20. Conway and Coolidge’s Climbers’ Guides. The Central Alps of the Dauphiny by W. A. B. Coolidge, H. Duhamel & F. Perrin [with] Maps of the Dauphiny Alps [so titled to upper cover]. London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1892.


£175


First editions. Together 2 vols. 12mo. pp. xix, 248, [2, ads.], [24, ruled notepaper]; 6 folding maps laid down on linen to second volume; very good in the original wallet-style buckram, gilt, t.e.g., slightly rubbed, pencils wanting (as usual). Ownership inscription of Wm. Ernest Corlett, 1892 to first volume.


Neate C116; Perret 1109; Moss et al. AL019. In 1881, Martin Conway published his Zermatt Pocket-Book, a climbing guide to the Alps and progenitor of all subsequent Alpine guides. Conway later joined forces with the Alpinist William Coolidge to produce a series of Alpine guides which appeared from 1890 onwards. This copy of the guide to the Central Alps of Dauphiny belonged to William Ernest Corlett (c. 1866-1960), a Liverpool solicitor who climbed in the Alps and Wales (an obituary notice appeared in the Climber’s Club Journal for 1961, pp. 236-7).


21. Conway and Coolidge’s Climbers’ Guides. The Adula Alps by W. A. B. Coolidge. London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1893.


£150


First edition. 12mo. pp. xix, 192, [24, ruled notepaper]; very good in the original wallet-style buckram, gilt, t.e.g., slightly rubbed, pencil wanting (as usual).


Neate C110; Perret 1109; Moss et al. AL021. 6


20 - 21 - 22


22. Conway and Coolidge’s Climbers’ Guides. The Range of the Tödi by W. A. B. Coolidge. London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1894. £125


First edition. 12mo. pp. xxxi, 167, [28, ruled notepaper]; very good in the original wallet-style buckram, gilt, t.e.g., slightly rubbed, cloth split along spine, pencil wanting (as usual). Ownership inscription of A. E. Westen, 1900.


Neate C122; Perret 1109; Moss et al. AL023.


23 23. Conway, Sir William Martin. Climbing and Exploration in the Karakoram-Himalayas. London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1894. £1,750


First edition. 8vo. 2 vols. (Text/Scientific Reports). Text: pp. xxviii, 709, [1, ad.], with numerous illusts. from drawings by A.D. McCormick, one folding map; Reports: pp. viii, 127, with a photogravure frontis. of Conway, and two maps contained in pockets at front and rear; inner hinges of text vol. cracked, near-fine in the original cloth, gilt, pictorial vignettes to upper covers and spine of text vol., t.e.g., small ink spot to upper cover of Reports vol.


Cox 43; Neate C103; Yakushi (3rd ed.) C336a; Perret 1088. “This work describes the first major British expedition to explore and climb in the Himalaya, one of the greatest of all mountain explorations. It accomplished a number of firsts and laid the groundwork for later explorations. Conway, who organized and led the expedition, climbed a 23,000-foot peak and traversed three great glaciers - the Hispar, Biafo, and Baltoro…” (Cox). The expedition included Charles G. Bruce, later to lead the 1922 Everest climbing expedition. The second volume of scientific reports, often lacking, contains essays on geological, zoological, botanical and medical aspects of the expedition by A. G. Durand, Conway, Bonney, and others.


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