Norway and its Glaciers visited in 1851; Followed by Journals of Excursions in the High Alps of Dauphiné, Berne and Savoy. Forbes, James D. Alps,Mountaineering,Norway

First edition. 8vo. pp. xxiv, 349; 10 coloured lithos. inc. frontis., 1 woodcut plate, 19 woodcut illusts. to text, 4 maps and plans (1 large folding); numerous inkstamps of The Rucksack Club throughout, including to back of each plate and to prelims., their bookplate to front pastedown, else very good in the original cloth, gilt, neatly restored to extremities. Provenance: From the library of Hermann Woolley, president of the Alpine Club 1911-13, with his bookplate. Forbes's account of his pioneering expedition to Norway contains some of the earliest lithographs of its glaciers and snow fields. The book also contains very nearly the sum of what was then known, in geological terms, about the country. The work is in two halves, dealing first with Norway and then, by way of comparison, with the Alps. In Norway and its Glaciers, Forbes also published for the first time an account of his ascent of the Jungfrau with Agassiz (the first British ascent). The chapters on the Alps later appeared in the same author's Travels through the Alps. Norway and its Glaciers was rightly regarded as a classic by Cecil Slingsby, the 'father' of Norwegian mountaineering. This copy once belonged to Hermann Woolley (1846-1920), who began climbing in the Alps, and went on to make several first ascents in the Caucasus with Douglas Freshfield, in Canada with Norman Collie, and in Norway with Slingsby.