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67. Luc, Jean André de. Reisen nach den Eisgebürgen von Faucigny in Savoyen. Aus dem Französischen übersetzt. Leipzig: Weidmanns Erben und Reich, 1777.
£450
First German edition. 12mo. pp. 174; engraved vignette to title-page, eng. tail-piece at end; minor age-toning, else very good in contemporary papered boards with paper lettering piece, slightly rubbed.
Wäber 176; see Meckly 116 for the French edition (Relation de differents voyages dans les Alpes du Faucigny, 1776); Perret 1271. An account of attempts on the Buet in 1765, 1770 and 1776. Luc (1727-1817) offers details of the use of the hygrometer, with discussion of Mont Blanc at pp. 160ff.
68. Lunn, Henry S. The Grindelwald Conference 1894. A Holiday in the Bernese Oberland, with extensions to Mont Blanc, the Matterhorn, and the St. Gothard, the Italian Lakes, the Engadine, and the Falls of the Rhine. London, ?1894.
£95
?First edition. 8vo. pp. 167, 40, 47, xxxvi; ports., illusts., 4 folding maps, one double-page map; MS list of maps to frontis. recto, minor foxing, contents a little shaken in the original cloth, gilt, minor soiling or staining.
Wäber II.42. Henry Simpson Lunn (1859-1939) was the founder of Lunn Poly, one of Britain’s largest travel companies. In the 1890s he organised the Grindelwald conferences, a series of meetings intended “to secure a really refreshing holiday in every sense of the word” (p. 14). The conferences gave opportunities for travel, alongside a programme with religious and cultural content. Among the speakers called in for the 1894 Conference were Edward Whymper, Edmund Gosse, Sir Robert Ball, and various divines. The present book was compiled to provide those attending with a programme, hints on travel, hotels, costs, and the like.
69. Mannering, George Edward. With Axe and Rope in New Zealand Alps. London: Longmans, Green and Company, 1891. £225
First edition. 8vo. pp. [xii], 139, 24 (pubs. cat.); frontispiece portrait of the climbing party, 17 plates from photos. by Wheeler and Son, one folding map; minor adhesion marks to flyleaf where bookplate removed, else very good in the original cloth, gilt, vignette of axe and rope to front board, very slightly faded on spine, with minor chips to upper joint, still a very good copy.
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Neate M40; Perret 2804. Mannering (1862-1947) was a prominent New Zealand mountaineer, and with Arthur Harper a founder of the New Zealand Alpine Club. In the 1880s and 1890s he explored and climbed in the Mount Cook area. Mannering’s team successfully climbed Aorangi on the fifth attempt. His book describes the climb, as well as the Hochstetter, Tasman, and Linda Glaciers, and a canoe descent down the Waitaki River, in the Mount Cook Range, through the Pukaki Rapids.
70. Marsh, Herbert. Two Seasons in Switzerland. London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1895.
£50
First edition. 8vo. pp. 261; 12 plates from photos.; minor spotting to fore- edge, else very good in the original cloth, gilt, t.e.g., darkened and slightly discoloured on spine.
Not in Neate or Perret. The author’s record of his visits in 1890 and 1891 to Kandersteg, Champex, the Val de Bagnes, and Saas, with climbs on nearby peaks.
71. Mathews, Charles Edward. The Annals of Mont Blanc. A Monograph … With a Chapter on the Geology of the Mountain, by Professor T.G. Bonney. London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1898.
£350
First edition. 8vo. pp. xxiv, 368; eng. frontis. on india paper after E.T. Compton, wood-eng. vignette to title, 26 b & w ports. and illusts., 1 diagram to text, 5 photogravures from photographs by Vittorio Sella, 1 large folding coloured map at rear; minor spotting, else very good in the original cloth, gilt, t.e.g.
Neate M66; Perret 2863. Mathews (1834-1905) was an original member of the Alpine Club and its President 1878-1880. He made his first ascent of Mont Blanc in 1856 and further ascents in the years following. The present work offers a history of climbing on Mont Blanc, wonderfully illustrated with portraits of some of the famous names in this history, and by Sella’s detailed photographs of the mountain’s principal features.
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