On the admiration of mountains
Subtitle: the prefatory letter addressed to Jacob Avienus, physician, in Gesner's pamphlet "On milk and substances prepared from milk," first printed at Zürich in 1543. A description of the Riven mountain, commonly called Mount Pilatus, addressed to J. Chrysostome Huber, originally printed with another work of Gesner's at Zürich in 1555.
By: Translated by H. B. D. Soulé. Together with: On Conrad Gesner and the mountaineering of Theuerdank, by J. Monroe Thorington. Bibliographical notes by W. Dock and J. Monroe Thorington
Contributors: Soulé, Henry Douglas Bacon, 1888-; Dock, William, 1898-; Thorington, James Monroe, 1894-
Publisher: Grabhorn Press
Published: 1937
Place of publication: San Francisco
Language: eng
Number of pages: 54
Subjects: Teuerdank; Mountaineering; Pilatus, Mount
Notes: At head of title: Conrad Gesner

"[The] illustrations are from plates ... in the early editions of Thewrdanckh."--p. [55]

"Three hundred & twenty-five copies printed."

Bibliography: p. 52-54