BROWN, T. Graham and Sir Gavin de BEER.

The first ascent of Mont Blanc. Published on the occasion of the centenary of the Alpine Club . . . With a foreword by Sir John Hunt, President of the Alpine Club.

London, Oxford University Press, 1957. 8vo (215 x 140 mm), pp. [x], 460, with 15 plates (one doublepage); original red cloth with original grey and red dust-jacket, slightly frayed and soiled; bookplate of the Association of British Members of the Swiss Alpine Club and another which notes ‘Presented to the A.B.M.S.A.C. by Egmond d’Arcis’. First edition. ‘This scholarly examination of the controversy surrounding the first ascent proved Dr. Paccard’s claims beyond doubt and provided a definitive history of the early ascents of Mont Blanc’ (Neate).Neate B189.

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