Dominic Winter

Mountaineering Books & Periodicals The Geoff Milburn Collection THURSDAY 11 APRIL 2013

Dominic Winter SPECIALIST AUCTIONEERS & VALUERS

Watercolours of Italy and the Alps by Mary Frances Wicksteed: Lot 178 Front Cover: Lot 117

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MOUNTAINEERING BOOKS & PERIODICALS THE GEOFF MILBURN COLLECTION AND OTHER PROPERTIES

Thursday 11 April 2013 Lots 1- 444 commencing at 11am

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THE GEOFF MILBURN MOUNTAINEERING LIBRARY

For about fifty years Geoff Milburn, a now-retired Glossop schoolteacher, has frequented second-hand bookshops and antiquarian book fairs and has pored over book dealers’ lists in order to build up one of the largest whole-world mountaineering book collections in private hands. The collection contains many unique items not found in either Neate’s Bibliography or in the Alpine Club Library and there are many rare limited editions and author-signed presentation copies.

Items signed by Edward Whymper and Andrew Irvine will be of particular interest to collectors.

The collection is generally in good-to-excellent condition with most of the twentieth-century dust-jacketed volumes protected in polypropylene covers. Most of the collection is English language but there are also some choice items in German, Italian and French.

Amongst the ephemera up for sale will be found autographed letters, maps, expedition reports, diaries, photographs, scrapbooks and approximately 10,000 early European and Alpine postcards. There are also many framed pictures including watercolour drawings, engravings, chromolithographs, pen and ink crag drawings, etc. One highlight is the extensive collection of original watercolours of British and Alpine scenery by Mary Wicksteed (1871-1887). Excluded from the sale is Geoff’s large collection of rare British rock-climbing guidebooks, but a few rare British guidebooks are included alongside other European ones.

Geoff began rock-climbing in 1959 when based in Richmond, North Yorkshire and, later in the Peak District, was a leading rock-climber involved in major new routes particularly in North Wales from the 1970s. He wrote the 1978 Llanberis Pass guidebook and later edited many guidebooks for both the British Mountaineering Council (1978-1999) and the prestigious Climbers’ Club (1984-1991). He is an Honorary Member of both organizations and in 1986 was honoured to receive the Torch Trophy for services to British sport.

His publishing firm Pic produced Welsh Rock (1986) and Cumbrian Rock (1988) as well as Bob Allen’s On High Lakeland Fells (1987). Helyg (1985) and The First 50 Years (1997) for the BMC are also two of Geoff’s many projects. More recently he published The Dog Men of Gilling West, a unique history of his famous forebears in the dog world.

He has mountaineered around the world, loves ancient ruins, has a two-acre nature reserve and is an ardent skier.

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CONTENTS Europe

1-96

Mont Blanc

97-121

Australasia

122-137

Skiing

138-161

Pictures & Prints

162-180

Ephemera

181-206

Great Britain

207-252

Guide Books

253-271

Periodicals

272-293

Africa

294-300

The Americas

301-330

Polar Exploration

331-337

Asia

338-408

Quantity

409-418

Other Properties

419-444

EUROPE To commence at 11.00 am 1 Cunningham (C.D. & Abney, Captain W. de W.). A Facsimile of Christian Almer’s Fuhrerbuch 1856-1894, Reproduced under the Superintendence of C.D. Cunningham and Capt. W. De W. Abney, C.B., D.C.L., F.R.S. (Late) R.E., Sampson Low, 1896, photogravure portrait frontispiece, two b & w illusts, a.e.g., armorial bookplate, orig. cloth gilt, slightly rubbed to extrems, 8vo Exlibris Frederick Gardiner with his bookplate. Neate C157. Number 60 of 200 copies. Christian Almer (1826-1898) was a Swiss mountain guide and famously made the first ascent of many Alpine peaks, including the Eiger.

Here is reproduced his official guide certificate along with the many handwritten recommendations he received from the climbers who he accompanied. This publication caused a furore in Alpine circles and after only 68 copies were sold, the plates were destroyed.

(1) £1000-1500

2 Ball (John, ed.). Peaks, Passes, and Glaciers. A Series of Excursions by Members of the Alpine Club, 1st-3rd series (complete), 1859-1932, chromo. & b & w plates, folding maps, first series front hinge tender, second series vol. 2 half title partly excised, a few spots, original cloth, a little rubbed, third series d.j. with tears and losses, together with 2nd & 3rd eds. of the first series and an extract from Chamber’s Journal of Popular Literature, Science and Arts, vol. XII, 1860, containing an article concerning the foundation of the Alpine Club and a review of the first volume of ‘Peaks & Passes’ Neate A32. “One of the most famous titles in mountaineering literature, this series of pieces by members of the Alpine Club led directly to the commencement of the Alpine Journal in 1863.”

(7) £300-400

Lot 1

Lot 2 Left: Lot 1

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4 Bellows (William). Zermatt and The Matterhorn, Privately Printed for the Entertainment of Friends, 1925, author’s presentation copy, inscribed on flyleaf ‘With kindest remembrances from ‘W.B.’ Gloucester 3.10.25’, 19 p., four b & w illusts. from photos, some scattered spotting, orig. stiff wrappers retained in recent green cloth, together with Coolidge (W.A.B.), Walks and Excursions in the Valley of Grindelwald, 2nd ed., pub. Grindelwald, 1935, 64 p., b & w illusts. to text, folding map and single ad leaf at rear, orig. printed wrappers retained in recent green cloth, both slim 8vo, plus Wood (Edith Elmer), An Oberland Chalet, 1st ed., [1911], twelve b & w illusts. from photos, some minor scattered spotting, orig. blind-stamped cloth gilt in bright condition, 8vo, and Lyall (Alan), The First Descent of the Matterhorn. A Bibliographical Guide to the 1865 Accident & its Aftermath, 1st ed., 1997, half-tone plts. and illusts. to text, orig. cloth in d.j., royal 8vo, and others related

