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8vo., First Edition thus, with portrait frontispiece (original tissue guard present), 21 fine photographic plates in gravure (all original tissue guards present), 20 smaller photographs as chapter heads and 10 maps in the text, endpapers mildly browned; original pale green buckram, gilt back, gilt top, uncut, backstrip mildly sunned (but all gilt wholly legible), joints very lightly rubbed, short split in paper of upper hinge (but binding entirely sound), a well-preserved, bright, cleam, crisp copy. With the engraved bookplate of Herbert Cooke on front paste-down. One of the greatest Alpine memoirs. Moore climbed with Whymper and Horace Walker, and was a member of the party which made the first ascent of Mont Blanc via the Brenva ice-ridge. Originally published privately in 1867 in an edition of 100 copies. The plates are remarkable for their extensive and detailed captions. Moore's later diaries, currently unpublished, are held by the Alpine Club. Neate *535; Perret 3086 'edition la plus interessante pour l'alpiniste'.