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THE ALPS IN 1864 a private journal by A.W. Moore edited E.H. Stevens Volume II - Blackwell's Mountaineering Library.
by Moore, A.W. edited by E.H. Stevens
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good/Good
- Seller
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Blockley, Gloucestershire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1939. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Sepia photographs(18) + several maps (5 to endpapers). . Octavo cloth with vignette in dust jacket (lower corners bit bumped/jacket edge torn with losses to head/foot of spine) xi & 247-524pp. This volume two which covers The Col d'Herens, Rimpfischhorn, The Dom, The Biesjoch, The Moming Pass, The Aletschhorn, The Wetterlucke, The Eiger, The Wetterhorn, Mont Blanc from Brenva Glacier, The Winterjoch, The Tiefenmattenjoch, The Grandes Jorasses, Mont Blanc from the Miage Glacier, The Monch. S.Robinson inscription. Not price clipped and almost unused. Slight wear on edges, some tears on leaf, pagination in very good condition.
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- Bookseller
- Abbey Antiquarian Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- A75245
- Title
- THE ALPS IN 1864 a private journal by A.W. Moore edited E.H. Stevens Volume II - Blackwell's Mountaineering Library.
- Author
- Moore, A.W. edited by E.H. Stevens
- Illustrator
- Sepia photographs(18) + several maps (5 to endpapers).
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Basil Blackwell
- Place of Publication
- Oxford
- Date Published
- 1939
- Keywords
- Mountaineering Alps climbing glaciers
- Bookseller catalogs
- General Non-Fiction;
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Abbey Antiquarian Books
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Blockley, Gloucestershire
About Abbey Antiquarian Books
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