Title: On the Admiration of Mountains.... First printed at Zurich in 1543. A Description of the Riven Mountain...originally printed...at Zurich in 1555. Together with: On Conrad Gesner and The Mountaineering of Theuerdank, by J. Monroe Thorington Author: Gesner, Conrad. Place: San Francisco Publisher: Grabhorn Press Date: 1937 Description: Bibliographical notes by W. Dock & J. Monroe Thorington. Illustrated after 8 original woodcuts by Hans Leonhard Schaufelin; initial letters by Dorothy Grover. 11¼x8, quarter linen & patterned boards. One of 325 copies by Edwin & Robert Grabhorn. Lot Amendments Condition: Slightest darkening to endpapers and preface leaf, a few very minor spots; about fine. Item number: 153568
Title: On the Admiration of Mountains.... First printed at Zurich in 1543. A Description of the Riven Mountain...originally printed...at Zurich in 1555. Together with: On Conrad Gesner and The Mountaineering of Theuerdank, by J. Monroe Thorington Author: Gesner, Conrad. Place: San Francisco Publisher: Grabhorn Press Date: 1937 Description: Bibliographical notes by W. Dock & J. Monroe Thorington. Illustrated after 8 original woodcuts by Hans Leonhard Schaufelin; initial letters by Dorothy Grover. 11¼x8, quarter linen & patterned boards. One of 325 copies by Edwin & Robert Grabhorn. Lot Amendments Condition: Slightest darkening to endpapers and preface leaf, a few very minor spots; about fine. Item number: 153568
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