The Alpine Journal, Vol III, 1867

A Record of Mountain Adventure and Scientific Observation, with two maps and colour plates

Author

H B George, editor, and members of The Alpine Club

Publisher

Longmans, Green, Reader & Dyer, London, 1867

Printing Details

First edition. Original cloth binding, with gilt titling to spine and gilt scene of mountaineers to upper board. 22.5 × 14.5cm, 222pp

An illustrated collection of articles, reviews and miscellanea relating to the mountaineering world of the late 1860s. The articles included are:

The Sierra Nevada by John Ormsby;

Ascent of Piz Roseg by Horace Walker;

The Eastern Carpathians by Leslie Stephen;

The Laquin Joch by C. G. Heathcote;

The Bec de Luseney by A. Adams-Reilly;

A Walking Tour through the Himalayas by C. M. Smith;

Ascent of the Aiguille Verte by T. S. Kennedy;

An Expedition to Hammerfest by R. St. John Tyrwhitt;

The Ebnefluh Joch, Schmadri Joch, and Agassiz Joch by J. J. Hornby;

Suggestions as to the best mode of carrying a Pack by H. B. George;

The Col de Pierre Joseph by C. G. Heathcote;

Excursions in the Graians by R. C. Nichols;

The Tibetan route from Simla to Srinagar by J. F. Cheetham;

The Tödi and Adula Gebirge by A. W. Moore.

The book is illustrated with two fold out maps: sketch map of the Sierra Nevada and a map of Southern Graians, a frontispiece of The Sierra Nevada from the Torre de la Vela in the Alhambra, three colour plates: The Bee de Luseney, from above Bionaz; Raftesund Loffoden; and Lama Yuru. There is a further etching of "Man and Monster".

Condition

Whilst the contents remains in very good condition for age, and in strong readable condition, the covers are heavily mottled. The front hinge is starting but remaining secure. The cloth a little crushed at the head of the spine.

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