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The Alps in the last Century.
1870, in-8vo, 14 p. double column text, (page numbrd. 167 upto 180, taken from an ‘August’ issue of an English periodical), taken out of a ‘Sammelband’, brown wrapper with author and title on first cover + S.A.C. stamp of the Basel section.
Stephen was one of the most prominent figures in the golden age of alpinism and his book, the ‘Playground of Europe’ which immediately became a mountaineering classic, is even today well known.
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The Playground of Europe. New impression. ,The silver library’.
London, Longmans,Green, and Co., 1899, sm. in-8vo, frontispiece ('Ascent of the Rothhorn') + XI + 1 ll. + 339 p. + 2 plates, title with a vignette ('Valley of Lauterbrunnen') + 32 p. Publ. catalogue, exlibris Peter E. Obergfell, ill. orig. cloth, spine with title & ill. gilt. Fine copy.
New édition. By one of the most famous personalities in mountaineering and his book ranks among the best in climbing literature. Indispensable for the knowledge of the history of alpinisme. It contains some exciting descriptions of author's ascents of the Schreckhorn, the Rothhorn, the Eiger-, Jungfrau-, Viescher-Joch a.o. Perret 4151; Encycl. Britannica XXI/386. Image disp.
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