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WHYMPER, Edward (1840-1911):
Scrambles amongst the Alps in the years 1860-1869. With maps and illustrations. Fourth thousand.
London, John Murray, 1871, gr. in-8°, XX + 432 p., with 23 full-page illustrations, 92 in the text ill. and 5 folded maps (1 in colours), ownership signature on title ,E. Olney’ and an other on first blank (hard to read:) Alanw..., Originaé dark green blindstamped morocco, spine with raised bands, inside covers with gilt dentelles.
Reference : 141733aaf
Second edition, published the same year and by the same publisher, as the original. In 1860 the author was commissionned to make a series of sketches in the Central and Western Alps. He successfully accomplished the ascent of Mount Pelvoux (1861), believed to be, at that time, the highest peak of the Dauphiné Alps. The ascent of the Pointe des Ecrins (1864) was perhaps the most remarkable feat of moumtaineering up to that date. After 1865, Tyndall and Whymper emulated each other in fruitless attempts to reach the summit of the Matterhorn by the south-western side (Italian side). The author, six times unsuccessful, determined then to attempt the eastern face, convinced that its precipitous appearance, when viewed from Zermatt, was an optical illusion. His attempt, the seventh, was crowned with success (July 1865): though the accident which cost the life of four of his mates on the way back, Whymper had opened the usual route taken from then to ascend the Matterhorn. The account of this victory of man on nature occupies the greater part of this book. Cox n° 18.; Perret 4557. Image disp.
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Harteveld Rare Books Ltd.
M. Ben Harteveld
rue des Alpes, 5
1700 Fribourg
Switzerland
41 (0)26 3223808
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Scrambles amongst the Alps in the years 1860-1869. With maps and illustrations. Fourth thousand.
London, John Murray, 1871, gr. in-8°, XX + 432 p., with 23 full-page illustrations, 92 in the text ill. and 5 folded maps (1 in colours),
Second edition, published the same year and by the same publisher, as the original. In 1860 the author was commissionned to make a series of sketches in the Central and Western Alps. He successfully accomplished the ascent of Mount Pelvoux (1861), believed to be, at that time, the highest peak of the Dauphiné Alps. The ascent of the Pointe des Ecrins (1864) was perhaps the most remarkable feat of moumtaineering up to that date. After 1865, Tyndall and Whymper emulated each other in fruitless attempts to reach the summit of the Matterhorn by the south-western side (Italian side). The author, six times unsuccessful, determined then to attempt the eastern face, convinced that its precipitous appearance, when viewed from Zermatt, was an optical illusion. His attempt, the seventh, was crowned with success (July 1865): though the accident which cost the life of four of his mates on the way back, Whymper had opened the usual route taken from then to ascend the Matterhorn. The account of this victory of man on nature occupies the greater part of this book. Cox n° 18.; Perret 4557. Image disp.
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