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.
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.
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. Conrad Gesner: On the Admiration of Mountains. The Grabhorn Press, 1937.
Price: US$139.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Cover and spine are tanned with age; rubbed edges and corners; pages are wavy from exposure to humidity. Ships with tracking the same or next business day from New Haven, CT. We fully guarantee to ship the exact same item as listed and work hard to maintain our excellent customer service.
Seller: Book Trader Cafe, LLC, New Haven, CT, U.S.A.
Price: US$175.00 + shipping
Description: weight: 1.0 lb. Very good, light soiling and small chips to cover foredge. bookplate to pastedown. 8 woodcut illustrations. 4to., 29.3x21 cm. 55 pp. Quarter tan cloth over decorated cloth boards.
Seller: Zephyr Books, Reno, NV, U.S.A.
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Light rubbing to the corners. Edition limited to 325 copies. Fast shipping with free delivery confirmation.
Seller: The Calico Cat Bookshop, Ventura, CA, U.S.A.
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.