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Hours of Exercise in the Alps by Tyndall, John
Authorized Edition
- Bookseller: Craftsbury Antiquarian Books
 (US)
- Bookseller Inventory #: 006864
- Format/binding: Hardcover
- Book condition: Very Good
- Illustrator: 7 Full Page Woodcut Plates
- Edition: Authorized Edition
- Binding: Hardcover
- Publisher: D. Appleton
- Place: New York
- Date published: 1897
- Keywords: Mountaineering, The Alps , Switzerland
Book Description
New York: D. Appleton, 1897. Original 3/4 morocco leather, dark blue with pretty marbled boards of dark & light blue and maroon. Fresh gilt title on the spine, and slight edgewear to the corners. Top edge gilt. Pages xii, 473 with 8 chapters at the end on Notes on Ice and Glaciers. Inside clean and tight, with no foxing or stains or prior owner marks. Tyndall went to Switzerland to study the motion of glaciers, and describes his ascent of the Matterhorn, Jungfrau, and other Swiss peaks. This classic, still very readable, was first published in 1871. An unusually nice copy. . Authorized Edition . Three-Quarter Leather. Very Good. Illus. by 7 Full Page Woodcut Plates. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
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