MOUNTAINEERING. - John BALL (editor). Peaks, Passes and Glaciers… a Series of Excursions by Members of the Alpine Club. London: Longman, Green, Roberts, 1859-1932. 4 vols, three series [2nd series in 2 vols]. 1st series is fourth edition, others first editions, 8vo (204 x 130mm.) 23 folding maps, numerous plates (8 tipped-in and chromolithographed) and wood-engraved illustrations. (Browning to margins.) Original cloth, mountaineering vignette in gilt to upper cover of series one and three (rubbing to extremities, inner hinge loosening); second series in 20th century half-calf with old spines laid down, g.e. Note: third series was published by Methuen. Provenance: J.P. Mead (name inscribed on front pastedown of third series). Mead was a mountaineer who also designed the tent (known for its innovative outside flap that allowed snow to weigh it down) that Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay used on the first climbing of Mount Everest (4).