3 Beattie (William). Switzerland Illustrated in a Series of Views Taken Expressly for thie Work by W.H. Bartlett, 2 vols., 1836, additional vign. title to each, 104 (of 106) steel-engs. (lacks eng. of Tell’s Chapel, Lake Uri at p. 151 in vol. 1 and eng. of The Pass of the Ghemmi, with Monte Rosa and the Cervin, at p. 128 in vol. 2), folding eng. map at rear of vol. 2, some scattered spotting, contemp. half morocco, gilt-dec. spine with contrasting labels, rubbed, 4to, together with bRoscoe (Thomas), The Tourist in Switzerland and Italy, 1830, twenty-five steel-eng. views after drawings by Samuel Prout, correct as list, a.e.g., orig. olive green morocco gilt, rubbed, chipped at foot of spine, 8vo (3)

£100-150

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£100-150

5 Bonatti (Walter). On the Heights, Translated from the Italian by Lovett F. Edwards, 1st ed., 1964, photographic illustrations, original cloth, d.j., a trifle rubbed, 8vo, together with Conquistadors of the Useless, by Lionel Terray, Translated by Geoffrey Sutton, 1st ed., 1963, b & w illustrations, original cloth, d.j., plus Hermann Buhl’s Nanga Parbat Pilgrimage, Translated by Hugh Merrick, 1956 Neate B126, T19 & B210. Bonatti was a leading Italian climber whose solo ascent of the South-West Pillar of the Dru in 1955 was one of the most remarkable feats of Alpine mountaineering. His climbs include Himalaya and Patagonia. He was one of the three survivors of the disasters on the Central Pillar of Frêney in 1961.

(3) £100-150

6 Boner (Charles). Guide for Travellers in the Plain and on the Mountain, 2nd ed., pub. Hardwicke and Bogue, 1876, half-title, b & w wood-eng. illusts., pubs. ad leaf at rear, orig. green cloth gilt, small 8vo, together with Ball (John), A Guide to the Western Alps/Eastern Alps, 2 vols., 1st ed., 1863/new ed., 1869 respec., folding col. maps etc., one or two short closed tears, orig. cloth gilt, modern reback, rubbed to edges, 8vo, plus Caviezel (M.), Tourist’s Guide to the Upper Engadine, Translated from the German... by A.M.H., pub.

Edward Stanford, 1877, folding col. map frontis., ads at rear, orig. green cloth gilt, rubbed, and other similar guidebooks to Switzerland, including Switzerland Through the Stereoscope, pub. Underwood and Underwood, n.d., c. 1900, Murray’s Hand-Book for Travellers in Switzerland, 5th ed., 1852, with folding wood-eng. panorama of Mont Blanc, Cook’s Tourist’s Handbook for Switzerland, 1908, etc., all orig. cloth, rubbed, 8vo (15)

£150-200

7 Bonney (T.G.). Outline Sketches in the High Alps of Dauphine, 1st ed., 1865, frontispiece and 11 sketch maps, a few spots, endpapers renewed, original blue cloth, rebacked with original spine relaid, a little rubbed and faded, 4to, together with The Alpine Regions of Switzerland and the Neighbouring Countries; A Pedestrian’s Notes on their Physical Features, Scenery, and Natural History, 1st ed., Cambridge, 1868, illustrations by Edward Whymper, pubs. list at end, occasional spotting, bookplate, original cloth, rubbed at spine ends, 8vo, with two others by Bonney:: The Building of the Alps, 2nd impression, 1913 and The Story of our Planet, 1902 reprint

Lot 4

Neate B139; B136.

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£150-200

8 Bourdillon (Francis William). Ode in Defence of the Matterhorn Against the Proposed Railway to its Summit, 1st ed., [1910?], 8 pp., col. frontis. by J. Hardwicke Lewis, fifteen six-line verses, five verses with pen and pencil manuscript alternative words and additions neatly written in, presumably in the author’s holograph, a few minor spots, orig. printed wrappers, sewn as issued, slim 4to Various engineering proposals to reach the summits of Matterhorn, Mont Blanc, etc. were frequent in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century.

Popular Mechanics magazine was even so bold as to say in its April 1907 issue that ‘within four years a cog railway will land passengers at the very summit [of the Matterhorn], 14,780 ft. above the sea. There will be one almost perpendicular tunnel 7,700 ft. long, or rather high, for the grade will be 85 per cent. At the top a hotel will be excavated in the rock, with rooms looking out upon the magnificent panorama. One room will be supplied with oxygen for treatment of tourists who suffer from the altitude. The ascent will take 90 minutes; fare for round trip 10 dollars’. This and all other proposed railway projects since have failed to get off the ground.

(1) £100-150

9 Brockedon (William). Journals of Excursions in the Alps: The Pennine, Graian, Cottian, Rhetian, Lepontian, and Bernese, 1st ed., 1833, half-title present, folding eng. map, 8 pp. publisher’s ads at rear, orig. cloth with paper label to spine, rubbed and somewhat scuffed, 8vo, (Neate B171), together with Latrobe (Charles Joseph), The Alpenstock; Or, Sketches of Swiss Scenery and Manners, MDCCCXXV-MDCCCXXVI, 1st ed., 1829, half-title, vign. title and three wood-eng. plts., spotted and somewhat browned (as often), later cloth gilt, minor wear to spine, plus The Pedestrian: A Summer’s Ramble in the Tyrol, and Some of the Adjacent Provinces, MDCCCXXX, by Charles Joseph Latrobe, 1st ed., 1832, map frontis., some spotting, contemp. half calf gilt, rubbed and minor wear to extremities, 8vo, and Weld (Charles Richard), Auvergne, Piedmont, and Savoy: A Summer Ramble, 1st ed., 1850, ex-lib. ink stamp to verso of title, 8 pp. publisher’s ads at rear, orig. blind-stamped cloth gilt, recased, corners bumped (new endpapers), and three others similar (7)

Lot 10

£100-150

10 [Browne, James D. Howe]. Stories from Switzerland and the Tyrol, 1st ed., T. Nelson & Sons, 1852, engraved title and five fullpage plates, 16 pp. publisher’s catalogue to rear, orig. blindstamped cloth gilt, minor fraying to extreme head of spine, 8vo Contains a chapter entitled “Ascent of Mont Blanc” which includes a history of the mountain and a 9 pp. account of the most recent ascent (the 42nd) at the time of publication, made by James D. Howe Browne with Alfred Goodall in July 1852. With small ownership stamp to verso of title of of Gavin Rylands de Beer (1899-1972), zoologist and historian.

