Bonney (Thomas George) The Peaks and Valleys of the Alps, additional tinted lithographed title, 21 plates chromolithographed by J.H. Lowes after Elijah Walton, each mounted as issued with printed caption in margin, tissue guards, additional title with repair to fore-margin, patch of browning visible to additional title and first few ff. of text, patch of damp-staining visible at upper margin of later plates and text, original half morocco, lettered in gilt on upper cover, repair to upper cover affecting a few letters, a little rubbed, g.e., [Bobins 1419], folio, Sampson Low, Son and Marston, 1868.

⁂ A fine series of views, primarily of the Western Alps, including the Matterhorn, Mont Blanc, Monte Viso, Aosta Valley, Dent Du Midi, and The Grivola. Walton was commissioned by William Matthews, founder of the Alpine Club, to capture a series of views of the Alps, a project that would occupy him for the next 5 years. The text was provided by the geologist T. G. Bonney, who would go on to become the president of the Alpine Club in 1881.