MOUNTAINEERING IN 1861 A VACATION TOUR por TYNDALL, John - 1862

London, Longman, Green, Longman, and Roberts, 1862, First edition. . original brown cloth with gilt spine title lettering, light cover stain, some minor rubbing, name on endpaper, very good copy with only slight foxing on few margins. . 8vo [21.5 x 14 cm]; x, 105, 8 [ads of mountaineering books] pp, 2 plates including frontis of the Weisshorn from drawing by Whymper, plate of the Matterhorn. . Neate T77. Cox (Classics in the Literature of Mountaineering) 15: 'The Golden Age of mountaineering produced a literature which has yet to be surpassed. . .The British scientist, John Tyndall, was an outstanding example of these pioneers. 1861 was his great year of climbing. He mad the first ascent of the Weisshorn and made an early attempt on the Matterhorn, which is described in this work'. Tyndall later made the first traverse of the Matterhorn. A picture of this book is available on request by email.

London: Longman, Green, Longman, and Roberts, 1862. First Edition . Cloth - Hard Cover. Fair/No Jacket. 103 pages, plus two plates and eight pages of ads. Ex-Library with faults as follows. Pebbled brown cloth covers are heavily worn. Library plate with numbers and discard stamp on front paste down. End leaves with small corner chips. Oval blind stamp on edge of title on title page and on first page of text. Inked library numbers on blank verso of title page. Check-out slip on rear end leaf, and library plate torn from rear paste down. Rear hinge is supported with binders tape. Contents show a few small edge chips and a few small and light smudges. Otherwise contents are complete, clean, and intact.

London: Longman, Green, Longman and Roberts, 1862. First edition. Hardcover. Good + overall. John Tyndall (1820 - 1893) was a prominent 19th century physicist and philosopher. He was an accomplished author, speaker, mountaineer. Presented to Ursula Corning by her father. She was a noted mountain climber (Matterhorn) & skier and member of The Alpine Club in London. She worked for the OSS, a predecessor to the CIA, during World War II. Sml 8vo, 105pp, 8 pp catalog at back, original Victorian brown patterned cloth, gilt lettering on spine. Two illustrations of the Weisshorn and Matterhorn. Frayed at top and base of spine, o/w good + condition. OCLC: 877274878.

London: Longman, Green, 1862. First Edition. Publisher’s cloth. Aside from a little foxing, an especially clean and bright copy.