(1) £70-100

11 Buxton (Edward North). Short Stalks: Or Hunting Camps, North, South, East, and West, 1st ed., 1892, wood-engs. and b & w illusts., near-contemp. dark green half morocco by Mudie, gilt-dec. spine with raised bands and contrasting title label, a little faded, 8vo Includes chapters on Chamonis hunting, the Rocky Mountains, the Pyrenean Ibex and the final chapter is entitled ‘Peaks and Passes’, devoted to reminiscences of alpine climbing during the decade following the formation of the Alpine Club (1860s).

(1) £70-100

Lot 11

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12 Catlow (Agnes and Maria E.). Sketching Rambles: Or, Nature in the Alps and Apennines, 2 vols., 1st ed., [1861], half-titles present, hand-col. litho. frontis. to each, eighteen tinted litho. plts., single ad leaf at rear of vol. 1, orig. blind-stamped and gilt-dec. cloth, a little rubbed, 8vo (2)

£150-200

13 Clark (Ronald). The Splendid Hills: The Life and Photographs of Vittorio Sella 1859-1943, 1st ed., 1948, numerous b & w photo. plates, orig. cloth in chipped dust-wrapper, 4to, together with The Early Alpine Guides, 1st ed., 1949, b & w illusts, orig. cloth in chipped dust-wrapper, 8vo, and The Victorian Mountaineers, 1st ed., 1953, b & w plates, orig. cloth in VG dust-wrapper, 8vo, plus An Eccentric in the Alps: The Story of the Rev. W.A.B. Coolidge the Great Victorian Mountaineer, 1st ed., 1959, b & w plates, orig. cloth in dust-wrapper, 8vo, plus others by Ronald W. Clark Neate C65; C57; C67; C58.

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£70-100

14 [Clowes, G.]. Forty-Six Days in Switzerland and the North of Italy,

by G.C., Junr., privately printed, 1856, half-title present (upper corner excised), folding map, wood-eng. frontis. and three folding panoramas (correct as list), a.e.g., orig. blind-stamped cloth gilt, soiled and some wear, slim 8vo Rare. Not in Neate.

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Lot 12

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£200-300

15 [Cole, Mrs Henry Warwick]. A Lady’s Tour round Monte Rosa; with Visits to the Italian Valleys of Anzasca, Mastalone, Camasco, Sesia, Lys, Challant, Aosta, and Cogne. In a Series of Excursions in the Years 1850-56-58, 1st ed., 1859, half title, hand coloured “sub rosa” device to title, four chromo. plates after Geoge Barnard, folding litho. map, wood engraved illusts to text, 24 pp. publisher’s catalogue to rear, orig. blindstamped pink cloth gilt, rubbed and marked with a little fraying to extrems, 8vo Neate C88. Written by the wife and travelling companion of Alpine Club member Henry Warwick Cole. This is the personal copy of geologist Rev. Samuel William King (1821-1868) who, also along with his wife, is referred to occasionally in the text. King has added many marginal notes and underlingings in pencil throughout the text, usually mildly critical of some of Mrs Cole’s more colourful observations. King was an enthusiastic climber who travelled frequently in continental Europe usually with his wife, recording an 1855 expedition in his only book ‘The Italian Valleys of the Pennine Alps’ (1858).

(1) £400-600

16 Conway (Sir William Martin). The Alps from End to End...with 100 Full-Page Illustrations by A.D. M’Cormick, 1st ed., Westminster, 1895, numerous b & w plates, orig. two-tone cloth gilt, rubbed and marked, 8vo, together with Mountain Memories: A Pilgrimage of Romance, 1st ed., 1920, b & w photo. plates, booklate of Thomas Clement Ormiston-Chant, orig. cloth gilt, rubbed to extrems, and a copy of the 1st US edition of the same work, both 8vo, plus Evans (John), The Conways: A History of Three Generations, 1st ed., 1966, orig. cloth in slightly frayed dust-wrapper, 8vo, plus others by Conway including “Episodes in a Varied Life” (1932) and two copies of “The Route des Alpes” in orig. printed paper wrappers eate C101, C106, E29 & C104.

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17 Conway (W. Martin and McCormick, A.D.). The Alps, pub. A. & C. Black, 1904, seventy col. plts. after watercolour drawings by McCormick, t.e.g., remainder rough-trimmed, orig. dec. cloth, rubbed and some wear to extremities, 4to (limited Edition De Luxe 33/300, signed by the publishers), together with Rook (Clarence and Jardine, Effie), Switzerland, the Country and its People, pub. Chatto & Windus, 1907, fifty-six mounted col. plts. after watercolour drawings by Effie Jardine, with captioned tissue guards, twenty-four half-tone plts., some minor scattered spotting, t.e.g., remainder untrimmed, orig. giltdec. vellum, rubbed and badly soiled, 4to (limited edition 21/112), plus Canziani (Estella and Rohde, Eleanour), Piedmont, 1913, fifty col. plts. mounted on grey paper, with captioned tissue guards (frontis. a little creased), some minor scattered spotting, mainly to text, t.e.g., remainder rough-trimmed, orig. gilt-dec. cloth, worn on spine, 4to

£100-150

First item Neate C100.

