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24. Conway, Sir William Martin. The Alps from End to End. Westminster: Archibald Constable and Co., 1895.
£125
Third edition [same year as 1st ed.]. 8vo. pp. xii,403; frontis., title-page vignette and 98 plates after originals by A. D. McCormick; ownership inscription of Wm. Ernest. Corlett, July 1895, to frontis. recto., a very clean copy in the original two-tone cloth, gilt, bumped to foot of upper joint.
Wäber II.24; Cox 20; Neate C101; Perret 1087. In 1894 Conway traversed the length of the Alps, from the Mediterranean to the Austrian Alps, accompanied throughout by two Gurkha soldiers who had returned with Conway from his Karakoram expedition of 1892. The party was also joined at various points by E. A. FitzGerald, who brought with him two guides including Louis Carrel, and Mattias Zurbriggen, who had also participated in the Karakoram expedition. This copy originally 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).
25. Conway, Sir William Martin. Aconcagua and Tierra del Fuego. A Book of Climbing, Travel and Exploration. London: Cassell & Co., [1902].
£475
First edition. 8vo. pp. xii, 252, 8 (pubs. ads); photo. illusts., double-map; slight age-toning to text, else very good in the original cloth, gilt, lettered in white to upper cover (?second issue binding).
Neate C99; Perret 1092. Aconcagua, the highest mountain in the world outside of Asia, was first climbed by Mattias Zurbriggen in 1897, on the expedition led by Edward FitzGerald (see items 42 & 110). A year later, the ascent was made by Conway, who went on to attempt Sarmiento in Tierra del Fuego, the twin peaks of which were not climbed for another fifty years. This expedition marked the end of Conway’s career as a serious mountaineer, and he bids farewell to this period of his life in the Preface to the book.
26. Conway, William Martin & A. D. McCormick. The Alps. London: Adam and Charles Black, 1904.
£150
Limited deluxe edition, one of 300 copies signed by the publishers. 4to. pp. x, 294; 70 coloured plates after McCormick’s originals, each with captioned tissue-guard; minor marginal age-toning, occasional foxing, browning to endpapers, good in the original pictorial cloth, heavily soiled to top margin of upper board, slightly darkened on spine, small chip to lower joint.
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Neate C100; Perret 1093. A general work, with descriptions of the Alps illustrated after McCormick’s original watercolours.
27. Conway, Sir William Martin. Mountain Memories. A Pilgrimage of Romance. London: Cassell and Company, Ltd., 1920.
£75 First edition. 8vo. pp. [ix], 282; photo. plates; fine in the original cloth, gilt.
Neate C106; Perret 1095. Conway climbed in the Alps, and led climbing expeditions to the Karakoram, the Andes, and Spitsbergen. His memoir recalls these episodes.
28. Coolidge, W. A. B. The Alps in Nature and History. London: Methuen & Co., 1908.
£35
First edition. 8vo. pp. xx, 440; plates, 7 folding diagrams, one folding map of the Alps; some foxing, good in the original cloth, lettering faded on spine.
Cox 23; Neate C127; Perret 1105. A geographical and historical description of the Alps, with several chapters on exploration and climbing.
29. Coolidge, W. A. B. Alpine Studies. London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1912.
£45
First edition. 8vo. pp. xiii, 307; 16 photo. plates; some foxing, else good in the original cloth, gilt, sunned on spine.
Neate C126; Perret 1103. A collection of some of Coolidge’s writings, with details
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