Lot no. 161
Moore (Adolphus Warburton). The Alps in 1864. Edinburgh, David Douglas, 1902. Large in-8°, publisher's green cloth binding, gilt title to spine, gilt head, untrimmed. Second enlarged edition, the first to be published. Illustrated with a frontispiece portrait, 20 photographic plates out of the text, 10 maps in the text and 20 photographs in the text. Accounts of the ascents of one of the most famous English mountaineers of the Victorian era. See in particular the account of the first ascent of the Brenva spur on Mont Blanc, an authentic feat for the time. This truly fundamental work on the golden age of mountaineering has never been translated into French. A good copy. Perret, 3086
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