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Pages 90-178 plus 16 pages of great vintage ads, many illustrated. Features: The pitfalls of a man who purchased three submarine-chasing 'M.L.'s' and set out to bring them from Rosyth to the Thames - with only one boat reaching her destination - with illustrations and a photo of the boat which survived; Some Adventures with Jaguars; Photo and brief write-up of a nine-foot boa constrictor housepet in Ecuador which showed remarkable affection for its master; Unkown Peru - an Englishman who has lived in Peru for many years describes his experience in unknown regions - illustrated with his photos (part 1); Mangahau the 'Magician' - a Maori tale of a prodigal son and Tapu ; In Search of Sea Monsters - F.A. Mitchell-Hedges sets out on a two-year expedition to find and catch the world's largest fish - with photos (part 1); The Poker Bandits; a 'hold-up' at the Red Deer Lumber Company's camp in Manitoba leads to an exciting and tragic man-hunt; A Miracle of Marine Salvage - the strange case of the 'St. Paul' - with photos; The Road to Timbuctoo - another humourous adventure of Leo Walmsley of the "Three Asses in the Pyrenees" articles; A Motorcycle in High Albania - Kenneth Robertson was the first motorcyclist to cross the Albanian Alps; Winter Wild-Fowling in Friesland (Northern Holland) - with great photos of their decoys and more; Our Adventure in Normandy - a cycle-camping trip leads to an odd experience; Frank Miller's Last Fight - a gas bomb is used to overcome a cop-killing desperado in Jersey City, New Jersey - with photos; Above-average wear. Covers loose but present. Pencil writing atop front cover. A worthy vintage copy. Book
Features: North Sea Gale - coast sailors face perils just as great as those that menace the deap-sea men; The Mystery of the Dutch ship "Gilt Dragon" - a quest for long-lost wealth; Tasmanian Experiment - searching for valuable minerals; Dead Men's Tracks - An exciting story from Western Australia; Gun-Tied - an odd little story from Ceylon; High Adventure in Yugoslavia - adventure in the Julian Alps by Tom Weir; Big Game Means Easy Money - It's tough to keep poachers in check with high prices offered for ivory and horn; With a Bicycle in Babylonia - great photos; Samandar Khan - an amusing account of a personal servant in India; Australia's "Pedal Radio" - operating a radio with bicycle pedals in Australia; and more. Average wear. Binding sound. Unmarked. Sound copy. Book
Features: Hunting Trouble - Wilmon B. Menard describes how a shooting-trip in the Austrian Alps nearly landed him in a Communist jail; Last Voyage - an old tramp steamer's trip across the Atlantic during World War II, by Patrick O'Connor; The Haunted Engine Room - a curious tale be the chief refrigeration engineer of a big liner; The Long Arm - a remarkable chain of parallel experiences and a startling sequel, by T.W. Dresser; Women's Tears - an ancient custom of Baluchistan; Frontier Valley - fond memories of a Pathan village in India, with photos; The Man from the Coffin - reprint of the 1920 story of Albert Juge, a French convict who escaped the penal settlements of Guiana and then for 12 long years roamed South America; Forgotten Island - The primitive monastic settlement on the "Great Skellig" off the coast of Ireland; The Fish Tamer, by R.S. Richards of Picton, New Zealand; Pylons in the Bush - erecting high-tension transmission lines in the wilderness; and more. Average wear. Binding sound. Quality copy., Book
Pages 177-272, plus 16 pages of great ads. Features: The Blue Bandits - Part 1 - Elusive thieves operate in the Franco-Italian villages on either side of the frontier in the French department of the Hautes Alpes and the Italian district of Monte Viso; How I Lost My Christmas Dinner - hilarious story of a Christmas spent with the Maori adherents of self-styled "prophet" Rua - article with photos; On Foot Through South America - Part 2 - photo-illustrated account of Harry A. Franck's visit to Quito and his tramp through Ecuador; The Last Voyage of H.M.S. "Drake" - a vivid glimpse of the perils of convoy work and the "price of Admiralty"; ; The Trials of a Naturalist's Wife - Part 1; My Two Years' Captivity Among the Turks - Part 1of