EARLY TRAVELLERS IN THE ALPS by [Mountaineering]; de Beer G.R - 1930

London: Sidgwick & Jackson, Otd., 1930. First Edition. Illustrated throughout with a great profusion of full page plates and illustrations in the text, a number of maps are also included including a large folding map at the end of the volume. 8vo, publisher's original green cloth lettered in black on the spine and upper cover, in the original printed dustjacket, the upper cover with pictorial illustration. xx, 204 pp. A fine copy, the dustjacket in quite excellent condition, the text-block clean, the book tight and very well preserved, the green cloth with age mellowing probably from defects in the colouring. FIRST EDITION. A fine history by one of the most prolific of the mountaineering authors. De Beer was a well thought of historian of mountaineering and of the Alps.