The Oberland and Its Glaciers Explored and Illustrated with Ice-Axe and Camera. With Twenty-Eight Photographic Illustrations By Ernest Edwards, B.A., And a Map of the oberland

Hardcover. Original red cloth with title lettering and cover vignette gilt, ruled in gilt; bevelled boards; all edges gilt. xii, (map), 243 pp. + 9 plates hors du texte. Illustrated with a doublespread map and 28 remarkably sharp photographs by Ernest Edwards. The photographic illustrations were printed separately, with 9 of the larger ones being mounted on plates hors du texte, and the remainder mounted into the text. Spine and borders faded; head of spine chipped and frayed, with some wear to tail; some wear to corners; front hinge started; one plate detached, and foxing throughout, though most of the text is actually quite bright & clean with ALL PHOTOGRAPHS PRESENT, many of startling brightness and clarity. A spectacular book on the Bernese Highlands in the Swiss Alps, the result of an expedition organized to support John Tyndall’s theories of glacial movement.