[Rarebooks] FS: PEAKS, PASSES, AND GLACIERS, 1862, illustrated with 14 color folding maps, 2 woodcut title vignettes, and 54 woodcuts, price reduced

Charles Agvent chagvent at ptd.net
Thu Jun 23 13:27:58 EDT 2011


Price reduced:    Was $850   Now  $750

KENNEDY, Edward Shirley (editor). PEAKS, PASSES, AND GLACIERS. BEING 
EXCURSIONS BY MEMBERS OF THE ALPINE CLUB. SECOND SERIES. London: 
Longman, Green et al., 1862. First Edition. Two octavo (5-1/2" x 8-1/2") 
volumes in original cloth with depictions of climbers in action in gilt 
on the front covers. Illustrated with 14 color folding maps, 2 woodcut 
title vignettes, 54 woodcuts (some full page), and tables of mountain 
peaks and passes. Front hinge of first volume cracked but tight; foxing 
to preliminaries. Bright, clean, close to Fine set.         $750.00

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