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Ascent to the Summit of Mont Blanc in 1834
Author(s):
Barry, Martin
Copyright:
1836, William Blackwood & Sons, Edinburgh
Specifications:
2nd, 8vo, pp.ii, 119, color frontis w/ tissue guard, color lithograph w/ tissue guard, fldg panorama, uncut, black boards
Condition:
inscribed ‘To Robert Barclay Junr. With best regards from the Author London 1st of 6th mo 1836’, boards w/ spine miss, both covers separated, Putnam & AAC/Ladd (blacked out) bookplates, unopened, good
Barry was accompanied by six guides when he made, according to his calculations, the 16th ascent (20th person not counting guides) of Mont Blanc. Meckly credits him with the 17th and Perret with the 21st ascent. Barry’s account of his ascent was republished in 1836 as a series of two lectures which vastly expanded the text of the first edition by threefold. This 2nd edition also included a very nice folding panorama of Mont Blanc as well as color versions of the two lithographs provided in the first edition.
Putnam, Judge Harrington (1851 – 1937) – AAC Vice-President (1908-10), President (1911-13), member Club Alpin Francais. Putnam made early climbs in Japan, Europe and the US. He oversaw the first major controversy handled by the Club - expelling Dr. Frederick Cook from AAC membership. Under his leadership the issues of a Clubhouse and Library arose for the first time.
Ladd, William S., MD. (1887 – 1949) – AAC Councilor (1923-25), Vice-President (1926-28), President (1929-31), Honorary Member (1949) and member of the Alpine Club of Canada, the Alpine Club, and Club Alpin Francais (honorary). He started climbing at an early age with ascents of Mt. Hood (1904, 1905, 1911) and in the Canadian Rockies (1905). He made the first ascent of Mt. Saskatchewan, Canada, (1923, with Conrad Kain), attempted Mt. Fairweather (1926) and was a member of the first ascent team in 1931, and climbed in the Alps (1928). Ladd oversaw the participation and the founding of the Union International des Associations d’Alpinism (UIAA) and gave the gift of the AAC’s first clubhouse, an old fire station located on the upper East side of Manhattan. During his term the first American Alpine Journal was published (1929).
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