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ALPINE CLUB, [edited by] EDWARD SHIRLEY KENNEDY. Peaks, Passes, and Glaciers, being Excursions by Members of the Alpine Club. Second Series. London: Longman, Green, Longman, and Roberts, 1862. First edition, two volumes. Red leather spine and corners, gilt, marbled paper boards. 8 x 5 1/4 inches (20.5 x 13.5 cm); Vol I: xiv, 445 pp., Vol II: viii, 541 pp., frontispieces, plates, color printed folding maps. Light wear, occasional pale spots; together with: ALPINE CLUB, [edited by] JOHN BALL. Peaks, Passes, and Glaciers. A Series of Excursions by Members of the Alpine Club. London: Longman, Green, Longman, and Roberts, 1859. Third edition of the first series, with an additional preface. Red leather spine and corners, gilt, marbled paper boards. xx, 532 pp., color printed frontispiece, plates, and folding maps. Light wear, occasional pale spots. A finely and uniformly bound set containing accounts of ascensions by many of the pioneering members of the Alpine Club, including Stephen, Hudson, Tuckett, Whymper, Packe and others, dating from the early days of the golden age of mountaineering.