[Rarebooks] FS: THE OBERLAND AND ITS GLACIERS, 1866, with 28 Original Photos, Elihu Root Presentation, price reduced

[Charles Agvent]

Price reduced to $1300 NET

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." 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.

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. (#014216)        $2,000.00

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