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£100-150

18 Coolidge (William Augustus Brevoort). A collection of twentyone Alpine pamphlets by Coolidge, including eight printed in French, seven in Italian, three in English and three in German, all but one pamphlet inscribed by the author (the other containing the author’s compliments slip), all retaining original printed wrappers (where called-for) in near-contemp. quarter cloth gilt, with typed contents list bound-in, comprising (in bound order): A List of the Writings (not being Reviews of Books) dating from 1868 to 1912 and Relating to the Alps or Switzerland, privately printed, Grindelwald, 1912, Die Deutschredenden Gemeinden im Grauen oder Oberen Bunde (Rhatien) der Schweiz), Vienna, 1893, Some Early Visits to Zermatt and Saas, 1907, L’Alpe d’Engstligen dans l’Histoire, Berne, 1910, Die Petronella-Kapelle in Grindelwald, pub. Grindelwald, 1911, Les Grands Sommets des Alpes de la Tarentaise dans l’Histoire, Lyon, 1911, Le “Mont Alban”, Lyon, 1911, Le Chaine du Mont Blanc avant 1800, Lyon, 1911, Il Colle Clapier Nella Storia, Turin, 1911, Il Colle di San Teodulo Nella Storia, Turin, 1911, Les Origines du Grand Combin et du Mont Collon et La Legende de la “Crete a Collon”, Aoste, 1913, Le “Col Major” et le Col du Geant, Lyon, 1913, Entre Valloire et Brianconnais, Grenoble, 1914, Entre le col de Collon et le col de Valcournera, Aoste, 1914, Collo di Fenetre e di Crete Seche, Turin, 1914, Le Origini Storiche di Arolla, Turin, 1914, Il Col de Seilon Nella Storia, Turin, 1915, Il Col de Collon Nella Storia, Turin, 1915, La Leggenda Della “Crete a Collon”,Turin, 1915, Die Alteste Schutzhutte im Berner Oberland ein Beitrag zur Geschichte der Bernischen Touristik, Berne, 1915, The History of the Col de Tenda. Reprinted from the English ‘Historical Review’, 1916, plus one other pamphlet: With the Canadian Alpine Club by Harold B. Dixon, 1910 (1)

£400-600

20 Coolidge (William Augustus Brevoort). Swiss Travel and Swiss Guide-Books, 1st ed., 1889, 16 pp. publisher’s catalogue to rear, orig. brown cloth gilt, minor edge fraying, 8vo Neate C129. Contains a separate section on the history of Zermatt.

(1) £100-150

21 Cremer (Robert Wyndham). Mount Everest and Other Poems, Printed for Private Circulation, 1923, orig. cloth-backed boards with printed paper spine label, rubbed and soiled, small 8vo, together with Sneyd-Kynnersley (Edmund Mackenzie), A Snail’s Wooing, Story of an Alpine Courtship, 1st ed., 1910, 8 pp. publisher’s ads at rear, some spotting and soiling, inner hinges cracked, orig. cloth gilt, heavily rubbed and some wear to extremities, 8vo, plus Blakeney (Edward Henry), Alpine Poems, Printed at the Author’s Private Press, Winchester, 1929, orig. printed wrappers, small 4to, (limited ed., 1/60), plus Gower (Janet Leveson), Snow in Austria, Centaur Press, 1935, author’s one-page autograph letter signed tipped on to front pastedown, orig. cloth gilt, rubbed, (one of 200 copies), plus four others

19 Coolidge (William Augustus Brevoort). The Alpine Career (1868-1914) of Frederick Gardiner, printed for private circulation, [Woolton: Mrs Gardiner], 1920, but later facsimile reprint, c.1970s?, single portrait plate, orig. printed paper wrappers, 8vo Neate C125: “Frederick Gardiner (1850-1919) was a Liverpool shipowner. He was a keen advocate of climbing in Britain and of guideless Alpine climbing”.

Only 50 copies of the original edition were printed. An excellent copy.

(1) £70-100

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£100-150

Lot 22

22 Crowley (Aleister). The Spirit of Solitude. An Autohagiography Subsequently Re-Antichristened. The Confessions of Aleister Crowley, 2 vols., Mandrake Press, 1929, photogravure port. frontis. to each, b & w illusts. from photos, t.e.g., orig. off-white cloth, spines lettered and blocked in gilt, upper covers lettered and blocked in black with a caricature portrait of ‘The Beast’, a little rubbed and finger-soiled, royal 8vo (Neate C153), together with Symonds (John), The Great Beast. The Life of Aleister Crowley, 2nd imp.., 1951, b & w illusts. from photos, orig. cloth in torn d.j., 8vo (Neate S208), and three others related

23 Cunningham (C.D. & Abney, Captain W. de W.). The Pioneers of the Alps, 1st ed., 1887, half-title, photogravure frontis. and twenty-two photogravure ports. with captioned tissue guards, b & w illusts. to text (including one wood-eng. plt. of ice axes), t.e.g., remainder rough-trimmed, orig. cloth gilt, rubbed and minor wear to extremities, 4to Neate C156. ‘Biographical sketches of the great early Alpine guides, illustrated with Abney’s superb photographic portraits. Cunningham was an early advocate of Scottish winter climbing. Abney contributed to the development of photographic chemistry, about which he wrote several books’.

(1) £200-300

Self-styled ‘The Great Beast’, Crowley dabbled in black magic, was possibly the most extraordinary figure in the history of mountaineering. He climbed the Alps and led expeditions to K2 (1902) and Kanchenjunga (1905).

(6) £150-200

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24 Dent (C.T.). Mountaineering...with Contributions by W.M. Conway, D.W. Freshfield, C.E. Mathews, C. Pilkington, Sir F. Pollock, H.G. Willink, and an Introduction by Mr Justice Wills, 1892, photogravure frontis., twelve full-page b & w plates, numerous illusts to text, t.e.g. remainder rough-trimmed, orig. navy half roan gilt, rubbed and marked to spine, 4to

29 Edwards (Amelia B.). Untrodden Peaks and Unfrequented Valleys: A Midsummer Ramble in the Dolomites, 1st ed., 1873, b & w wood-eng. illusts., folding map, orig. green cloth gilt, rubbed and some fraying, large 8vo, together with Paterfamilias’s Diary of Everybody’s Tour: Belgium and the Rhine, Munich, Switzerland, Milan, Geneva and Paris, pub. Thomas Hatchard, 1856, tinted litho. frontis., orig. blind-stamped blue cloth gilt, rubbed and marked, small 8vo, plus Alpine Climbing. Narratives of Recent Ascents of Mont Blanc, the Matterhorn, the Jungfrau, and Other Lofty Summits of the Alps, pub. T. Nelson and Sons, 1882, numerous b & w woodeng. illusts., orig. pict. cloth gilt, very sl. rubbed (generally in bright condition), small 8vo, and Knight (Francis A.), The Rambles of a Dominie, 1891, b & w photogravure frontis., b & w illusts. to text, orig. pict. green cloth gilt, rubbed, 8vo, plus other mostly Victorian publications relating to the Alps, including Miss R.H. Busk, The Valleys of Tirol, 1874, Mrs Harriet Beecher Stow, Sunny Memories of Foreign Lands, 1854, Frederic Zurcher, Mountain Adventures in the Various Countries of the World, 1869, Henry Frith, Ascents and Adventures, 1884, Glimpses of the Wonderful, Third Series, 1847, etc., all orig. cloth, rubbed, mostly 8vo

Neate D20. Limited large paper edition, number 13 of 250 copies.

