ALPS AND ALPINISM - Hegetschweiler, Johannes. Travels... Lot 104

ALPS AND ALPINISM - Hegetschweiler, Johannes. Travels in the mountain range between Glarus and Graubünden in the years 1819, 1820 and 1822. Together with a botanical appendix and several lithographed drawings. With gest. Frontispiece, 8 lithogr. plates, 1 folded. Glacier panorama in aquatint u. 1 part-colored lithographic folding map. Zurich, Orell-Füssli, 1825. 8°. [2] pp., 193 (recte: 191) pp. paperback d. Z. with gilt spine title (somewhat light-marked). Barth 18056 - Lonchamp 1424 - Wäber 320 - First edition. - Rare account by the famous Swiss botanist of his three attempts to climb the Tödi. With the botanical appendix (8 plates). - Some foxing, otherwise a good copy. - Provenance: bookseller's label W. Junk, Berlin. - Nice alpine bookplate for Hermann Bossard with depiction of the Kehlenalp hut.