94. Thioly, F., ed. Notes de Voyage. Les Hautes Alpes de l’Oberland. ?Geneva, ?1861.


£275


First edition, one of 50 copies. 8vo. pp. [i, first leaf/cover], [i, Avis au lecteur], 16; lithographed handwritten text; some browning to first and final leaf, good in the self-wrappers, S.A.C. inkstamp to upper cover, sometime extracted from a bound volume.


Perret 4255. This printed journal records the 18-day travels made in early August, 1846, by the writer, whom Thioly identifies in his preface only as “P. W.” According to the Swiss National Library, the author is Pierre Wolff, who describes his journey from Geneva to Bonneville and from there by foot across glaciers, valleys and peaks to Grindelwald and home. En route he meets several people: M. Martins, i.e. Charles Martins, who in 1844 made an ascent of Mont Blanc with Auguste Bravais and Dr Lepileur; and M. Dolffus, who continued the work of Agassiz and Desor on the Aar glacier. This pamphlet is scarce, with only two copies located on Worldcat (both in Switzerland).


95. Töpffer, Rodolphe. Voyages en Zigzag ou Excursions d’un Pensionnat en Vacances dans les Cantons suisses et sur le Revers italien des Alpes. Paris: J.-J. Dubochet et Compagnie, 1844.


£50


First edition. 4to. pp. viii, 542, [2, contents]; 54 full-page wood-engs., wood-engs. to text; some heavy foxing to text, good in contemporary half roan, gilt, rubbed to extremities. Bookplate of Sir Francis Wyatt Truscott, Lord Mayor of London 1879-80.


Wäber I.66; Perret 4296. Born in Geneva and an accomplished artist, Töppfer (1799-1846) visited the Alps on numerous occasions, often as a teacher in charge of his class. The present work offers a collected account of his visits in 1837-1842, with chapters on the Saint-Gothard, the Via Mala, Chamonix, the Oberland, the Righi, the Lake of Geneva, and a final visit to Venice


96. Töpffer, Rodolphe. Nouveaux Voyages en Zigzag a la Grande Chartreuse, autour du Mont Blanc, dans les Vallées d’Herenz, de Zermatt, au Grimsel, a Gênes et a la Corniche. Paris: Victor Lecou, 1854.


£75


First edition. Large 8vo. pp. [iv], xvii, 454; 48 full-page wood-engs. (one misbound), wood-engs. to text; one leaf of text bound upside-down, else very good in contemporary full roan, gilt, rubbed.


Wäber I.66; Perret 4297; Meckly 199. Further excursions by Töpffer in the Alps, published posthumously, with a memoir of him by Sainte-Beuve.


97. [Tuckett, F. F.] A Pioneer in the High Alps. Alpine Diaries and Letters of F. F. Tuckett 1856-1874. London: Edward Arnold, 1920.


£350


First edition. 8vo. pp. xi, 372, 16 (pubs. ads.); port. frontis., 7 plates inc. two folding; browning to frontis. from tissue-guard, embrowning to endpapers, previous owner’s bookplate, very good in the original cloth, faded on spine.


Neate T69; Perret 4345. Francis Fox Tuckett (1834-1913) was a leading climber of the golden age of Alpinism. After initial climbs around Chamonix, Zermatt, and elsewhere, in the 1860s he pioneed climbing in the Dolomites, for which he won recognition from King Victor Emmanuel II. A few of his climbs were recorded in articles published in the Alpine Journal (reproduced here), but the vast majority of his accounts were unpublished before the appearance of the present work.


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98. Tyndall, John. The Glaciers of the Alps. Being a Narrative of Excursions and Ascents, an Account of the Origin and Phenomena of Glaciers, and an Exposition of the Physical Principles to which they are related. London: John Murray, 1860.


£375


First edition. 8vo. pp. xx, i, 444, 32 (pubs. list); wood-eng. frontis., 5 plates, illusts.; contemporary school inkstamp to front pastedown, adhesion damage to one leaf with slight loss of text (p. 174), else very good in the original cloth, gilt, sunned on spine.


Wäber 87; Neate T75; Nava K/2; Meckly 205; Perret 4354. Tyndall (1820- 1893), the physicist and mountaineer, recorded in this two-part work his ascents in the Alps, and his theory of glaciers. The chapters include details of climbs in the Oberland (Strahleck, Finsteraarhorn), Chamonix (Mont Blanc), and Zermatt (Monte Rosa)


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