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George, H(ereford) B(rooke). The Oberland and its Glaciers: Explored and Illustrated with Ice-Axe and Camera. With 28 photographic illustrations by Ernest Edwards and with a map of the Oberland.

With frontispiece and 10 albumen photographs on plates, photographic title-vignette and 17 albumen photographs in the text. With double-page lithographic map of the Bernese Oberland. XII, 243 pp. 4to. Orig. blue cloth with gilt stamped spine and front board. – London, Alfred W. Bennett, 1866.

First edition. The British historian H. B. George (1838–1910) was the founder of the Oxford Alpine Club. From 1860 to 1862 he visited several times the Bernese alps where he was the first to achieve the Grosses Fiescherhorn. His present publication had the aim to populrarise the glacier theory of John Tyndall. The British photographer Ernest Edwards (1837–1903) was one of the prime pioneer photographers of his time. His works are collected as well by the National Portrait Gallery in London as they are present in the Getty Collections. – Spine ends worn. Edges and corners rubbed. Inside fine. – Best.-Nr. 23638