The Oberland and its Glaciers: Explored and Illustrated with Ice- Axe and Camera . . . with Twenty-Eight Photographic Illustrations by Edward Edwards. George, Hereford Brooke. Alps,Mountaineering,Photography

First edition. 4to. pp. xii, 243; 11 large-format mounted real photographs (140 x 90mm) and 17 smaller real photographs (85 x 65mm) mounted to title-page or text, one double-page lithographic map of the Bernese Oberland; lacking the flyleaf, ex libris Ladies Alpine Club with bookplate to half-title and previous owner's bookplate to front pastedown, some occasional spotting, tissue guards embrowned, some photographs somewhat faded to margins, else good in the original cloth, gilt, gilt vignette of ice-axe and camera to upper board, a.e.g., somewhat faded to spine. A photographic 'incunable' of the Alpine literature. Hereford George (1838-1910) made significant climbs in the Alps, and the present work records ascents made with Edward Edwards, A. Mortimer, and G. Young. Interspersed with his descriptions are discussions of glaciological theory, illustrated by photographs of Alpine scenes and glaciers commissioned by George from Edwards. This "new and useful combination" of photographs and text resulted in one of the earliest photographically illustrated books on the Alps.