Eckenstein O (2 results)
More imagesPublished by Methuen & Co. Ltd., London 1934
- Hardcover
Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United KingdomRooke Books PBFA
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Cloth. Condition: Very Good. An early edition of this comprehensive guide to mountaineering around the world, with illustrations throughout. The third edition of this work in the publisher's original cloth binding. Ink inscription of "E. Dudley Ward" to the front free end paper, and to the verso of the first plate in the text, w…ith notes on tying a bowline on a bight. Illustrated with a frontispiece and six further plates, reproduced from photographs by Sydney Spencer, Oscar Eckenstein, C. F. Meade, Jean Gaberell and Norman Collie, with numerous in-text illustrations. Collated, complete. An informative work on mountaineering written by a variety of experts, edited by the British climber Geoffrey Winthrop Young. This comprehensive work offers advice in leading expeditions, the necessary equipment, mountaineering with and without guides, methods of climbing, ice and snow craft, and mountaineering in different conditions. There are chapters on mountain ranges such as the Caucasus, Himalayas, Pyrenees, and many more, by climbers such as William Cecil Slingsby and Tom George Longstaff. The editor Geoffrey Winthrop Young (1876-1958) was a British climber, poet and author of many notable books on mountaineering. He made several new ascents in the Alps, including noted routes on the Zermatt Breithorn on Monte Rosa and the west ridge of the Gspaltenhorn, as well as his finest rock climb: the Mer de Glace face of the Aiguille du Grépon. In the publisher's original cloth binding. Externally smart, with faint marks to the front board. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean except for small tide marks to the end papers and a little offsetting to the paste downs. Very Good. Sydney Spencer; O. Eckenstein; C. F. Meade; et al. (illustrator). book.
More imagesPublished by Reimar, London, 1914
Seller: Bouquinerie du Varis, Russy, FR, SwitzerlandBouquinerie du Varis
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editor's binding. 320x235mm, 1165pages, b/w photographs, 13 color plates, 1 maps, Book in good condition. En cas de problème de commande, veuillez nous contacter via notre page d'accueil / If there is a problem with the order, please contact us via our homepage.
