The Alps from End to End

CONWAY Sir William Martin 1856-1937

Edité par Archibald Constable and Co, Westminster, 1895

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In brown quarter buckram over finger soiled, green cloth boards, gilt tooling & titles, edges rubbed a little. Spine, gilt titles. Internally, half title, tissue guarded frontis, tp in red & black inks with B&W vignette, [7], (viii-xii), [1], 2-403 pp, 98 plates + frontis & title vignette, B&W, most full page, t.e.g., some very light offsetting & spotting to prelims, t.e.g. A very pleasing copy. Contains the famous high-level traverse from Monte Viso to the Gross Glockner. (237*165 mm). (Neate *176. Alpine Club Library catalogue p73). Conway, (William) Martin, Baron Conway of Allington, art historian and mountaineer, who in 1892 led a large-scale mountaineering expedition to the Karakoram Himalayas. Conway's large party surveyed the Baltoro glacier and the region around K2, and ascended Pioneer Peak on Baltoro Kangri, which at 6890 meters may have constituted an altitude record at the time. See ODNB for a full Bio.

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• Titre: The Alps from End to End
• Éditeur: Archibald Constable and Co, Westminster
• Date de parution: 1895
• Langue: anglais
• Reliure: Hardcover
• Illustrateur: M'Cormick AD
• Édition: First Edition
• État de l'article: Very Good
• Poids: 1,45 kilogramme
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