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Alpine Club. Peaks, Passes, and Glaciers. A Series of Excursions by Members of the Alpine Club [... second series ... third series], 4 volumes, 2nd edition of volume 1, 1st editions of volumes 2-4, Longman, Green, Longman, and Roberts [-Methuen & Co.], 1859-1932, half-titles, 23 folding maps, 8 chromolithographic plates, 12 wood-engraved plates, 16 half-tone plates, numerous wood-engravings in the text, spotting to prelims, bookplates of William Cole 3rd Earl of Enniskillen (1807-1886) to volumes 1-3, volumes 1-3 in later tan half calf, volume 4 in original pictorial cloth gilt, 8vo, together with: Whymper (Edward), Scrambles amongst the Alps in the Years 1860-69, 4th edition, deluxe issue, John Murray 1893, 22 wood-engraved plates, folding map, top edge gilt, others untrimmed, original decorative cloth by Zaehnsdorf, dust jacket (chipped and soiled), 4to, ibid., The Ascent of the Matterhorn, 1st edition thus, John Murray 1880, half-title, 14 plates, folding map, small tide-mark in fore margins, all edges gilt, contemporary prize binding of red full calf calf, 8vo, ibid., Travels amongst the Great Andes of the Equator, 1st edition, John Murray 1892, 20 wood-engraved plates, 4 maps (3 folding), spotted to endpapers and folding maps, top edge gilt, contemporary half morocco, front joint partially cracket, 8vo, and Berlepsch (Hermann-Alexander), The Alps, or Sketches of Life and Nature in the Mountains, translated by Leslie Stephen, 1st edition in English, Longman, Green, Longman, and Roberts, 1861, 16 tinted wood-engraved plates, contemporary prize binding of blue full calf, 8vo (Qty: 8) Neate A32, W65, W65, W66, N/A. Peaks, Passes, and Glaciers is 'one of the most famous titles in mountaineering literature' (Neate). This fourth edition of Whymper's Scrambles amongst the Alps is 'regarded as the definitive edition' (ibid.) and is rare in the dust jacket; it was first published in 1871 and The Ascent of the Matterhorn is in fact an abridgment of the work and third edition overall. A supplementary volume to Travels amongst the Great Andes of the Equator was published in 1871, the year before the appearance of the main volume. Provenance: Library of Colin and Joan Deacon.