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49. George, Hereford Brooke. The Oberland and its Glaciers: Explored and Illustrated with Ice-Axe and Camera … with Twenty- Eight Photographic Illustrations by Edward Edwards. London: Alfred W. Bennett, 1866.


£775


First edition. 4to. pp. xii, 243; 11 large-format mounted real photographs (140 x 90mm) and 17 smaller real photographs (85 x 65mm) mounted to title-page or text, one double-page lithographic map of the Bernese Oberland; some occasional foxing, tissue guards heavily embrowned, some photographs somewhat faded to margins, else good in the original blue cloth, gilt, gilt vignette of ice-axe and camera to upper board, a.e.g., a little wear to head and tail of spine.


Wäber I.143; Neate 305; Perret 1884. A photographic ‘incunable’ of the Alpine literature. Hereford George (1838-1910) made significant climbs in the Alps, and the present work records ascents made with Edward Edwards, A. Mortimer, and G. Young. Interspersed with his descriptions are discussions of glaciological theory, illustrated by photographs of Alpine scenes and glaciers commissioned by George from Edwards. This “new and useful combination” of photographs and text resulted in one of the earliest photographically illustrated books on the Alps.


50. Girdlestone, Rev. A. G. The High Alps without Guides: being a Narrative of Adventures in Switzerland, together with chapters on the practicability of such mode of mountaineering, and suggestions for its accomplishment. London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1870.


£975


First edition. 8vo. pp. x, 181, [2, ads.]; wood-eng. frontis. by Edward Whymper, 2 folding maps; Horace Walker’s copy with his bookplate, very good in the original blind-stamped blue cloth, gilt, small chips to spine.


Wäber I.94; Neate G30; Perret 1947 (“Important et rare ouvrage”). The Matterhorn accident of 1865, in which Edward Whymper saw four member of his party fall to their deaths, sent a shock wave through the mountaineering community. Although not himself a particularly competent climber, Girdlestone advocated climbing without guides - the majority of the episodes narrated in his High Alps were made without them. The publication of High Alps for this reason brought Girdlestone some renown amongst climbers. Few copies of the book were issued - according to Neate not more than 100 copies - and this copy belonged to the mountaineer Horace Walker (1838-1908), President of the Alpine Club from 1891-3, who made the first ascent of Mount Elbrus in the Caucasus.


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51. Girdlestone, Rev. A. G. The High Alps without Guides: being a Narrative of Adventures in Switzerland, together with chapters on the practicability of such mode of mountaineering, and suggestions for its accomplishment. London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1870.


£575


First edition. 8vo. pp. x, 181, [2, ads.]; wood-eng. frontis. by Edward Whymper, 2 folding maps; one map misfolded, else good in the original blind-stamped blue cloth, gilt, rebacked with the original spine laid down.


52. Gribble, Francis. The Story of Alpine Climbing. London: George Newnes Ltd., 1904.


£25


First edition. 12mo. pp. [vii], 180; plates; minor spotting, else very good in the original pictorial cloth, slightly rubbed.


Neate G68; Perret 2057. A history of the subject for the young reader, with an emphasis on major episodes such as the first ascent of Mont Blanc and the 1865 Matterhorn accident.


53. Grove, Florence Craufurd. ‘The Frosty Caucasus’. An Account of a Walk through part of the Range and an Ascent of Elbruz in the summer of 1874. London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1875.


£150


First edition. 8vo. pp. x, 341, [2, ads.]; frontis. and 5 plates after originals by Edward Whymper, one extending map; slight foxing, else good in recent half calf, gilt, contrasting lettering-pieces.


Neate G75; Perret 2069. Grove was one of the ablest climbers of his day, and President of the Alpine Club 1884-6. He only wrote this one book-length account of his climbs, and it describes the ascent, with Frederic Gardiner, of Elbruz in the Caucasus.


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