(1) £100-150

25 Dent (Clinton). Above the Snow Line: Mountaineering Sketches between 1870 and 1880, 1st ed., 1885, half title, three wood engraved plates including frontis., orig. cloth gilt, rubbed with a little fraying to head and foot of spine, 8vo Neate D19: “The author was a leading figure in mountaineering in the late nineteenth century. The book describes, among other things, his first ascent of the Aiguille du Dry, at his 19th attempt”.

(1) £70-100

26 Drummond (D.T.K.). Scenes and Impressions in Switzerland and the North of Italy... 1st ed., Edinburgh, 1853, tinted lithographed frontis., title vignette and two plates, ad. leaf at end, a few spots, previous owner inscriptions, original cloth, chips and tears to spine, 8vo, together with Rambles in Germany, France, Italy and Russia, by the Hon. Ferdinand St. John, c. 1853, four hand-coloured lithographed plates, pubs. ads. at end, light spotting, previous owner signature, a.e.g., original blue cloth gilt, edges rubbed, 8vo, with five others including Mountains and Lakes of Switzerland and Italy, 1871 and Swiss Pictures Drawn with Pen and Pencil, new ed., 1891 (7)

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30 Ferguson (Robert). Swiss Men and Swiss Mountains, 1st ed., 1862, half calf over marbled boards with gilt dec. spine, rubbed with a little peeling, 8vo, together with Chambers (William), A Tour in Switzerland in 1841, 1st ed., Edinburgh, 1842, without covers, 8vo, and Cooper (J. Fenimore), Excursions in Switzerland, 1st ed., Paris, 1836, light foxing, contemp. half calf, 8vo, plus Walter (Rev. Wheeler), Letters from the Continent, 1st ed., 1828, contemp. half calf, 8vo, and Malleson (Colonel G.B.), Captain Musafir’s Rambles in Alpine Lands, 1st ed., 1884, b & w illusts, inner hinges starting to crack, orig. cloth gilt, 4to, plus others related

£100-150

27 Ebel (J.G.). The Traveller’s Guide Through Switzerland, new ed., Arranged and Improved by Daniel Wall, Printed for Samuel Leigh, 1820, b & w eng. frontis., orig. morocco gilt, rubbed and some minor wear, 12mo, together with Inglis (H.D.), Switzerland, The South of France, and the Pyrenees, in MDCCCXXX, 2 vols. bound in 1, 1835, folding map, additional vign. title to each part, contemp. calf gilt, a little rubbed, 12mo, plus Ball (John, ed.), Peaks, Passes, and Glaciers. A Series of Excursions by Members of the Alpine Club, 5th ed., 1860, folding maps, b & w illusts., contemp. half calf, rubbed and marked, small 8vo, and Tennant (Charles), A Tour Through Parts of the Netherlands, Holland, Germany, Switzerland, Savoy, and France, in the Year 1821-2, 2 vols., 1824, contemp. calf, worn with covers near or part-detached, 8vo, plus others similar on Switzerland and the Alps including William Coxe, Travels in Switzerland, 3 vols., 1789 (lacking two maps), L. Simond, Travels in Switzerland, 1817, 1818, and 1819, printed for Sir Richard Phillips, 1822, etc., mostly leather-bound, 8vo (22)

£150-200

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£200-300

£100-150

28 Eckenstein (Oscar & Lorria, August, editors). The Alpine Portfolio. The Pennine Alps, from the Simplon to the Great St. Bernard, [1889], 101 b & w photographs by Vittorio Sella, Mrs Le Blond, W.F. Donkin and others, mounted on thick card (most plts. reguarded), some minor spotting and edge wear, 33 pp. introductory text and list of illustrations, retaining orig. printed wrappers, recently rebound in blind-panelled red full morocco, thick 4to

31 Forbes (John). A Physician’s Holiday or A Month in Switzerland in the Summer of 1848, 1st ed., John Murray, 1849, four tinted lithos. including title, folding map, orig. reeded cloth gilt, some fraying to extrems, together with Sight-Seeing in Germany and the Tyrol in the Autumn of 1855, 1st ed., 1856, tinted litho. frontis., folding map (short tear), 16 pp. publisher’s catalogue to rear, orig. blindstamped cloth gilt, recased with original backstrip relaid, both 8vo

Neate E06. Eckenstein & Lorria climbed together in the 1880s.

(1) £1000-1500

The first volume inscribed by the author to half title. Sir John Forbes (17871861) a Scottish physician and medical writer, produced several continental travel books, initially inspired by a Swiss holiday.

(2) £150-200

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32 Forbes (James D.). Travels Through the Alps of Savoy and Other Parts of the Pennine Chain with Observations on the Phenomena of Glaciers, 1st ed., Edinburgh, 1843, tinted litho. frontis., eight uncol. litho. plts., single-page map, wood-engs. to text but lacks the folding map of the Mer de Glace of Chamouni, 4 pp. publisher’s ads at rear, orig. blind-stamped cloth, rebacked, preserving orig. spine, somewhat rubbed and corners bumped, together with Rendu (Le Chanoine), Theory of the Glaciers of Savoy, trans. Alfred Wills, To Which are Added the Original Memoir; and Supplementary Articles,

by P.G. Tait, and John Ruskin, Edited, with Introductory Remarks, by George Forbes, 1874, half-title present, single-page map, three or four indelible ink stamps, 65 pp. publisher’s catalogue at rear, orig. cloth gilt, rubbed and sl. frayed at head and foot of spine, together with Hobbs (William Herbert), Characteristics of Existing Glaciers, New York, 1922, numerous b & w illusts. from photos, sketch maps and diags. to text, orig. cloth gilt, a little rubbed, plus Tutton (A.E.H.), The Natural History of Ice and Snow Illustrated from the Alps, 1st ed., 1927, presentation copy from the author’s wife, signed and inscribed on flyleaf, b & w illusts. from photos, diags. to text, orig. cloth gilt, a little rubbed, all 8vo, and others related (16)

