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The Pioneers of the Alps.

Name: The Pioneers of the Alps.
Author: Cunningham, C. D. & W. de W. Abney.

Book Description

First edition. Folio. pp. xi, 287; twenty-four photogravure portraits including dedication leaf, one full- page illustration of ice-axes, illusts. to text; very good in the original red cloth, gilt, t.e.g., bumped to extremities, a little faded on spine and on adjacent area of upper board.

Dealer Notes

Neate C156; Perret 1173. An evocative record of the silver age of Alpinism. The list of entries - Melchior Anderegg, Christian Almer, François Devouassoud, Jean-Antoine Carrel, Emile Rey, and others - is a roll call of the most important Alpine guides of the later nineteenth century. Superb portrait photogravures accompany each biography in this nicely produced volume. A second edition, in slightly smaller format, was published the following year.

Author Cunningham, C. D. & W. de W. Abney.

Date 1887

Binding Original red cloth

Publisher London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, and Rivington

Condition Very good, with some fading to spine.

Pages pp. xi, 287;

Price: £875.00

Offered by Meridian Rare Books

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