45. Freshfield, Douglas W. The Exploration of the Caucasus … With Illustrations by Vittorio Sella. London & New York: Edward Arnold, 1896.


£3,750


Deluxe limited edition, one of 100 copies. 2 vols. 4to. pp. xxiii, 278 & x, 295; photogravure frontis. to each vol., 79 full-page illustrations, mostly photogravures, 3 large folding panoramic views, numerous illusts. to text, 4 maps inc. large folding map to rear pocket of vol. II; embrowning to endpapers, else very good in the original parchment-backed salmon-pink buckram, gilt, t.e.g., remainder untrimmed, somewhat soiled on spines, minor bumping to extremities, internally a fine fresh set.


Cox 44; Neate F64; Perret 1759. Freshfield was an early visitor to the Caucasus, and made his first attempt on Elbrus in 1868, visiting the region again several times. In the present volumes he brought together much information on the area. The photographs, which include the well-known dramatic picture of Ushba, the “Matterhorn of the Caucasus”, were by the mountain photographer, Vittorio Sella, who made expeditions to the Caucasus in 1889. The Deluxe edition or the work is particularly fine, with the photographs printed on wide- marginned leaves.


47. Freshfield, Douglas W. Round Kangchenjunga. London: Edward Arnold, 1903.


£675


First edition. 8vo. pp. xvi, 373; 40 plates, one folding panorama, 1 map to text, 2 folding maps; spotting to fore-edge, else very good in the original cloth, gilt, faded with mottling to spine, initials incised to upper board, still a very good copy.


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Neate F69; Yakushi F124a; Perret 1760. Freshfield, who had previously climbed in the Alps and the Caucasus, visited the Himalaya in 1899 with Vittorio Sella, the renowned Alpine photographer, and the geologist Edmund Garwood. They made a circuit around Kangchenjunga, commencing at Darjeeling and crossing to the Zemu Glacier, from where Sella took stunning images of the peaks.


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46. Freshfield, Douglas W. Travels in the Central Caucasus and Bashan including Visits to Arafat and Tabreez and Ascents of Kazbek and Elbruz. London: Longmans, Green, and Co. 1869.


£425


First edition. 8vo. pp. xv, 509; chromolithographic frontispiece, 3 folding maps, 4 wood-engraved plates, wood engravings to text; some foxing at front and rear, good in contemporary full calf, gilt decorated spine, faded on spine and somewhat worn to extremities.


Neate F71; Perret 1757. Douglas Freshfield (1845-1934) was one of


the great names in mountain exploration. He made the journey described here


from Bashan (northern Jordan and southern Syria) up into the


Caucasus, with stays in Tiflis (Tblisi), Pyatigorsk and ascents of peaks there. Freshfield writes in the hope that “the record of our adventures in the mountain fastnesses may prove of sufficient interest to draw the attention of our countrymen to a range surpassing the Alps by two thousand feet in the average height of its peaks, abounding in noble scenery and picturesque inhabitants, and even now within the reach of many ‘long-vacation tourists’”. A fascinating work and one which laid the basis for the same author’s classic The Exploration of the Caucasus (see previous item).


48. Galton, Francis, ed. Vacation Tourists, and Notes of Travel in 1860. London: Macmillan and Co., 1861.


£175


First edition. 8vo. pp. viii, 483; four maps inc. one folding, a few illusts. to text; good in contemporary prize binding for the Blackheath Proprietory School, a.e.g., front joint repaired, lower joint cracked and a little worn, bumped to extremities.


Wäber I.88; Neate G03; not in Perret. Galton (1822-1911), a half-cousin of Charles Darwin, was something of a polymath, with a passing interest in mountaineering. The present volume, the first of three separately published works by this title (others were published for the years 1861 and 1862) includes his account of a visit to the Pyrenees while in northern Spain to observe a solar eclipse. Other articles in this volume were contributed by J. J. Cowell on the Graian Alps, Leslie Stephen on the Allelein-Horn, F.V. Hawkins on his 1860 Matterhorn attempt with John Tyndall, and Tyndall’s own account of his Æggischhorn traverse.


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