Summer Months Among the Alps: With the Ascent of Monte Rosa
by Thomas W. Hinchliff
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- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good Condition/No Dust Jacket
- Seller
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Bristol, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans, & Roberts, London, 1857. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. Inscribed by Author. Size: 8vo - over 7.75 - 9.75" tall. xviii + 312pp. Internally clean. Binding firm, spine slightly cocked. Hinges reinforced with binding tape. Previous owner's inscription in ink. Edges browned. Covers slightly marked. Corners bumped. Rebound by Edmonds & Remnants, London, with original spine and cloth covers laid on to new boards. Advertisement pages to pastedowns have been preserved. Faint inscription to front end paper appears to read, "Lionel G. Robinson, from the author." Thomas Woodbine Hinchliff (5 December 1825 Â 8 May 1882) was an English mountaineer, traveller, and author, from 1875 to 1877 the seventh President of the Alpine Club. 'Summer Months Among the Alps' was referred to in Mark Twain's 'A Tramp Abroad' as "Hinchliffe's book". Contains frontispiece, 3 illustrations and 3 fold-out maps, one of which has some repairs and is partially torn at fold. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Mountaineering; Europe; 19th century; Travel & Places. Inscribed by Author. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 20658. .
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- Bookseller
- Dreadnought Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 20658
- Title
- Summer Months Among the Alps: With the Ascent of Monte Rosa
- Author
- Thomas W. Hinchliff
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good Condition
- Jacket Condition
- No Dust Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans, & Roberts
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1857
- Keywords
- BZDB243 sports, leisure, travel, bio, C19th, history Mountaineering; Europe; 19th century; Travel & Places. Inscribed by Author Thomas W. Hinchliff Summer Months Among the Alps: With the Ascent of Monte Rosa
- Bookseller catalogs
- Travel & Places; Mountaineering;
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About Dreadnought Books
Founded in 2010, Dreadnought Books is a second-hand and out of print book dealer specialising in history, with a particular focus on military, social and labour history.
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