Travels Through The Alps

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In the publishers dark green cloth, gilt titles, corners & edges worn, stain spots along front edge & dark spot to lower board. Spine, gilt titles, edges bumped & worn. Internally, tissue guarded portrait frontis, half title, [5], (vi-xxxviii), [2], [1], 2-572 pp, complete with 6 maps (folding & coloured), 9 topographical sketches within text, 1 portrait, 44 other illustrations in text, t.e.g., some faint edge browning, some pencil notes to rep, offsetting to fep. (228*162 mm). (Neate *274. Alpine Club LibCat p117). A New Edition Revised and annotated by Coolidge. The first complete edition, containing all of Forbes' Alpine writings. Containing: I. Travels through the Alps of Savoy and other parts of the Pennine chain. [1st ed., Edinburgh, 1843]--pt. II. Journals of excursions in the high Alps of Dauphine?, Berne, and Savoy. [First pub. as appendix to the author's Norway and its glaciers, 1853]--pt. III. Pedestrianism in Switzerland. [Quarterly review, April, 1857]--pt. IV. Topography of the chain of Mont Blanc. [North British review, March, 1865].