Travel, Climbing and Moutaineering - The Alpine Portfolio: T...

Travel, Climbing and Moutaineering - The Alpine Portfolio: The Pennine Alps, From the Simplon to the Great S. Bernard, Edited by Oscar Eckenstein & August Lorria, London: Published by the Editors, 62, Basinghall Street, E.C., [n.d. 1889], contemporarily bound as three volumes: Text, 34pp, Plates, 100 b/w photographs - (Volume I: 50, Volume II: 50), as called for - by Vittorio Sella, Mrs Le Blond, W.F. Donkin, mounted on thick card and tissue-guarded, contemporary blue half-morocco over buckram by F. Hockliffe, Bedford, his ticket, the upper-covers lettered in gilt, the backstrip and corner with a large fillet, above smaller double-fillets and a flowering leafy meander, the spines with lettering pieces, raised bands enclosing compartments tooled in gilt with flowers and floral devices, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers, folios (40.5cm x 34cm & 40.5cm x 31.5cm), [3], Neate E06 Provenance: Ex Libris Charles Joseph Francis, his crested bookplate to each recto pastedown.