Large paper copy for an American mountaineer

Frommel, C[arl Ludwig]. Tyrol und seine nächsten Umgebungen. Nach der Natur gemalt.

€ 6,500.00

1841's annual gift for the members of the "Kunstverein für das Großherzogtum Baden" on supersized paper (ca. 56 x 42 cm). Contains views of Ambras castle, Berchtesgaden, Bozen, Finstermünz, Hohenschwangau, Innsbruck, Meran, Riva, Salzburg (2), etc. The notes by A. Lewald, bound here in their entirety, were only available separately, for which reason complete copies with the entire text are very rare.

Edges slightly foxed; binding rubbed; extremeties bumped. Bookplate of the American ophthalmologist and mountaineer J. Monroe Thorington (1894-89), who made the first ascent of Mount Saskatchewan and who presented the volume to the American Alpine Club in 1935 (cf. their bookplate).