The Oberland and its glaciers: explored and illustrated with ice-axe and camera ... With twenty-eight photographic illustrations by Ernest Edwards, B. A. and a map of the Oberland
- London: Alfred W. Bennett, 1866
London: Alfred W. Bennett, 1866. First edition, 4to, pp. [2], xii, 243; double-page map, frontispiece, title-page vignette, and 26 other mounted albumen photographs (11 full-p. and 17 in the text); front free endpaper excised, binding with a few spots and stains, extremities a bit rubbed, but in all a very good copy in original pictorial green cloth stamped in gilt on upper cover and spine, a.e.g. Neate, G13; NYPL Checklist, 136; Truthful Lens, 74: "A 7-page chapter 'Notes by the Photographer' describes the difficulty of making wet-collodion photographs under field conditions. The author was editor of the Alpine Journal.
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Title
The Oberland and its glaciers: explored and illustrated with ice-axe and camera ... With twenty-eight photographic illustrations by Ernest Edwards, B. A. and a map of the Oberland
Author
George, H. B.
Condition
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Publisher
Alfred W. Bennett: London
Date
1866