Airman Capt. T.W.White's adventures and daring escape; The Moonshiners - what happened when the author stumbled into a camp of Tennessee moonshiners; Photo of thousands of snakes at breeding time in the Klamath Falls, Oregon area; The Wonderland of the Arctic - description of a trip to Danish Greenland, with photos; In Quest of Cannibals - Part 3 - exploration and adventure in unknown New Guinea; Photo of German "Death Clock" constructed primarily of skulls and other bones; Two Balloonatics - an exciting balloon adventure from just before the war (WWI); Treasure Island - great photo-illustrated article about the remote South Pacific island of Nauru; The Mad Millionaire - how vast wealth came unexpectedly to a poor Mexican Indian, and the tragedy that ensued; The Sacred Mountain - photo-illustrated account of a picturesque Tibetan pilgrimage; The Resurrection of "Red" Wilson - an exciting story of the old days in the south-west, when the Apaches were still a terror in the land; Photo of a lakatoi (lakatois) New Guinea boat. Somewhat above-average wear. Unmarked. A worthy copy of this great vintage issue. Book
Pages 194-288 pages plus 16 pages of great vintage ads. Features: A Millionaire's Adventure - Milan millionaire Signor Luigi Beretta becomes the victim of an infamous plot; War-Time Wanderings in the Italian Alps - a merry trio of climbers have some fun; A Fight for Life in Mid-Air - a workman dismantling a great chimney at the Whitehall Road electric power works experiences a terrible industrial accident; The Adventures of Howard Blackburn - Right Hon. Sir Edward Morris, P.C., Prime Minister of Newfoundland, describes nautical adventures of Howard Blackburn; "Grubb of Gran Chaco"- The adventures of pioneer W. Barbrooke Grubb in the Paraguayan Chaco; Six Weeks in Lahoul - a hunting trip for ibex and red bear; Allen's Well - how a man was buried at the bottom of a deep well and was rescued; The Lion's Cub - a striking story from the Coast Mountains of Southern Oregon involving 'Yellow Tail' the mountain lion, Jud Bucklin, and Dick Wimer of the U.S. Forest Service; Aunt Barbara Visits Mustypore - an amusing story from an Indian coffee-planting district; A Woman Alone in China (part II) - Mary Gaunt met with many odd experiences and saw many strange sights, which are here described in most entertaining fashion, with photos; A Tragic Ocean Race - Five clipper ships started on a race from Australia to China, but strange and terrible things happened aboard the "Island Bay"; After Gold in the "Land of Fire" - an unfortunate prospecting expedition in Tierra del Fuego; The Haunted Tomb - a tale from the Southern Punjab; and more. Covers nearly detached as one. Unmarked with average wear. A worthy copy of this great vintage issue. Book
Pages 442-528 plus 24 pages of ads. Features: The Strange Case of Sergeant Pron - a story of the French Foreign Legion; Turned into a Pillar of Salt - a salt-miner becomes lost in his mine; Mysterious Fish with Strange Arabic Inscriptions - photo and brief write-up of fish caught at Zanzibar ; A Woman's Journey Across Africa - Part I - Eva J. Jordan's amazing journey through mysterious Africa, this part dealing with Uganda (with photos); How I Fired the First Shot for Britain in the Great War - Trooper William Craig, of the 4th Dragoon Guards was also the first British soldier to bring down a Uhlan; Chased by Bees - while observing apes E.F. Martin unknowingly disturbed a nest; In the Clutches of a Boa-Constrictor - adventure in Rhodesia; With the British Armoured Cars in Russia - Part II - a stirring account of their work and adventures, with great photos; The House of a Hundred Rooms - Part II - Chinese Tong-men and gamblers operated a building in Philadelphia's tenderloin district which had secret cellars and dungeons which were put to diabolical uses; My Adventures in the World War, Part IV - famous war correspondent E. Ashmead-Bartlett offers startling and thrilling contributions; The Mystery of the "Haunted Hills" - a strange story from Australia's Queensland bush; The Soldier Samson of the Italian Alps - photo-illustrated tales of an incredibly strong soldier in an Italian Alpini battalion (with photo of him lifting five men!); Human Tanks - An Ingenious Body Shield invented by Italian troops; The Papuan Chief's "Revenge" - intereseting photo-illustrated story; Some African Fashions - humorous illustrations; Arctic Painter's Thrilling Adventures - M. Borissof became lost along the northern shores of Nova Zembla and nearly died (with photo of his studio); Photo of Indian chief Wa-Ha-Gunta who just turned 134 years old!; and more. Average external wear. Bit of writing on front cover and Table of Contents. Binding intact. A worthy copy of this great vintage issue. Book
