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‎Narrative of an ascent to the summit of the Mont-Blanc, August 18th, 1822. With an appendix, upon the sensations experienced at great elevations. ‘The profit of the sale to be applied to the benefit of the guides of Chamouny’.‎

‎London, printed for Rivingtons and Cochran, in the Strand, Printed by James Moyes, Greville Street, London, M. DCCC.XXIII., 1823, lg. in-8vo, 2 ll. (title and advertisement) + 56 p., some browning due to paper quality, untrimmed copy, 1 ex-libris ‘G. Costa’ + Cachet ‘Ex-Libris (Mme) Mais’, simple brown paper covers.‎

‎After Meckly this was the 11th ascent, after Perret the 15th ascent. It was at that time the fastest climb ever made on the Mont-Blanc. Clissold did 20 hours from Chamounix up to the Summit. It was the first after the deadly ‘Hamel catastrophe’ in 1820 and the first on the subject to be published in the English language (except for a brief relation published by Beaufoy)’ Perret. Meckly 049; Perret 1021. Image disp.‎