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Travels through Sweden, Finland, and Lapland, to the North Cape in the Years 1798 and 1799
Author(s):
Acerbi, Joseph
Copyright:
1802, Joseph Mawman, London
Specifications:
1st, 4to, 2 vol, pp.xxiv, 396, viii, 380, vol 1 w/ frontis, 7 engraved plates, fldg map (listed as being in vol 2), vol 2 w/ 8 engraved plates (5 color), appendix, marbled edges, full brown calf boards w/ gilt-dec spine/edges & raised bands
Condition:
all 4 covers & ffeps off but present, spines solid, Lyon & AAC/Thorington (blacked out) bookplates, good
Internally, this is quite a nice copy of this important work with wide margins and nice clean sheets, with some offsetting of plates as expected. The large folding map has a minor fold separation. The Lyon bookplate may be that of Francis Bowes Lyon (1856-1948) uncle to the Queen Mother. If the covers were attached this would be in the $2000 range. Overall a nice copy of this work, most suitable for rebinding.
Thorington, James Monroe (1894 – 1989) – AAC President (1941-43), Honorary Member (1949), member Alpine Club (honorary), Alpine Club of Canada (honorary), Deutschen und Österreichischen Alpenverein, Club Alpin Francais, Schweizer Alpen-Club, and the Royal Geographical Society. Thorington was a member of the AAC for 64 years and editor of the AAJ for 12 years. Under Thorington, the Club became “the publisher of last resort” for mountaineers, ensuring that information was published which would otherwise not see the light of day. Thorington was perhaps the ultimate scholar of alpinism for the Club and involved in producing a long series of guide books. He spent many years climbing in the Canadian Northwest, with over 50 ascents, the Alps, England, Norway, Lapland, and Sicily. Mount Thorington, in the Purcell Range, bears his name. Thorington was the author of ‘The Glittering Mountains of Canada’ (1925), ‘Mont Blanc Sideshow’ (1934), ‘A Survey of Early American Ascents In the Alps In the Nineteenth Century’ (1943), ‘The Purcell Range of British Columbia’ (1946), translator and editor of Kain’s ‘Where the Clouds Can Go’ (1935), as well as numerous articles. Very few members gave so much of themselves to the Club.
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