Cover illustration depicts 'First-Aid' for Fighting Tanks. Topics: Photo of British Troops at the St. Quentin Canal; What the British Army Has Done, by Lovat Fraser; Great Joy in Lille Delivered from the German; General Ludendorff by Hamilton Fyfe; Bridging Difficulties on the Road to Victory; Helps and Hindrances along the Lines of Advance; Real & Realistic Tanks in the War-Swept West; Free after Four Long Years of Oppression; Ostend won back from Unconquerable Belgium; Foiling the Foe from the Alps to the Adriatic; Ministering Women Whom Men Hold in Honour; Hun Obstacles that Failed to Hinder the French; With the 'Chinks' (Chinese Labourers) in France - Stories of Loyal Helpers from the Far East; Murder on the High Seas by the Kaiser's Minions; On Active Service - Glimpses of V.A.D. Work; Valiant Men Rewarded with the Victoria Cross; 'Back to Your Beer-Mugs' - Germany from Within by Frederic William Wile. Average wear and soiling. Staples disintegrated. A worthy copy. Book
Photos with the following captions: Lines that all lead to the Hindenburg Line; Wreckage and Waste from Ypres to Cambrai; Freed by British Bravery from the Terrible Turk; 'Tanks' Advance into action & Tow Back a Prize; On the Edge of Great Events among the Alps; Rare and Ready Courage to the Rescue of a Comrade; 'Graft' and Bribery in Russia (story); Clearing the Crescent off the Permanent Way; Weather Difficulties defied by daring and work; Unmasking Spies in London (story); 'Ghost' that Fails to Frighten our Flying Men; Happiness in Hospital in Barge and Burrow; Art's Spirit Shining Amid the Murk of War; The Terriers of the Pack - some of the remarkable doings of the "M.L." Craft (story); Last Moments of the Torpedoed Transport Medie; From London's Roads to Flanders' Muddy Fields; The Royal Highlanders of Canada (story). Above-average wear. Staples disintegrated. Book
Illustration Features: Surrending Germans pass through the French lines; The Battle of the Nieuport Dunes - Matchless story of the Northamptons and the King's Royal Rifles (article by Max Pemberton); Canadian Pioneers at work and at Liesure (5 photos); Men of many climes who fight for France; Italians in the Alps and in the air; These Three historic years - article by Lovat Fraser; Aerial activity of four warring nations; Immortal Heroism of K.R.R.C. & Northamptons; Incidents in the Battle of the Nieuport Dunes; British Women's Mission of Mercy in France; How the Hun encourages neutral powers; 'Pipsqueaks' that served to alarm all London - 5 photos of air raid sound rockets; When Paris was in Peril - article by Hamilton Fyfe; Fire and Fury Flaming upon the foe in France. Average wear. Staples disintegrated. Book
8vo., First Edition, with coloured frontispiece, coloured and monochrome plates, and illustrations in the text; blue cloth, backstrip lettered in silver, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter with loss and closed tears on rear panel. Neate 475.
32 pages. Photos of Princess Elizabeth as the years have passed; Colour Aunt Jemima pancake ad; Driving sheep through the snow-capped Alps - great photos; Linda Smith - 4-year-old rodeo expert; New Zealand's Harald Isaachsen and his back-to-nature family; Photos of Japanese Yabusame - when archers shoot on horseback; Photos of Rabies vaccine manufacture; Many other interesting photos from around the world. Somewhat above-average external wear. Bit of writing atop front cover. Book
8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece (original tissue guard present), and numerous illustrations, maps and diagrams in the text, some light and sporadic foxing, contemporary signature on title; original blue cloth, upper board blocked in blind, gilt back, uncut, a very good, bright copy.