£100-150

33 Forbes (James D.). Travels Through the Alps, new edition, revised and annotated, by W.A.B. Coolidge, 1900, port. frontis., numerous wood-engs. to text, six folding maps (map of The Pennine Alps supplied in facsimile), t.e.g., remainder untrimmed, orig. cloth gilt, rubbed on spine, minor wear to head and foot, together with Coolidge (W.A.B.), The Alps in Nature and History, 1st ed., 1908, b & w illusts. from photos, seven folding diags. but without the general map of the Alps, 40 pp. publisher’s catalogue at rear, some spotting, orig. cloth, gilt-dec. spine, a little rubbed, plus Alpine Studies, by W.A.B. Coolidge, 1st ed., 1912, b & w illusts. from photos, some minor fore-edge spotting, orig. cloth, rubbed and faded on spine, all 8vo Neate F45, C127, C126.

(3)

Lot 34

£70-100

34 Forbes (James D.). Norway and its Glaciers visited in 1851; followed by Journals of Excursions in the High Alps of Dauphine, Berne, and Savoy, 1st ed., Edinburgh, 1853, half title, two printed maps (one map folding with a few short tears), ten colour litho. plates, a few brown spots, wood engraved illusts to text, marbled edges, modern half calf, 8vo Neate F44.

(1)

£150-200

35 Forbes (Charles S.). Iceland; its Volcanoes, Geysers, and Glaciers, 1st ed., 1860, folding map at end, wood-engraved illustrations, a few spots, endpapers renewed, modern cloth with original covers and spine relaid, some fading and spotting, 8vo, together with Across Iceland. The Land of Frost and Fire, by Olive Murray Chapman, 1st ed., 1930, colour frontis. (detached), map and half-tone illustrations (one loose), occasional spotting, presentation inscription, original cloth in repaired d.j., 8vo, with others on Iceland including Ida Pfeiffer’s Visit to Iceland and the Scandinavian North, 2nd ed., 1853, and Pliny Miles’ Nordufari; Or Rambles in Iceland, Traveller’s Library, parts I & II, 1854 Neate F43.

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£100-150

36 Freshfield (Douglas W.). The Life of Horace Benedict de Saussure, 1st ed., 1920, portrait frontispiece, b & w illustrations, one or two spots, map endpaper at front, original burgundy cloth, edges lightly rubbed, corners a little bumbed, 8vo Neate F67. “This book gained Freshfield an Honorary Doctorate of Laws from the University of Geneva. A delightful study of early mountaineering and life in eighteenth century Geneva.”

(1) £150-200

Lot 36

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37 Freshfield (Douglas W.). Italian Alps. Sketches in the Mountains of Ticino, Lombardy, the Trentino, and Venetia, 1st ed., 1875, five folding maps (one detached), wood-engraved plates, ad. leaf at end, a few spots, original green decorative cloth, edges a little rubbed, 8vo Neate F66.

(1)

£150-200

38 Freshfield (Douglas W.). Hannibal Once More, 1st ed., 1914, three folding maps, illustrations, light spots, original cloth, spine faded at foot, 8vo, together with Round Kangchenjunga. A Narrative of Mountain Travel and Exploration, 1st ed., 1903, folding map and panorama (lacking Geological map of Sikhim), tears along folds, map repaired to verso, b & w plates, occasional marginal water stains and library inkstamps, modern half calf, 8vo, with two others by Freshfield: Unto the Hills, 1914 and Below the Snow Line, 1923 Neate F65; F69; F72; F63.

(4)

£200-300

39 Freshfield (Jane, Mrs Henry). Alpine Byways or Light Leaves gathered in 1859 and 1860, 1st ed., 1861, seven tinted lithos only (of eight), four maps, some spotting and marks, orig. cloth gilt, fraying to head of spine, together with A Summer Tour in The Grisons and Italian Valleys of the Bernina,1st ed., 1862, two folding maps, four tinted litho. plates, marble edges and endpapers, late 19th century full calf gilt decorated prize binding from Trent College, sl. rubbed and darkened, both 8vo Neate F73, Classic travel book; tours through the Bernese and Pennine Alps by the Freshfield family; F74, This account of a then little known area sent the first wave of English summer visitors to the Engadine.

(2) £200-300

Lot 37

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42 Gribble (Francis). The Early Mountaineers, 1st ed., 1899, b & w plates, t.e.g., orig. cloth gilt, a little dampstaining to final portion, 8vo, together with Lake Geneva and its Literary Landmarks, 1st ed., Westminster, 1901, photogravure portrait frontis. of Rousseau, numerous b & w plates, t.e.g., orig. dec. cloth, rubbed and faded to spine, 8vo, plus Geneva Painted by J. Hardwicke Lewis & May Hardwicke Lewis, A & C Black, 1908, colour plates, orig. cloth gilt, rubbed, 4to Neate G67 (first item): “Authoritative and detailed record of pre-nineteenth century mountaineering in the Alps and Pyrenees”.

(3) £100-150

40 George (Hereford Brooke). The Oberland and its Glaciers: Explored and Illustrated with Ice-axe and Camera, 1st ed., Alfred.

W. Bennett, 1866, 28 mounted albumen photographs by Ernest Edwards, double-page litho. map, lacking front blank, light scattered spotting, orig. green cloth gilt, rubbed to extrems, 4to Neate G13: “Ernest Edwards was considered to be the best of the early amateur Alpine photograpers”.

