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40. Ferguson, Robert. Swiss Men and Swiss Mountains. London: Longmans, Brown, Green, Longmans, and Roberts, 1862.


First edition. 8vo. pp. viii, 143 (bound without half-title); good in contemporary half roan, gilt, worn on spine.


Wäber 1.81; not in Neate or Perret. The author’s account of his travels in Switzerland includes details of Grindelwald, the Gemmi, and the St. Bernard pass, concluding with a chapter on Mont Blanc.


41. FitzGerald, E. A. Climbs in the New Zealand Alps Being an Account of Travel and Discovery. London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1896. £375


First edition. Large 8vo. pp. xvi, 363; frontis. and 48 plates, each with tissue-guard, illusts. to text, large folding map in pocket at rear; spotting to fore-edge, else very good in the original ochre cloth with contrasting lettering-pieces, which are rubbed and chipped, t.e.g.


Cox 91; Neate F36; Perret 1676. Edward Arthur FitzGerald (1871-1931) was climbing with Martin Conway in the European Alps in 1894 when he decided to travel to New Zealand to attempt the then unclimbed Mount Cook. He enlisted the guide Mattias Zurbriggen, and travelled out to New Zealand, but discovered en route that he had been beaten to the prize by Tom Fyfe’s party in December 1894. FitzGerald, upset at not making the first ascent, contented himself with other climbs in the Southern Alps, and it was left to Zurbriggen to make a solo ascent of Mount Cook (March 1895, the second ascent). FitzGerald and Zurbriggen later went on to make a successful ascent of Aconcagua, in South America.


42. FitzGerald, E. A. The Highest Andes. A Record of the First Ascent of Aconcagua and Tupungato in Argentina, and the Exploration of the Surrounding Valleys. London: Methuen & Co., 1899.


£250


First edition. 8vo. pp. xvi, 390; numerous plates from photos., 2 folding maps; some foxing, occasionally heavy, browning to one map, previous owner’s armorial bookplate, good in the original cloth, gilt, somewhat faded on spine.


Cox 86; Neate F37; Perret 1677. FitzGerald led this 1896-7 expedition, which made the first ascent of Aconcagua, at 6961m the highest mountain outside of Asia. Several attempts were made to reach the summit, culminating in an attempt by the guide Mattias Zurbriggen and FitzGerald himself; FitzGerald succumbed to altitude sickness and sent Zurbriggen


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on to reach the summit alone in January, 1897. A month or so later the second ascent was made by Stuart Vines and the Italian guide Nicola Lanti. The expedition also undertook scientific work, reports from which are contained in four appendices.


43. Forbes, James D. Norway and its Glaciers visited in 1851; Followed by Journals of Excursions in the High Alps of Dauphiné, Berne and Savoy. Edinburgh: Adam And Charles Black, 1853. £395


First edition. 8vo. pp. xxiv, 349; 10 coloured lithos. inc. frontis., 1 woodcut plate, 19 woodcut illusts. to text, 4 maps and plans (1 large folding); minor foxing, else very good in recent half calf, contrasting lettering pieces to spine.


Abbey Travel 257; Neate F44; Perret 1708. Forbes’s account of his pioneering expedition to Norway contains some of the earliest lithographs of its glaciers and snow fields. The book also contains very nearly the sum of what was then known, in geological terms, about the country. The work is in two halves, dealing first with Norway and then, by way of comparison, with the Alps. In Norway and its Glaciers, Forbes also published for the first time an account of his ascent of the Jungfrau with Agassiz (the first British ascent). The chapters on the Alps later appeared in the same author’s Travels through the Alps. Norway and its Glaciers was rightly regarded as a classic by Cecil Slingsby, the ‘father’ of Norwegian mountaineering.


44. [Freshfield, Mrs. Jane.] Alpine Byways; or Light Leaves gathered in 1859 and 1860. By a Lady. London: Longman, Green, Longman, and Roberts, 1861.


£650


First edition. 8vo. pp. [ix], 232, 24 (publisher’s catalogue); eight tinted lithos., four maps; minor spotting, else very good in the original blind- stamped pale blue cloth, gilt, slightly darkened on spine.


Wäber 87; Neate F73; Perret 1764. A classic of the Alpine literature. Jane Quentin Freshfield (1814-1901), her husband Henry and their only child, Douglas Freshfield - later to be a prominent climber and explorer - spent their summers during the 1850s and 1860s walking and climbing in the Alps. Her first book relates details of their time in the Pennine and Bernese Alps.


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