98 pages. Short Stories: The Huntress; The Nightingales in Central Park; The Man Who Couldn't Kill; Caterwauling Company. Articles: Theives I Have Known - department store plainclotheswoman tells of her violent encounters with amateur and professional shoplifters; Adventures of the Mind - The Elusive Neutron; Great two-page color photo of Albany's Delmar Men's Orchestra rehearsing; Our Year of Escape - Ira and Patricia Spring and their kids fulfill their goal of spending a year in the Alps; England's Confusion on the Left - is the British Labour Party devouring itself in a Communist-backed 'civil war'?; Battles Under the Basket - photo-illustrated article on the pro basketball players who fight for rebounds - with photos of Gene Conley, Jack Twyman, Hub Reed, Si Green, Darrall Imhoff, Elgin Baylor, Jim Krebs, Alex Ellis, Bob Pettit, Wilt Chamberlain, Bill Russell and Kenny Sears; Frank Lloyd Wright - Definant Genius - The Years of Glory (conclusion) - photo-illustrated article; A Road Out of the Slums - New York City's bold attempt to provide culture for under-privileged children. Serials: Captives of the Storm (part 1 of 2); The Case of the Curious Spinster ( part 2 of 7). Ads: Fig Newton cookies (color photo ad inside front cover); Salem cigarettes - couple in wooded area; Puss'n Boots cat food; GTE answering machine; Two-page color ad for the Pontiac Safari Station Wagon (1961 Bonneville); Hammond Organs; Larson boats; Zenith stereos; Old Crow Bourbon; Lucky Strike cigarettes - photo of couple in meadow grass; Nice ad for the Oldsmobile Starfire features a red convertible; Dial soap; Nice color-photo one-page ad for Del E. Webb's Sun City development in Arizona; Centerfold ad for Philco home appliances includes photo of satellite; Florida tourism; Heinz Ketchup ad features sepia-toned photo of 1960 Masters and U.S. Open Champion Arnold Palmer; Two-page Caterpillar photo ad features a new nine-mile stretch of freeway at Pueblo Colorado and features photos of Jay Martin, George Fellows, Howard Butler, J. Marlowe Jensen, and Earl Beardsley; Color-photo Pitney-Bowes postage meter features shapely lady resembling Brigitte Bardot; Telephone Company ad features Parris Island recruits phoning home on Saturday night; De Beers ad features illustration of floral lady; Color ad for the renault Dauphone (red); Back cover ad for L&M cigarette's sweepstakes. Average wear. Unmarked. A worthy vintage copy. Magazine
48 Pages. Features: Cover photo of bombing crew mission debriefing session; Nice one-page color ad for Woodbury film-finish powder features Sonja Henie; Temple radio ad; We must not delay rebuilding the world; Photo of B-17s over the Reich; Photo of Allied infantry and armor fighting along the German Westwall; Dramatic photo of B-29s thundering over Mount Fuji on way to Tokyo; Photo of American troops in landing barges on way to a Pacific Island; Last Fortress of the Nazis - article and photos explain how in the Alps east of Switzerland Hitler's henchmen are expected to make a final stand - includes caricatures of Hitler, Himmler, Goebels and Goering; The Soviet Soldier Does Not Forget - he remembers the long ordeal of his people and says it must not happen again; The Censor Defends the Censorship - Director of Censorship Byron Price replies to those who complain that too much news is kept from the public; General Lewis A. Pick of 'Pick's Pike' - photo-illustrated article of the builder of Stilwell Road, the 620-mile land route to China from Burma; One-page color ad for the Parker '51' pen; Poem - "Lincoln's Last Birthday"; One-page color ad for Benson & Hedges Virginia Rounds cigarettes; The Horace Mann-Lincoln School of teachers College; Photo and article on Shirley Temple - who tells how she evolved from gurgling to glamor; ad for Philharmonic radio-phonographs; William Gallacher - the only Communist M.P. in Britain, and one of the most persistent Churchill-baiters in Parliament - article with photo; Nice color ad for Valliant Vineyards; Great letter about jobs for men and women by Ann Maulsby; Lieut. Gen. Kurt Dittmar is 'The Voice of the Wehrmacht" - article with photo; Color ad for Nestle's evaporated milk; Nice color photo ad for Thomas' Protein Bread; Meals with Little or No Meat; Color Crisco ad; The Bare Arm Look (fashion); Decorating Ingenuity; Kingergarten Enterprises; Cocomalt ad features boy on stilts; Lovely two-page fashion section features attractive photos of formal fashions; Nice half-page color ad for Marlboro cigarettes features lady in red polka-dot summerwear; Postman's Daily Rounds - article on letter carriers of the New York area distribute 80 tons of mail daily; Color one-page ad for Fabrics by Stafford, sold by Goodman & Theise; Fantastic color-photo back page ad for Rheingold Beer features Miss Rheingold 1945, Pat Boyd, bowling. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound vintage wartime issue. Book
8vo., First Edition, with plates toned in blue, some light marginal spotting; green cloth, gilt back, dark top, uncut, backstrip mildly sunned else a very good, bright, clean copy. The author failed to complete his degree, but founded the Oxford University Mountaineering Club, and the Alpine Ski Club. Neate 471.
