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GEORGE, Hereford Brooke 
The Oberland and its glaciers: explored and illustrated with ice-axe and camera ... With twenty-eight photographic illustrations by Ernest Edwards ... 
Shelfmark: Cup.410.g.225. 
Publisher: London: Alfred W. Bennett ..., 1866. [2], xii, 243, [1]p., frontispiece, [9] leaves of plates, fold. plate (map): ill. 4° (27 cm). 
Country: England 
Subject: Zurich Oberland (Switzerland) - Glaciers 
Acquisition: CRO 17 Nov 1866 
Notes: Notes by the photographer: pp.237-243. 
Photographer: Edwards, Ernest 
Contains photos of: Landscapes 
General photo size: From 7 x 7 cms to 17 x 13.5 cms approx. 
Photographs:
1   Upper ice fall of the Oberland Grindelwald glacier. [Frontispiece] 
2   Peaks on a cloudy day. [Titlepage vignette] 
3   On the Unter Grindelwald glacier. [illus., p. 5] 
4   Glacier motion - ice and rock. [illus,. p. 12] 
5   The Rhone glacier. [pl., opp. p. 23] 
6   Waved surface of the Aar glacier. [illus., p. 25] 
7   Ice needles - Unter Grindelwald glacier. [pl., opp. p. 27] 
8   The Jungfrau Joch. [pl., opp. p. 37] 
9a   Medial moraine on the Ober Aletsch glacier. [Two photographs, opp. p. 57] 
9b   Medial moraine on the Ober Aletsch glacier. [opp. p. 57] 
10   A dirt cone. [illus., p. 59] 
11   A glacier table. [illus., p. 62] 
12a   An active moulin. [Two photographs, opp. p. 66] 
12b   An active moulin. [opp. p. 66] 
13a   An extinct moulin. [Two photographs, p. 68] 
13b   An extinct moulin. [p. 68] 
14   A glacier remanié. [illus., p. 70] 
15   The Viescherhörner from the Eismeer path. [pl., opp. p. 78] 
16   Final fall of Unter Grindelwald glacier. [illus., p. 87] 
17   The Lauteraar Joch from the Abschwung. [pl., opp. p. 109] 
18   A glacier fountain. [illus., p. 124] 
19   The Ober Aletsch glacier from the Sparrenhorn. [pl., opp. p.141] 
20   The Oberland Mountains from the Torrenthorn. [pl., opp. p. 143] 
21   The Nesthorn, from the Ober Aletsch glacier. [pl., opp. p. 154] 
22   The gorge of the Massa. [illus., p. 171] 
23   Ice-peak - Ober Aletsch glacier. [illus., p. 177] 
24   The Oeschinen See and Blümlis Alp. [pl., opp. p. 202] 
25   Striations opposite the Grimsel. [illus., p. 221] 
26   Striations beside the Unter Grindelwald glacier. [illus., p. 223] 
27   Glacier stream on the Eismeer. [illus., p. 227] 
28   Terminal cave of the Unter Grindelwald glacier. [illus., p. 235] 

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