Italian Alps, Sketches in the Mountains of Ticino, Lombardy, the Trentino and Venetia
London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1875.
First Edition. xviii, 385 pp, with 5 folding maps and 9 wood-engraved plates, in original decorative green cloth. Near fine, with rubbing to corners. Small bookseller's label (B. Westermann & Co.) on front pastedown, contemporary ownership signature on half-title. An account of travel and climbing in the Italian Alps based on Freshfield's journals from seven summer excusrions. The book's "chief claim to interest," according to Freshfield, "lies in the fact that [it deals] with portions of the Alpine chain about which English readers have hiterhto found no information in their own language except in guide books." Neate F66.
Item #22757
Price: $300.00