Search Results: Italian Alps by Douglas W Freshfield

Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1937 Copy in grey cloth on boards with small decration on cover and red title on spine. Spine slightlty sunned. Feing liquid splash mark on upper board cover. Free of inscriptions. Clean text with b/w plates.

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Longmans, Green, 1875. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/No dust jacket. London: Longmans, Green 1875, first edition. Bound in half leather & blue cloth; gilt titles & emblems on spine. Marbled endpapers, top edge gilt. VG- condition; wear to the leather at the spine, bookplate on first free endpaper, browning to short title page & browning to fore edge. All 5 folded maps are present. 5.5 x 7.75 in., 385 pp. Illustrated with 10 wood engravings by noted artist John Gilbert.

London, Longmans, Green and Co., 1875.. First Edition; 8vo; pp. 386; b/w frontispiece, illustrated title page, 8 b/w wood engravings, 5 maps, appendices, index; original green cloth, title lettered in gilt on spine, light insect damage to back of cloth, names in ink on half-title page, 1cm ink stain to verso of frontispiece, title page and dedication, top 3cms of cloth spine cracked at rear, otherwise a very good copy.

London: Longmans, Green and Co, 1875. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good +. First printing, octavo size, 405 pp. Douglas William Freshfield (1845-1934) began mountaineering as a young man, making the first ascent of the Tour Ronde in 1867, and the first ascent of Mt. Elbrus (18,510 feet) in 1868. As well as continuing to climb, he would go on to become President (1914-17) of the Royal Geographical Society and Chairman of the Society of Authors (1908-09). This work, "Italian Alps", is (in Freshfield's own words) "a patchwork from the journals of seven summers. Their chief claim to interest lies in the fact that they deal with portions of the Alpine chain, about which English readers have hitherto found no information in their own language except in guide-books..." After stating that, if he could, he would have left the region a secret (and therefore unspoiled), after admitting that could not be the case, he decided that it would be "better that they [i.e., the mountains] should be introduced by… Read More