8vo., First Edition, with numerous plates (a number double-page) throughout; brown cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in price-clipped, lightly frayed dustwrapper.
4to., First English Edition, with coloured frontispiece and plates, and numerous illustrations and maps in the text; cloth, a very good, clean copy in the dustwrapper. Lavishly illustrated with route maps and descriptions. Neate 645.
Pages 121-160. Features: Unconquered Everest - the story of the Gallant Swiss attempt; Karsh one-page photo portrait of celebrated composer Dr. Ralph Vaughan Williams, O.M.; Heligoland stirs again - numerous photos, including bombing practice devastation; Three Atomic Spies and Their Betrayals - Fuchs, Pontecorvo and Nunn May; various photos of royals; maritime photos; the U.S. Navy's new rubber life raft; Photos of racing horse Tulyar; Dramatic photo of the U.S. Navy's jet aircraft the D 558 Skyrocket in flight; sports photos, including Bisley winner Major A.B. Kinnier-Wilson; Sandhurst Royal Military Academy; Great photos of opening ceremonies at the Helsinki Olympics, including wonderful centerfold photo of the American team entering the stadium; Secrets of the Whale; Photo of Gliding champion Mr. Philip Wills; Photos of F. Trueman, the young Yorkshire fast bowler; Rebuilding the Vienna opera house; Photos of ongoing repairs to the famous Bredon-Tithe-Barn near Tewkesbury; Five excellent photos of the nearly extinct Alpine Ibex in the Bavarian Alps; Legacy of Alexander the Great's invasion of India; Charles Keene art exhibition; Nice colour ad for Number Seven cigarettes on back cover shows sailing scene; and more. Unmarked with moderate wear. A quality copy. Magazine
Pages 659-702. Features: Cover photo of the Victor of Ashangi, Marshall Badoglio, commander-in-chief of the Italian forces in Abyssinia; Photo of Gen. Smuts appealing for peace in Europe; Photo of the Kadir Cup "pig sticking"event in India, with photo of winner, Capt. P. H. J. Tuck with his horse Manifest; Two-page pictorial map of the Franco-German and Belgo-German frontiers - of world interest since the Rhineland was reoccupied; Two pages of photo of massive Burmese Leogriff (Cinthe) under construction as the funeral pyre for the cremation of a dead priest; Photo illustrated article on Brazil nuts - a minor mystery; Six photos from filming of "Kliou", the first Technicolor film to be photographed entirely in the jungle; Two pages of photos of the "Alps" of South Africa; Page of fascinating photos illustrating the world's greatest telescopic "eye", this great 200 inch telescope disc is twice the diameter of the disc in the Hooker telescope at the Mount Wilson Observatory, the biggest at present in use; Page of photos of medieval ship carvings in a Devonshire church - sculpted 16th-century three-masters; Page of photos illustrate the coldest Easter of the century; Page of photos of the king personally bestowing the Royal Maundy to aged men and women; Magnificent centrefold aerial photo of the city of Vancouver, British Columbia - before construction of the Lion's Gate Bridge - as she celebrates her Golden Jubilee; Two pages of text and photos present a mysterious 12th Dynasty hoard - Treasures of Asiatic origin found at Toud, near Luxor; Photos of personalities of the week include Herr Leopold von Hoesch, Señor Alcala Zamora, Dr. Constantine Demerjis, Señor Martinez Barrio, and the king inspecting the Grenadier guards; Photo illustrated article on Galapagos wildlife; One-page photo illustrated Harrods ad presents pocket watches; One-page Johnnie Walker ad shows him inspecting barrels by flashlight; Interesting photo shows crowd gathered around an Imperial Airways airmail service plane at Kai Tak aerodrome, Hong Kong, after it arrived from Penang for the first time; Photos of Lt. Col. F. J. Popham, and Mr. Francis A. L. Would; Nice one-page illustrated ad for the Humber Twelve car; Back cover two-colour ad promotes The Sphere, The Tatler, The Sketch, Sporting and Dramatic News, and the Illustrated London News. Please note: pages 685-686 missing. Several interior pages loose but present. Faint store ink stamp to front cover, otherwise unmarked with moderate wear. A worthy vintage issue. Magazine
