Studer (Gottlieb). Topographische Mittheilungen aus dem Alpengebirge. I - Die Eiswüsten und Selten betretenen Hochalpen und Bergspitzen des Kantons Bern und angrenzender Gebiete. Bern and St. Gallen, Huber und Comp, 1843. 2 volumes in-8° (text and atlas), publisher's illustrated blue boards, in publisher's blue slipcase. First edition of the first part, the only one published. Illustrated with a frontispiece (text volume) and 8 fold-out panoramas, including 3 in colour and one on a buff background (atlas). Bound in two volumes by the publisher, in lithographed light blue boards (1 view and 1 vignette with frames for the text volume, and a title and a view for the atlas); the two volumes are housed in a slipcase bearing the title Studers Hochalpen on the spine. Angular staining on the first few leaves of the text volume. The atlas is in perfect condition. The work describes the Bernese and Valais Alps. On the subject of the Eiger, the author declares it to be absolutely invincible: "Its summit rises like a blade so sharp that, even from a distance, the observer can only confirm this assertion". Fifteen years later, however, the impossible became a reality: on 11 August 1858, the famous guides Christian Almer and Peter Bohren from Grindelwald led the Irish mountaineer Charles Barrington to the summit via the west face. Perret, 4157 - Regards sur les Alpes 60 - Coolidge 152 (2nd edition) - Waeber I, 76 (without atlas)