74. Moore, Adolphus Warburton. The Alps in 1864. A Private Journal. Ed. Alex. B. W. Kennedy. Edinburgh: David Douglas, 1902.


£375


First trade edition. Large 8vo. pp. xxxv, 444; port. frontis., 21 plates, illusts. to text, 10 maps to text; browning to endpapers, else near-fine in the original cloth, gilt, t.e.g.


Neate M137; Perret 3086; cf. Cox 16. Moore (1841-1887) made extensive Alpine tours in the years 1860-81, including this one with Whymper and Horace Walker in 1864. His work was first issued privately in 1867. This new edition, edited by A. B. W. Kennedy of the Alpine Club, includes illustrations not present in the 1867 edition. It also draws on Moore’s previously unpublished diaries, and offers his account of the first ascent of the Brenva ice-ridge on Mont Blanc.


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75. Mumm, A. L. Five Months in the Himalaya. A Record of Mountain Travel in Garhwal and Kashmir. London: Edward Arnold, 1909.


£975


Crown 8vo. pp. xvi, 263; addendum slip to contents; 29 plates from photographs by the author and T.G. Longstaff including 4 folding panoramas, 48 illustrations from photographs mounted to text, 2 folding maps; embrowning to endpapers, rear hinge partly cracked, else a very good, clean copy in the original cloth, gilt, t.e.g., bumped to heel of spine with contents partially affected.


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72. McCormick, Arthur David. An Artist in the Himalayas. London: T. Fisher Unwin. 1895.


£275


First edition. 8vo. pp. xii, 306; frontis., illusts. to text, one folding map of Kashmir; occasional spotting, foxing to tissue-guard of frontis., good in the original brown pictorial cloth, gilt, darkened on spine and lettering rather indistinct.


Neate M03; Yakushi M263; Perret 2897. McCormick (1860-1943) joined Martin Conway’s 1892 Karakoram expedition as artist. His is one of four accounts of the expedition (others were written by the leader Conway - see item 23 - the guide Zurbriggen - see item 110 - and Oscar Eckenstein). McCormick also illustrated Conway’s own account of the expedition, as well as his books on the Alps.


73. Meyer, Johann Rudolf & Hieronymus Meyer. Reise auf den Jungfrau-Gletscher und ersteigung seines Gipfels. N.p. [?Aarau], n.d. [?1812].


£250


First separate edition. 8vo. pp. 31; some soiling, circular indent to text throughout, good in recent buckram with leather lettering piece.


Perret 2997. This offprint, from the Aarau-printed Miszellen für die neueste Weltkunde, records the first ascent of the Jungfrau by the Meyer brothers, made in August 1811.


Neate M179; Yakushi (3rd ed.) M565; Perret 3147. Arnold Louis Mumm (1859-1927) travelled with Charles Bruce and Tom Longstaff to Garhwal and the ranges between Kashmir and Khagan, in a series of climbs and explorations that culminated in Longstaff’s ascent of Trisul (7120m). As Mumm writes, “A good deal of hitherto untrodden ground was traversed in both regions, and a large extent of country, of great interest to mountaineers, was visited, which has never been adequately described from their point of view, and never before come under the fire of a camera” (Preface). Trisul was at that time the highest peak ever to be climbed, a summit record not beaten until the ascent of Kamet in 1931. (The record was in fact beaten by Alexander Kellas’ ascent of Pauhunri in 1911, but at the time this peak was estimated at a height of 7065m.)


76. Mummery, A. F. My Climbs in the Alps and Caucasus. London: T. Fisher Unwin; New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1895.


£475


First edition. Tall 8vo. pp. xii, 360; lithographed frontispiece, 8 photogravure plates, 11 full-page wood-engs., 1 chromolithgraphed plate, illusts. to text; some heavy foxing throughout, previous owner’s inscriptions to front blank, else good in the original buckram, leather lettering pieces to spine, t.e.g., slightly rubbed.


Wäber II.25; Cox 21; Neate M181; Perret 3149. Mummery pioneered the ridges and difficult pinnacles of the Alps. His list of climbs is remarkable, including the first ascents of the Grepon, the Zmutt Ridge of the Matterhorn, and the Charmoz, with Alexander Burgener. He also pioneered guideless climbing, making the first guideless ascent of Brenva Ridge on Mont Blanc. Two chapters relate Mummery’s climbing experiences in the Caucasus. He died in 1895 while reconnoitring Nanga Parbat in the Himalaya.


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