(1) £150-200

43 Grove (F.C.). ‘The Frosty Caucasus’. An Account of a Walk Through Part of the Range and of an Ascent of Elbruze in the Summer of 1874, 1st ed., 1875, wood-engs., folding map and single ad leaf at rear, errata slip inserted before p. 1, label for “Willenhall Wesleyan Mutual Improvement Society” pasted to f.e.p., orig. dec. cloth, rubbed, together with Bryce (James), Transcaucasia and Ararat: Being Notes of a Vacation Tour in the Autumn of 1876, 1st ed., 1877, wood-eng. frontis., double-page map, 36 pp. publisher’s catalogue at rear, orig. cloth gilt, rubbed and minor wear to joints, both 8vo Neate G75 & B203.

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41 Gilbert (Josiah & Churchill, G.C.). The Dolomite Mountains.

Excursions Through Tyrol, Carinthia, Carniola, & Friuli, in 1861, 1862 & 1963, 1st ed., 1864, half-title present, six chromos., two folding maps, wood-engs. to text, some light dampstaining, recent half calf gilt, 8vo Neate G18. An alpine travel classic.

(1)

£150-200

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£100-150

44 Gsell-Els (Dr. Theodor). Switzerland: Its Scenery and People.

Pictorially Represented by Eminent Swiss and German Artists, 1881, numerous wood-engs. including some hand-tinted, upper corner of half-title excised, a.e.g., orig. dec. cloth, frayed at head and foot of spine, thick folio (1)

£70-100

45 Heer (J.C.). The Lake of Lucerne and the Forest Cantons...

Translated from the German by John C. Milligan, Zurich and Leipzig, 1900, numerous b & w illustrations, t.e.g., original red cloth, spine faded, one or two stains, 4to, together with La Montagne a Travers les Ages, by John Grand-Carteret, 1903, illustrations, one or two spots, original cloth, 4to, plus La Route du Simplon, by Frederic Barbey, Geneva, 1906, b & w illustrations, a few spots, press cuttings at front, original blue cloth, edges slightly rubbed, 4to, with five others related Lot 44

(8)

£100-150

46 Hinchliff (Thomas Woodbine). Over the Sea and Far Away: being a Narrative of Wanderings Round the World, 1st ed., 1876, half title, fourteen full-page wood engraved plates including frontis., modern half sheep over marbled boards, 8vo Inscribed to half-title “Chas. Wheatley May 25th 76” and probably the copy belonging to a Mr. Wheatley referred to in the text (see p. 118). Thomas Woodbine Hinchliff (1825-1882) did much to bring mountaineering into vogue and was one of the founders of the Alpine Club in 1857. An injury to his hand curtailed his climbing explots but he continued to travel widely and this account records his trip around the World taken in 1873-4.

(1) £200-300

47 Hinchliff (Thomas W.). Summer Months Among the Alps: With the Ascent of Monte Rosa, 1st ed., 1857, three folding eng. maps printed in blue tint, four tinted litho. plts. (all correct as list), some minor spotting of prelims., a.e.g., near-contemp. dark green polished calf, gilt-dec. spine with red morocco label, a little rubbed and corners sl. bumped, 8vo Neate H96. A classic of the ‘Golden Age’. Hinchliffe was a lawyer, botanist and traveller, whose climbing career was curtailed by a shotgun accident to his hand. He was president of the Alpine Club 1875-77 and his book and his personality were decisive influences on contemporary mountaineering.

(1) £100-150

Lot 46

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Lot 48

Lot 49

48 Hornby (Emily). A Tour in the Alps of Dauphine and A Tour in the Carpathians, 1st ed., Liverpool, 1906, orig. green cloth gilt, slightly rubbed to extrems, 8vo Not recorded in Neate.

(1)

52 Larden (Walter). Inscriptions from Swiss Chalets. A Collection of Inscriptions Found Outside and Inside Swiss Chalets, Storehouses and Sheds, Printed for the Author by Horace Hart, at the University Press, Oxford, 1913, b & w illusts. from photos, orig. cloth gilt, rubbed, together with Recollections of an Old Mountaineer, 1st ed., 1910, b & w illusts. from photos, 20 pp. publisher’s catalogue bound in at rear, orig. cloth gilt, a little rubbed and minor wear to extremities, both 8vo, and Guide to the Walks & Climbs Around Arolla, Collected and Written by Walter Larden, A.C., (Printed from Ms. Guides made Earlier), 1908, b & w illusts., orig. cloth gilt, a little rubbed, small 4to (14 x 11cm)

£150-200

49 Hornby (Emily). Mountaineering Records, 1st ed., Liverpool, 1907, inscribed “Mary Hardingham from M.L. Hornby, July 1907”, endpapers browned, inner hinges and spine strengthened with adhesive, orig. green cloth gilt, sl. rubbed and marked, 8vo Neate H113 “Record of ascents, 1873-95, by a leading woman climber of her generation”.

(1) £100-150

Neate L12 & L11 for the second and third titles respectively.

(3)

50 Innerleithen Alpine Club. Principal Excursions of the Innerleithen Alpine Club during the Years 1889-94; with a Memoir of the Late Mr Robert Mathison, First President of the Club, 1st ed., pub. John McQueen, “Scottish Border Record” Office, Galashiels, 1895, photo. portrait frontis., fifteen b & w photo. illusts, orig. maroon cloth, a litle fraying to head and foot of spine, 8vo Neate I08.

(1)

£70-100

53 Law (William John). The Alps of Hannibal, 2 parts in one, 1st ed., 1866, two folding maps (one with orig. hand colouring), orig. blindstamped cloth, rebacked with new endpapers, together with [Cramer, John Anthony], A Dissertation on the Passage of Hannibal over the Alps, Oxford, 1820, folding map (with single fold tear), two engraved plans and one other plate, modern half calf, plus Ellis (Robert), A Treatise on Hannibal’s Passage of the Alps, in which his Route is Traced over the Little Mont Cenis, Cambridge, 1853, six engraved maps and plates (including three folding), advertisement endpapers, orig. cloth gilt, some edge fraying, plus other books relating to Hannibal’s crossing of the Alps by Gavin de Beer, John Hoyte, Bernard Levin, etc., all 8vo

£100-150

51 King (Rev. S.W.). The Italian Valleys of the Pennine Alps: A Tour through all the Romantic and Less-Frequented “Vals” of Northern Piedmont, from the Tarentaise to the Gries, 1st ed., John Murray, 1858, three folding maps, wood engraved illusts, spotting to endpapers, contemp. half calf, rubbed and scuffed, 8vo Neate K23.

