Lot 262

Moore, Adolphus Warburton.

Estimate

1,000 - 1,500 GBP

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Description

The Alps in 1864. A Private Journal. London: [Privately Printed], 1867

first edition, limited edition, presentation copy, inscribed by the author, 8vo (222 x 140mm.), 10 maps, original cloth, hinge and gutter of preface reinforced with tape, original cloth, some wear to extremities of binding

Provenance

John Davison, presentation inscription from the author; Charles Thurston Holland, book label

Literature

Neat M137

Catalogue Note

"Moore was short-sighted and by his own admission no great cragsman, but he had great stamina and a ferocious appetite for exploration. Among his party's first ascents were the Gross Viescherhorn (1862), the Écrins (with Whymper in 1864), and in 1865 Piz Roseg, Obergabelhorn, and Mont Blanc by the Brenva glacier, his most celebrated climb. Moore relished it as providing 'the highest, as it is certainly the grandest, pass across the chain of Mont Blanc' [p.360], and his energies were increasingly directed to finding and crossing new passes, among them the Jungfraujoch, the Sesiajoch, the Moming Pass, and many between the Great St Bernard and the Simplon. According to Horace Walker... [his frequent climbing partner], Moore's 'knowledge of the Western and Central Alps was for long unsurpassed, and his ingenuity in planning new and interesting routes inexhaustible. He had an extraordinary gift too for topography'" (ODNB)

rare. only 100 copies were printed.