed frontispiece, engraved title-vignette, 7 fine mounted chromolithographed plates (all original tissue guards save one present), 24 woodcut illustrations in the text, and 9 folding engraved and coloured maps (one of two short tears in folds), neat contemporary signature on blank preliminary recto; attractively bound in late nineteenth century half calf BY SMART OF GLOUCESTER, marbled boards, back with five raised bands tooled in gilt, second compartment ruled and lettered in gilt, all other compartments ruled in blind, red sprinkled edges, marbled endpapers, upper hinge tender else a very good, bright, clean copy. With the engraved binder's ticket on front paste-down. Published in the same year as the first edition. This edition has a new title-vignette and an extra woodcut illustration. This work is effectively the forerunner of the Alpine Club Journal. 'Commonly regarded as the cornerstone of any mountaineering collection' (Neate). An appendix lists all Alpine peaks above 12,000ft. Neate 18.

Keywords: mountaineering, climbing, alps, alpine club, john ball, alpine club, sports, pastimes, mountaineering, peaks, passes, glaciers


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