The Alps, or Sketches of Life and Nature in the Mountains
BERLEPSCH, Hermann Alexander von
Translated by the Rev. Leslie Stephen. With Plates from Designs by Emil Rittmeyer. [First English Edition.]
BRIGHT, CRISP COPY OF THE FIRST ENGLISH EDITION
Published: Longman Green Longman & Roberts, 1861
Stock code: 39441
Price: £134.00
8vo., First Edition thus, with frontispiece (original tissue guard present) and 16 plates (all original tissue guards present); original maroon pebble-grain cloth, upper board blocked in gilt, gilt back, chocolate endpapers, uncut, expertly rebacked with old backstrip laid down, a very good, bright, clean, crisp copy.
Front and rear advertisement paste-downs preserved. With the nineteenth century armorial bookplate of Lt.-Colonel Hon. Henry C. Legge on front paste-down, and binder's ticket of Edmonds & Remnants on rear paste-down. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.