[Rarebooks] FS: THE OBERLAND & ITS GLACIERS, 1866, with 28 original photographs. Inscribed by Elihu Root

[Charles Agvent]

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GEORGE,  H.  B.  THE  OBERLAND  AND  ITS  GLACIERS:  EXPLORED  AND
ILLUSTRATED  WITH ICE-AXE AND CAMERA. London: Alfred W. Bennett  1866.
First    Edition.   Quarto  (8-1/2"  x   10-1/2")  in   the   original
gilt-decorated  brick  cloth depicting a camera and climbing tools  on
the  front cover. Illustrated with 28 original albumen photographs  by
noted  Alpine photographer Ernest Edwards as well as a two-page map of
the  Oberland. Photographs range in size from 17 small images inserted
within  the text, including a circular vignette on the title page,  to
11  full-page images. The Oberland (highlands) include the snowy  Alps
of  the  Swiss  Canton of Berne. A seven-page chapter  "Notes  by  the
Photographer"  describes the difficulty of making wet-collodion images
under  field  conditions.  The  author was the editor  of  the  ALPINE
JOURNAL.   Goldschmidt  &  Naef,  THE   TRUTHFUL  LENS,  #74.  A  most
interesting  copy  with a SIGNED PRESENTATION on the half-title  page:
"Willard   Bartlett/In  remembrance  of   some  days/with  ice   axe &
rope/Elihu  Root/Dec  25'  73." Root, who was later secretary  of  war
under   William  McKinley  and  secretary   of  state  under  Theodore
Roosevelt,  formed  an early law partnership with Bartlett, who  would
eventually  become  Justice  of the Supreme Court in  New  York.  Root
maintained  a correspondence with Bartlett up to the latter's death in
1925.  This  inscription dates from when both were in their late  20s.
Contents  clean  and  bright  as  are  the  covers.  The  frontispiece
photograph  is  pulling away from the text block but  still  attached.
Some  fraying  to  the top front spine edge and the spine  tips.  Near
Fine, and a superb association copy.                          $3000.00

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