The Alps in 1864, A Private Journal
Edinburgh: David Douglas, 1902.
Hardcover. Very good. First trade edition of this work first published in 1867 in an edition of 100 copies for private circulation. pp xxxv, 444, with 10 maps and 22 photographic plates, in original publisher's cloth with gilt spine lettering, top edge gilt. Moderate rubbing to extremities, light foxing to endpapers; very good. 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 The Alpine Club holds his later unpublished diaries, parts of which were incorporated into the 1902 edition, including his account of the first ascent of the famous Brenva ice ridge on Mont Blanc."
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