The Alps in 1864

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Published by Basil Blackwell Oxford, 1939, 2 volumes, slight staining bottom edges of volume 1, slight differential fading to spines, V.G.   Adolphus Warburton Moore (1841-1887) made his first visit to the Alps in 1862, making the first ascent of the Fiescherhorn with H.B. George and immediately became a key figure in the Golden Age of Alpinism.  He made extensive alpine trips in the years 1860 to 1881 and his first ascents from 1862 to 1865 also include the Barre des Ecrins with Edward Whymper and Horace Walker; the Piz Roseg, the Obergabelhorn and the Pigne d’Arolla, all with Walker; and, most impressively at the time, the Brenva Spur on Mont Blanc, with Walker, George Spencer Mathews and Frank Walker.  Moore also went to the Caucasus with Douglas Freshfield in 1868, making the first ascent by a non-native of Mount Elbrus (lower summit) and of Kazbek.  This book was first published privately in 1867 in a print run of only 100 copies, followed by its first public edition in 1902, then this edition in 1939 as part of the Blackwell’s Mountaineering Library.