Moore, A.W. edited by E.H. Stevens

THE ALPS IN 1864 a private journal by A.W. Moore edited E.H. Stevens Volume II - Blackwell's Mountaineering Library.

Oxford, Basil Blackwell 1939 Sepia photographs(18) + several maps (5 to endpapers). . Octavo cloth with vignette in dust jacket (lower corners bit bumped/jacket edge torn with losses to head/foot of spine) xi & 247-524pp. This volume two which covers The Col d'Herens, Rimpfischhorn, The Dom, The Biesjoch, The Moming Pass, The Aletschhorn, The Wetterlucke, The Eiger, The Wetterhorn, Mont Blanc from Brenva Glacier, The Winterjoch, The Tiefenmattenjoch, The Grandes Jorasses, Mont Blanc from the Miage Glacier, The Monch. S.Robinson inscription. Not price clipped and almost unused. Slight wear on edges, some tears on leaf, pagination in very good condition.

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Catalogue: General Non-Fiction

Keywords: Mountaineering Alps climbing glaciers

MOORE, A W & KENNEDY, ALEX (ED)

The Alps in 1864 a private Journal

1902. Hardcover. Book, 1st trade ed, Douglas, Edinburgh, 1902. Large 8vo, xxxvi, 444p. Portrait, 10 maps, 21 fine engraved plates & 20 more in the text. Inscr, sl browning to endpapers & spine else near fine very clean copy in original cloth gilt. A great Alpine classic , which includes his account of the first ascent of the famous Brenva ice ridge on Mont Blanc. Neate M137, Perret 3086 'edition la plus intéressante pour l'alpiniste'. Very Good.

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Moore, A.W.; E.H. Stevens, ed.

The Alps in 1864: A Private Journal, Volume I, Volume II

Oxford, England, Basil Blackwell, 1939. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Sturdy, attractive, tightly bound hardcover copies, complete in two volumes and in First Edition states, clean, unmarked interiors, minimal rubbing to extremities. Bound in a light gray cloth, alpine illustrations to upper-right corners. Two different black-and-white illustrations of alps to each volume, front and rear paste-downs and endpapers, quite fine. Editor's Preface to Volume I, Introduction, "In Memoriam, by Horace Walker," then an Author's Preface, and list of illustrations, quite lengthy, and including sharp and distinct black-and-white photographs. Adolphus Warburton Moore (1841–1887) was known as a British civil servant but was beloved as a mountaineer. The Wikipedia entry devoted to him lists half a dozen first ascents (with guides and col-alpinists) just in the 1860s. of Volume I: xxvii, 1-246 pp.; Volume II: xi, 249-524 pp. iiMember, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Very Good

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Keywords: E.H. Stevens A.W. Moore mountaineering the alps alpinists alpine mountaineering

Moore, A.W.

THE ALPS IN 1864. A Private Journal. Edited by E.H. Stevens.

Basil Blackwood, Oxford, 1939. New Ed. 2 vols. [xxviii] + 246pp. + [xii] + (247)-524pp. 8 maps, many ills. from photos. E.p. maps, sm. ownership inscription, original cloth lightly browned to spines, in lightly soiled and chipped heavily repaired d/w. with some parts replaced in facsimile, spines browned.
¶ Blackwell’s Mountaineering Library. Neate M137 ‘Moore made extensive Alpine tours in the years 1860-81 including this one with Whymper and Horace Walker in 1864. The Alpine Club hold his later unpublished diaries, parts of which were incorporated into the 1902 edition, including his account of the first ascent of the famous Brenva ice-ridge on Mont Blanc.

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Catalogue: VOYAGES AND TRAVEL: EUROPE

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