ILLUSTRATED: 1 vignette, 1 frontis, 28 fine steel engraved plates with tissue guards. The attractive plates include many by J. M. W. Turner and T. Allom Roberts. Book 2: Minor foxing to plate margins, little harm to plates.
Illustration: Signed on front inside pp. Several b/w full pp. and vignettes prints throughout, 1 folded map with clrd. Outlines but brittle.
Illustration Condition: Average
Binding: 25×16.5cm., Pp. xxviii, 709, 1pp. of adverts.; full brown cl. with image of mountain-climbers in black and white to cover with black title, gilt title to sp. with image, minor wormholes, cover frayed and binding loose, title pp. missing, sl. underlining in color pencil by previous owner.
Illustration: 59 sepia toned reprints from photos, several multi-folding clrd. maps, tables in text, water staing to margins of few pl. in beginning, else fine. Condition: Good+ Binding: 10.5×7”, pp. xv, 390; orig. blue buckram with gilt title to sp., sp. sl. sunned, binding sl. loose, edges thumbed, marginal foxing. Condition: Good