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SCRAMBLES AMONGST THE ALPS IN THE YEARS 1860-69 EDWARD WHYMPER 1871 FIRST EDITION
SCRAMBLES AMONGST THE ALPS IN THE YEARS 1860-69 EDWARD WHYMPER 1871 FIRST EDITION
SCRAMBLES AMONGST THE ALPS IN THE YEARS 1860-69 EDWARD WHYMPER 1871 FIRST EDITION
SCRAMBLES AMONGST THE ALPS IN THE YEARS 1860-69 EDWARD WHYMPER 1871 FIRST EDITION
SCRAMBLES AMONGST THE ALPS IN THE YEARS 1860-69 EDWARD WHYMPER 1871 FIRST EDITION
SCRAMBLES AMONGST THE ALPS IN THE YEARS 1860-69 EDWARD WHYMPER 1871 FIRST EDITION
SCRAMBLES AMONGST THE ALPS IN THE YEARS 1860-69 EDWARD WHYMPER 1871 FIRST EDITION
SCRAMBLES AMONGST THE ALPS IN THE YEARS 1860-69 EDWARD WHYMPER 1871 FIRST EDITION
SCRAMBLES AMONGST THE ALPS IN THE YEARS 1860-69 EDWARD WHYMPER 1871 FIRST EDITION
SCRAMBLES AMONGST THE ALPS IN THE YEARS 1860-69 EDWARD WHYMPER 1871 FIRST EDITION
SCRAMBLES AMONGST THE ALPS IN THE YEARS 1860-69 EDWARD WHYMPER 1871 FIRST EDITION
SCRAMBLES AMONGST THE ALPS IN THE YEARS 1860-69 EDWARD WHYMPER 1871 FIRST EDITION
SCRAMBLES AMONGST THE ALPS IN THE YEARS 1860-69 EDWARD WHYMPER 1871 FIRST EDITION
SCRAMBLES AMONGST THE ALPS IN THE YEARS 1860-69 EDWARD WHYMPER 1871 FIRST EDITION
SCRAMBLES AMONGST THE ALPS IN THE YEARS 1860-69 EDWARD WHYMPER 1871 FIRST EDITION
SCRAMBLES AMONGST THE ALPS IN THE YEARS 1860-69 EDWARD WHYMPER 1871 FIRST EDITION
SCRAMBLES AMONGST THE ALPS IN THE YEARS 1860-69 EDWARD WHYMPER 1871 FIRST EDITION
SCRAMBLES AMONGST THE ALPS IN THE YEARS 1860-69 EDWARD WHYMPER 1871 FIRST EDITION
SCRAMBLES AMONGST THE ALPS IN THE YEARS 1860-69 EDWARD WHYMPER 1871 FIRST EDITION
SCRAMBLES AMONGST THE ALPS IN THE YEARS 1860-69 EDWARD WHYMPER 1871 FIRST EDITION
SCRAMBLES AMONGST THE ALPS IN THE YEARS 1860-69 EDWARD WHYMPER 1871 FIRST EDITION
SCRAMBLES AMONGST THE ALPS IN THE YEARS 1860-69 EDWARD WHYMPER 1871 FIRST EDITION
SCRAMBLES AMONGST THE ALPS IN THE YEARS 1860-69 EDWARD WHYMPER 1871 FIRST EDITION
SCRAMBLES AMONGST THE ALPS IN THE YEARS 1860-69 EDWARD WHYMPER 1871 FIRST EDITION
SCRAMBLES AMONGST THE ALPS IN THE YEARS 1860-69 EDWARD WHYMPER 1871 FIRST EDITION
SCRAMBLES AMONGST THE ALPS IN THE YEARS 1860-69 EDWARD WHYMPER 1871 FIRST EDITION
SCRAMBLES AMONGST THE ALPS IN THE YEARS 1860-69 EDWARD WHYMPER 1871 FIRST EDITION

SCRAMBLES AMONGST THE ALPS IN THE YEARS 1860-69 EDWARD WHYMPER 1871 FIRST EDITION

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[WHYMPER, Edward (1840-1911)]. Scrambles Amongst the Alps in the years 1860-69. London: John Murray, 1871.

First edition. Leather-bound. Hardcover. Octavo, 8vo ( 225 x 160 x 50 mm.). Pp. xviii, [ii], 432pp., 21 full page plates, 90 further black and white illustrations in-the-text, 5 fold-out maps at rear, including one coloured. English text. Rebound in handsome half tan calf, spine gilt, cloth sides, marbled endpapers. Tables and charts. Footnotes. Rear appendix. Printed by R. Clark, Edinburgh. Condition: GOOD to VERY GOOD. Collated complete. Binding tight and secure with some rubbing to joints and points. Interior largely fresh and clean, the maps well-preserved. Scarce.

Notes: First edition of the author’s classic work on mountaineering, accounting his first ascent of the Matterhorn in 1865, during which 4 of the 6 members of his party died. The first book to help promote the very notion that peaks are meant to be climbed. Published in 1871, Scrambles Amongst the Alps is Whymper's own story of his nine years spent climbing in the Alps. One of the first books devoted to the sheer thrill of mountaineering, it is a breath-taking account of the triumph of man over mountain, "the mountain which first dominated then destroyed him. His book Scrambles is the most famous mountaineering book in the world" (Neate). [Farquahar 18; Neate W65; Perret 4557].
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