Beschreibung:

The Tour of Mont Blanc and of Monte Rosa being a personal narrative, abridged from the author's travels in the Alps of Savoy, Edinburgh, 1855, folding map frontispiece, folding map at rear (closed tear without loss), publisher's catalogue bound in at end, original gilt-decorated cloth, a little rubbed and some marks, with slight fraying to extreme head of spine, small 8vo, together with Tyndall (John) , The Glaciers of the Alps. Being a narrative of excursions and ascents, an account of the origin and phenomena of glaciers, and expedition of the physical principles to which they are related, 1st edition, John Murray 1860, monochrome illustrations, original blindstamped cloth gilt, rubbed and sunned to spine and upper margins of boards, 8vo, plus Whymper (Edward) , Scrambles amongst the Alps in the years 1860-69, 2nd edition, John Murray 1871, numerous wood engraved illustrations, original green cloth, gilt decorated spine, very slightly rubbed (generally in good condition), large 8vo, and Umlauft (Professor F.) , The Alps, translated by Louisa Brough, 1st English edition, 1889, numerous wood engraved plates and illustrations, maps, etc., original pictorial cloth gilt, rubbed and some soiling, large 8vo, plus other alpine and mountaineering interest, Switzerland, etc., including James D. Forbes, Travels through the Alps, new edition, revised and annotated by W.A.B. Coolidge, 1900, W.A.B. Coolidge, Swiss Travel and Swiss Guide-books, 1st edition, 1989, W.M. Conway, The Alps from End to End, 1895, A.W. Moore, The Alps in 1864, a private journal, 1902, John Ball, Peaks, Passes, and Glaciers, First Series, 3rd edition, 1889 & Third Series, 1932, F. Barham Zincke, A Walk in the Grisons, 1875, Leslie Stephen, The Playground of Europe, 1871, etc. (18)