Edward Whymper - Scrambles Amongst The Alps - 1936

Sechste Ausgabe 1936.
"Gespendet an den Fell and Rock Climbing Club des English Lake District von Mary Barton geb. Morse 2001."
Publishers brown cloth with cover vignettes.
Gilt title to spine.
Marbled endpapers and page-blocks.
Bookplate and name on inside.
Covers strengthened.

xviii, [1], 432 Seiten.
Frontispiece plate.
Title vignette.Frontispiece portrait.
Full-page b&w plates.
1 fold-out colour plate.
5 fold-out b&w maps.

Whymper's classic account of adventures on and about the Matterhorn.
Illustrated from the author's own drawings and relates the fateful ascent
dby a party which included Whymper, during which 4 climbers fell to their
deaths. Considered by many to be "the most famous mountaineering book
in the world" (Neate).

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