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THE DOLDENHORN AND WEISSE FRAU, Ascended for the First Time.
by ROTH, Abraham and Edmund Von Fellenberg.:
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- Hardcover
- first
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About This Item
Coblenz, Karl Baedeker, 1863.. FIRST EDITION 1863 with BOOK-PLATE OF HERMANN WOOLLEY, (see below for details). LACKING FRONTISPIECE, a facsimile inserted before half title. Slim 8vo, approximately 250 x 170 mm, 10 x 6½ inches, 13 plates of which there are 11 colour lithographs, 1 double page, 2 black and white full page woodcuts, 2 woodcuts in the text and a folding colour lithograph map, 82 pages plus contents page, rebound in plain dark green cloth, gilt lettering to spine, red speckled edges. Cloth faded, slight wear to head and tail of spine, 6 pages have tiny stain to tip of lower corners, some pale offsetting to text from plates, pale age-browning and light foxing to endpapers, half-title and title page, contents leaf has small light stain, otherwise a very good copy. See Jill Neate, Mountaineering Literature, revised edition 1986, page 137, R77. Neate makes a mistake in calling for 13 colour plates instead of 13 plates. This finely illustrated book includes accounts of earlier attempts. HERMANN WOOLLEY was a President of the Alpine Club from 1908-11 and made the first ascent with John Norman Collie of Mount Athabasca in the Canadian Rockies. A Photograph of him is tipped in on the free endpaper and 3 leaves of his In Memoriam loosely inserted in pocket on last pastedown, taken from the Rucksack Club Journal (see image). MORE IMAGES ATTACHED TO THIS LISTING, ALL ZOOMABLE. FURTHER IMAGES ON REQUEST. POSTAGE AT COST.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Roger Middleton
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 47732
- Title
- THE DOLDENHORN AND WEISSE FRAU, Ascended for the First Time.
- Author
- ROTH, Abraham and Edmund Von Fellenberg.:
- Format/Binding
- Rebound in plain dark green cloth, gilt lettering to spine
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Place of Publication
- Coblenz, Karl Baedeker, 1863.
- Date Published
- 1863
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Hermann Woolley mountaineering Climbing travel alpinism exploration mountains DOLDENHORN WEISSE FRAU
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Roger Middleton
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Roger Middleton
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About Roger Middleton
We are a postal business only, selling rare and antiquarian books on interesting subjects.
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- Gilt
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- Facsimile
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- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Tipped In
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- Title Page
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- Spine
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- Tail
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- Leaves
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