The Natural History of the Alps
Well Illustrated with Wood Engraved Plates
Berlepsch, H ALPS or Sketches of Life and Nature in the Mountains. Translated by the Rev. Leslie Stephen London Longman, Green, Longman, and Roberts 1861
First edition. With 17 tinted wood-engraved plates. 8vo, full contemporary red calf richly gilt. vi, iv, 407. A very good copy.
A survey, part scientific, part social, with chapters on geology, glaciology, avalanches, village life, climbing, and hunting.
$US375
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