ON THE ADMIRATION OF MOUNTAINS THE PREFATORY LETTER ADDRESSED TO JACOB AVIENUS, PHYSICIAN, IN GESNER'S PAMPHLET "ON MILK AND SUBSTANCES PREPARED FROM MILK," FIRST PRINTED AT ZÜRICH IN 1543. A DESCRIPTION OF THE RIVEN MOUNTAIN, COMMONLY CALLED MOUNT PILATUS, ADDRESSED TO J. CHRYSOSTOME HUBR, ORIGINALLY PRINTED WITH ANOTHER WORK OF GESNER'S AT ZÜRICH IN 1555. TRANSLATED BY H. B. D. SOULE. TOGETHER WITH: ON CONRAD GESNER AND THE MOUNTAINEERING OF THEUERDANK, BY J. MONROE THORINGTON

San Francisco: Grabhorn Press, 1937. Quarter green calf and faux birch boards (a variant binding). Bookplate of James S. Copley. Spine extremities quite rubbed, some fading of boards and peeling at foretips and fore-edge, a couple leaves toned at margin, just a good copy. First edition. Bibliographical notes by W. Dock and J. Monroe Thorington. One of 325 copies printed by Edwin & Robert Grabhorn, binding by W. Wheeler. Handset on Van Gelder paper, title printed in black and red; ornaments, colophon, and printer's device below colophon in red. Initial letters by Dorothy Grover, eight woodcuts by Hans Leonhard Schaufelin. GRABHORN 273. (Inventory #: WRCLIT80077)