Gesner, Conrad; Soule, H. B. D. (translator). Conrad Gesner: On the Admiration of Mountains. Grabhorn Press, 1937.

Price: US$110.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: One of 325 copies printed by the Grabhorn Press. A very good copy in cream cloth over patterned boards (light wear; some offset to endpapers and several leaves; ink gift inscription on front endpaper).

Seller: Arundel Books, Seattle, WA, U.S.A.

Gesner, Conrad; Soule, H. B. D. (translator). Conrad Gesner: On the Admiration of Mountains. Grabhorn Press, 1937.

Price: US$120.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: One of 325 copies printed by the Grabhorn Press. A very good copy in cream cloth over patterned boards (light wear; some offset to endpapers and several leaves; prior owner's ink inscription).

Seller: Arundel Books, Seattle, WA, U.S.A.

Conrad Gesner, H. B. D. Soule (Translator), J. Monroe Thorington (Bibliographical Notes), and W. Dock (Bibliographical Notes). Conrad Gesner: On the Admiration of Mountains, the prefatory letter addressed to Jacob Avienus, Physician, in Gesner's pamphlet "On Milk and Substances prepared from Milk," first printed at Zurich in 1543. A Description of the Riven Mountain, commonly called Mount Pilatus, addressed to J. Chrysostome Huber, originally printed with another work of Gesner's at Zurich in 1555. Translated by H. B. D. Soule. Together with: On Conrad Gesner and The Mountaineering of Theuerdank, by J. Monroe Thorington. Bibliographical Notes by W. Dock and J. Monroe Thorington.. The Grabhorn Press, 1937.

Price: US$122.50 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: Very Good, Limited Edition, one of 325 copies, First Edition thus, 8vo, 11 1/2" x 8 1/2." Beige patterned cloth-covered boards backed with beige cloth. Brown and orange motifs decorate the front and back. Pink-orange lettering to spine. Covers are darkened with slightly bumped tips and edge wear, else clean and intact, binding tight. Pages clean and intact except for age-toning, occasional faint marks, and offsetting to endpapers. A beautiful book with fine paper featuring artfully made text and illustrations. 54 pp., including eight black-and-white illustrations. Back colophon: "Three hundred & twenty-five copies printed by Edwin & Robert Grabhorn, San Francisco; Initial letters by Dorothy Grover. Binding by W. Wheeler." Remarkable book printed by the founders of the renowned Grabhorn Press, Edwin & Robert Grabhorn. Reprint of a treatise and love letter to the Alps by the Swiss botanist, naturalist, physician, and author, Conrad Gesner (1516-1565), in which he writes of the beauties of the mountains and the joys of mountaineering. Excerpt from W. Dock's introduction: "In the translation of those pages and the reproduction of the earliest Alpine plates we hope to awaken even after four centuries something of the wonder of the days when Conrad Gesner botanized, when Emperor Maximilian hunted the chamois, and both, climbing in the mountains for study and for sport, found recreation and intense delight."

Seller: Amatoria Fine Art Books, IOBA, CALIBA, Sacramento, CA, U.S.A.

Gesner, Conrad. On the Admiration of Mountains. first printed at Zürich in 1543. [with] A Description of the Riven Mountain, commonly called Mount Pilatus. originally printed with another work of Gesner's at Zürich in 1555. The Grabhorn Press, San Francisco, 1937.

Price: US$350.00 + shipping

Description: One of 325 copies. Our binding is an unrecorded variant with a printed paper spine label rather than the orange spine lettering. Translated by H. B. D. Soule. Small quarto. [2], 54pp. Three illustrated initials by Dorothy Grover, eight reproductions of early woodcuts by Hans Leonhard Schaufelin. Tan decorated boards, tan cloth spine with printed paper label. Light foxing to edges of two pages, small spot to rear cover, else a fine copy. Also includes an essay on Gesner by J. Monroe Thorington, with bibliographical notes by W. Dock. This essay, written by Gesner, a Swiss philosopher in the middle ages, is generally regarded as the first mention in print of climbing mountains for pleasure. This Grabhorn printing is the only modern version and is quite scarce. [Farquhar, Literature of Mountaineering: p.513; Grabhorn: 273].

Seller: Argonaut Book Shop, ABAA, San Francisco, CA, U.S.A.