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‎The Alpine regions of Switzerland and the neighbouring countries; a pedestrian's notes on their physical features, scenery, and natural history.‎

‎Cambridge, (C.J. Clay for) Deighton, Bell, (and) London, Bell and Daldy, 1868, in-8°, XVI + 1 small Errata leaf + 352 p., illustrated with 15 figures + 5 wood-engraved plates including the frontispiece, Exlibris from Peter E. Obergfell, Bound in green cloth covers. Very fine copy in orig. publisher’s binding.‎

‎First edition, with 20 illustration of which 15 full page, after the drawings by E. Whymper. The reverend T.G. Bonney, geologist, was president of the Alpine Club from 1881 to 1883. He travelled and climbed in the Alpes for over 50 years. Ouvrage classique, bien illustré par E. Whymper, recherché”.A fine copy of this book, by one of the most distinguished figures in British climbing through-out the last quarter of the 19th c. He acquired an intimate personal knowledge of almost the whole of the Alpine chains. Perret 579; de Beer, Travellers in the Alps 322; Neate B136. ‎