Climbs in the New Zealand Alps. Being an Account of Travel and Discovery. ...

This is a rare or used book from the Berkelouw Rare Books Department.

London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1896. Thick Sm. 4to. Orig. dec. ochre cloth (recased) with titling to spine. Top edge gilt other edges uncut. (xvi, 364pp.). With frontispiece, 48 full-page plates, text-illusts many from drawings by Joseph Pennell, H.G. Willink, a.o., and a large folding col. map of the southern alps in endpocket.First Edition, limited to 1000 copies only with title-page printed in red/black ink. Minor foxing, otherwise a very good copy. NOTE: Includes contributions by other famous mountaineers including Sir Martin Conway, Professor T.G. Bonney, and C.L. Barrow.