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    By Amelia Blanford Edwards
    London   Longmans, Green & Co.
    9.5" by 7" xxvi [3], 4-385pp
    An illustrated first edition account of two Victorian women's exploration of the Dolomites.
    By Amelia Blanford Edwards

    1873 Untrodden Peaks and Unfrequented Valleys: A Midsummer Ramble in the Dolomites.

    London   Longmans, Green & Co.
    9.5" by 7" xxvi [3], 4-385pp
    An illustrated first edition account of two Victorian women's exploration of the Dolomites.
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    Colour Plates, First Edition, Folding Maps, Illustrated, Publishers' Original Binding

    The first edition of this work from Amelia Blanford Edwards, an English novelist, journalist, traveller and Egyptologist. Edwards even gained the nickname 'Godmother of Egyptology' for her contribution to the field.

    Illustrated with a folding colour map of the author's route, nine full plate engraved illustrations, and numerous further vignette illustrations. Collated, complete.

    Edwards first heard about the Dolomites in 1853, through sketches brought back to England from Italy. On 27 June 1872, she embarked on a trip through the mountains with her friend Lucy Renshaw, hiring mountain guides from the region. After her descent from the mountains, Edwards described civilized life as a 'dead-level World of Commonplace', and described her adventures among the mountains in this work.

    Condition

    In the publisher's original cloth binding. Bumping to spine head and tail. Head of front and rear joints starting, with cloth fraying but boards holding firm. Internally, firmly bound. The odd spot to pages, otherwise generally clean and bright.

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