Markham Sherwill's collection of autographs. Reprinted from 'The Alpine Journal,' November 1938.

Octavo: 9 pp. Stitched. In original grey printed wraps. Good. Inscribed by the author to the embryologist Sir Gavin de Beer ('For Mr. G. S. de Beer [sic] With my best wishes C. E. Engel'), author of 'Early Travellers in the Alps' (1930). The article describes the correspondence amassed by Sherwill (a friend of William Upcott) relating to his ascent of Mont Blanc in 1825, quoting from letters of Catharine Hutton, Charles Fellows, Edward Bootle Wilbraham, Martin Barry and Comte Henri de Tilly. 'In 1840 he presented it to the Bibliotheque Royale de France. [...] Markham Sherwill was right in describing his collection 'unique sur le sujet qu'elle traite.' When he presented it to the Bibliotheque Royale, there were no real mountaineering books. [...] [he] was far ahead of his time'.