Forbes David W Editor (5 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Hui Hanai, Honolulu Hawaii 2019 FIrst Edition VG (green cloth w title in gilt on spine, sl worn, ex library w only library stamps and markings being on fep and security tag on rear end paper) in VG DW (sl rubbed and worn, spine sl faded).…

Hardcover. Condition: Brand New. 538 pages. Hawaiian language. 11.00x6.75x1.75 inches. In Stock.

Hardcover. Condition: Brand New. 236 pages. 9.50x6.00x1.00 inches. In Stock.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 3rd Edition. In the publishers dark green cloth, gilt titles, corners & edges worn, stain spots along front edge & dark spot to lower board. Spine, gilt titles, edges bumped & worn. Internally, tissue guarded portrait frontis, half title, [5], (vi-xxxviii), [2], [1], 2-572 pp, complete with 6 maps (folding & coloured), 9 topographical sketches within text, 1 portrait, 44 other illustrations in text, t.e.g., some faint edge browning, some pencil notes to rep, offsetting to fep. (228*162 mm). (Neate *274. Alpine Club LibCat p117). A New Edition Revised and annotated by Coolidge. The first complete edition, containing all of Forbes' Alpine writings. Containing: I. Travels through the Alps of Savoy and other parts of the Pennine chain. [1st ed., Edinburgh, 1843]--pt. II. Journals of excursions in the high Alps of Dauphiné, Berne, and Savoy. [First pub. as appendix to the author's Norway and its glaciers, 1853]--pt. III. Pedestrianism in Switzerland. [Quarterly review, April, 1857]--pt. IV. Topography of the chain of Mont Blanc. [North British review, March, 1865]. FORBES. (illustrator). …

Royal 8vo. [xxxviii] + 538pp. Port. frontis., profusely illus. throughout mainly from b/w. photos. Colour illus. e.ps., very good in d/w. US$52.