Scrambles Amongst the Alps and Down the Rhine


By: Whymper, Edward; Murphy, Lady Blanche

Price: $200.00

Quantity: 1 available

Condition: Very Good

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Very clean hardcover book, published circa 1890 (n.d), with bevelled edge boards in dark green pebbled cloth with red and black decoration (mountain climbers), red lettering on cover; gold lettering and decoration on spine. Very tiny spot of wear to one corner tip and one lower spine corner. Binding is tight and square, hinges are sound. All page edges gilt. Clean decorated endpapers. Brief previous owner inscription dated 1889 neatly penned on blank side of frontispiece. Beautiful frontispiece engraving with detached tissue guard. Wonderful illustrations throughout. 164 pages and 75 pages.

Title: Scrambles Amongst the Alps and Down the Rhine

Author Name: Whymper, Edward; Murphy, Lady Blanche

Location Published: Cleveland, Ohio, The Burrows Brothers: 1890

Binding: Hardcover

Book Condition: Very Good

Jacket Condition: No Jacket

Type: Book

Categories: Adventure/Travel, Decorated American Trade Binding, DATB

Seller ID: 033753

Keywords: adventure, alps, antiquarian, datb, decorated american trade binding, edward whymper, european adventure, illustrated, lady blanche murphy, mountaineering, rhine river, travel