Features: Newspaper crisis; A summer of tension for Pakistan?; Taxation - the penalty for living, the punishment for death; The Ghurkas - bravest of the brave; After the moon - what next?; Apollo's heatshield helps the housewife; Original sin - and that man on the moon; May God preserve us from good taste!; What price pageantry?; Divine antics in Arcadia; Will man become a mole?; Aiglon - the school in the Alps; Healey and the great defence 'delusion'; Gainsborough at the Queen's Gallery; Tabarka; The Rolls Royce story; and more. Moderate wear. Clean and unmarked. Quality copy. Magazine
Features/Photos: JFK and his wife; The British Frigate Urchin - accused by Russia of spying; The Queen prepares for her tour of India and Pakistan; a pipelaying helicopter in Kent; The Finsteraarhorn - the highest and most elegant peak in the Bernese Alps - centrefold; Royal tour map; and more. Clean and unmarked with moderate wear. Quality copy. Magazine
Pages 273 - 312. Features: Lovely colour ad for the De Havilland Comet used by British Overseas Airways Corporation shows plane in flight; Photos of avalanche terror in the Alps - engulfed villages; Great two-page photo of the start of the famous Tasman Ocean Yacht Race; Wow - two illustrated pages describe the Alberta tar sands "containing four times the rest of the world's known oil reserves"; Photos of personalities of the week, including Spain's first ambassador to Britain since 1946, Don Miguel Primo de Rivera, and his wife; Two pages of photos of the marriage of the Shah of Iran (Persia) to his new Empress, formerly Miss Soraya Esfandiary-Bakhtiari; Photo-illustrated article on the Life of John Maynard Keynes; The Gold Coast's first steps in democracy - election photos; Two pages of photos of U.N. troops in winter war action in central Korea; Centerfold photo of incredible devastation caused by the Mount Lamington eruption; Mice demonstrate road safety in Glasgow!; Photo of huge B 36 Bomber; Restoration of St. George's Hall, King's Lynn - believed to be England's largest medieval guildhall; photos of new French and British weapons; Photos illustrated how bulky files of newspapers are transfered to tiny rolls of microfilm; Amazing photos of lying squirrels in flight; Swedish ballets; Nice colour ad for Imperial Leather toilet powder inside back cover; Nice colour ad for Jacob & Co's Cream Crackers on back cover; and more. Cover holding by one staple. Moderate wear. Unmarked. A quality vintage copy. Magazine
Cover portrait of The Duke of Abruzzi, First cousin of King Victor Emmanuel, Chief Commander of the Royal Italian Navy. Feature: Italy's war in vivid picture and story. Concluding portion of "The Mountain Battles for 'Italia Irredenta'. German Inhumanity to British Prisoners. Photos/Illustrations: full-page photo of Italian troops entrenching at the foot of a glacier on the Austrian Alps; Centerfold illustrations of heavy Italian artillery and before/after views of the Austrian armoured fort at Malborghetto, in the Carnic Alps; and more. Two pieces of tape inside front cover. Unmarked. Sound copy. Book
Cover portrait of The Duke of Aosta - he commanded the Third Italian Army, which captured Gorizia, August 9th, 1916. Feature: Austria's colossal failure in the Trentino - Austrian advance and Italian counter-offensive. Photos of troops in the Alps. Campaign in Mesopotamia to the fall of Kut (conclusion). Photos from the Tigris. Many other photos. Covers fragile but intact. Book
8vo., Second Edition, with frontispiece (original tissue guard present), coloured plate and 60 wood-engraved illustrations (a number full-page) in the text, a few relevant pencilled marginal annotations in a neat scholarly hand; handsomely bound in navy full crushed morocco, sides with gilt frame borders, back with raised bands ruled in gilt, second and fourth compartments lettered in gilt, all other compartments tooled in gilt, gilt top, hand-made endpapers, uncut, an elegant copy ideal as a gift or for presentation. With 2pp publisher's catalogue bound in at end. Dedicated to Faraday, Tyndall's classic account was first published in 1860. This revised edition, sanctioned by his widow and issued three years after his death, includes minor textual corrections and a much improved index. Equally notable both as scientist and mountaineer, Tyndall transformed his scientific interest in mountains into a keen appreciation of their beauty and pleasures. His most famous climb is probably the first ascent of the Weisshorn, but he was also a contender for the first ascent of the Matterhorn. In July 1862 (with Johann Bennen) he reached the main shoulder, only to be defeated by a deep cleft. Neate 836.