(1)

Lot 50

(9)

£100-150

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£150-200

54 Le Blond (Elizabeth Alice Frances). Adventures on the Roof of the World, 1st ed., 1904, b & w photo. plates, t.e.g. remainder rough-trimmed, light spotting, orig. pictorial cloth gilt, rubbed to extrems, together with Mountaineering in the Land of the Midnight Sun, 1st ed., 1908, b & w photo. plates, folding map, t.e.g. remainder rough-trimmed, orig. pictorial cloth gilt, plus Day in, Day Out, 1st ed., 1928, b & w photo. plates, orig. cloth, dust-wrapper with a little edge fraying, plus three others by Mrs Le Blond including an early reprint of ‘True Tales of Mountain Adventure’ (1903) and two copies of ‘My Home in the Alps’ (1892), all 8vo

55 Le Blond (Elizabeth Alice Frances). The High Alps in Winter; or, Mountaineering in Search of Health. By Mrs. Fred Burnaby, 1st ed., 1883, mounted portrait photograph frontis., two maps (including one folding), four wood engraved plates, 32 pp. publisher’s catalogue to rear, orig. pictorial cloth gilt, a little fraying to extrems, 8vo, together with High Life and Towers of Silence, 1st ed., 1886, b & w plates, a.e.g., contemp. maroon half calf with gilt dec. spine, 8vo, and two other copies of the same work, both bound in the original cloth, one dampstained, plus True Tales of Mountain Adventure for Non-Climbers Young and Old, 1903, b & w photo. plates, modern cloth gilt, all 8vo

Neate L19, L24, L20 & L26. Elizabeth Le Blond (1860-1934) was married three times and also wrote under the name Mrs Main. She spent most of her time in the Swiss Alps, ostensibly for health reasons, where she indulged her passions for mountaineering and photography, writing books on both subjects.

(6) £100-150

Neate L21, L22 & L26. Elizabeth Le Blond was married three times and also wrote as Mrs Burnaby and Mrs Main.

(5) £100-150

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Lot 58

56 Longman (William and Henry Trover). Journal of Six Weeks’ Adventures in Switzerland, Piedmont, and on the Italian Lakes. By W.L. and H.T. June, July, August, 1856, 1st ed., 1856, half title, hand coloured folding map, modern black half crushed-morocco by Lloyd’s of Knighton, 8vo Neate L46: “Longman’s first Alpine tour. Although his climbing career was undistinguished he rose to become president of the Alpine Club (1872-4)”.

(1) £200-300

57 Longman (W.). A Lecture on Switzerland (printed for private circulation), July 1857, 94 pp., half-title inscribed ‘From the author’, contents leaf loose, contemp. blind-stamped cloth gilt by Westleys, with their ticket, chipped at head and foot of spine, slim 8vo (1)

£70-100

58 Mumm (A.L.). The Alpine Club Register, 3 vols., 1st ed., 192328, a few spots, original red cloth, vol. I with glassine wrapper, 8vo Neate 178. “Details of all memberselected to the Alpine Club from 1857 to 1890, including bibliographical details of their published writings... Invaluable reference source.”

(3) £200-300

59 Mummery (A.F.). My Climbs in the Alps and Caucasus, 1st ed., Fisher Unwin, 1895, eleven full-page plates including eight photogravures, b & w illusts to text, t.e.g. remainder rough-trimmed, light scattered spotting, orig. cloth gilt, 8vo Neate M181: “Mummery was an expert rock-climber and alpinist who made many important climbs in the Mont Blanc region. He led an 1895 expedition to Nanga Parbat, the ninth highest mountain in the World, with Collie and Bruce, and disappeared whilst reconnoitring”.

(1) £100-150

Lot 59

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63 Pritchett (Robert Taylor). ‘Gamle Norge’. Rambles and Scrambles in Norway, 1879, wood-eng. frontis., numerous woodengs. to text, a.e.g., orig. gilt-dec. cloth, some minor wear to joints and corners, 4to A handsome Large Paper copy.

(1)

64 Ramond (Louis-Francois). Travels in the Pyrenees; Containing a Description of the Principal Summits, Passes, and Vallies, Translated from the French of M. Ramond, by F. Gold, 1813, contemp. half calf, upper cover loose, rubbed and wear, 8vo, together with Weld (Charles Richard), The Pyrenees. West and East, 1859, b&w plts., contemp. half calf with morocco label to spine, 8vo, plus Spender (Harold), Through the High Pyrenees, 1898, num. b&w plts. and illusts., inscribed to front endpaper ‘To my Aunt Emily Headland, from her affectionate nephew, Harold Spender, 1899’, orig. cloth gilt, rubbed, 8vo, plus ten other Pyrenees related, incl. Alpine Climbers, by the Rev. Charles H. Chase, n.d., c. 1888; The Technique of Alpine Mountaineering, adapted by members of the Association of British Members of the S.A.C., n.d., c. 1935, etc.

60 Murray (Hon. James Erskine). A Summer in the Pyrenees, 2 vols, 2nd ed., 1842, twelve engraved plates, plates a little foxed, orig. blindstamped cloth, rubbed and marked, 8vo (1)

£200-300

61 Norman-Neruda (May, editor). The Climbs of Norman-Neruda, 1st ed., 1899, portrait frontispiece, half-tone illustrations, pubs. ads. at end, light spotting front and rear, t.e.g., original red cloth, spine and margins a little faded, 8vo Neate N24.

(1)

£70-100

62 Pause (Walter & Winkler, Jurgen). Im Extremen Fels, Munich, 1970, b & w photo. plates and diagrams, orig. cloth-backed printed boards, 4to, plus Schatz (Josef Julius), Wunder der Alpen, Munich, 1929, b & w photo. plates, orig. pictorial cloth, slightly spotted, folio, plus Lehner (Wilhelm), Die Eroberung der Alpen, Munich, 1924, b & w illusts, folding tables, orig. cloth-backed printed boards, some edge fraying, 4to, and Marczell (Jankovics), Az Alpesek, Budapest, 1911, b & w photo. plates, orig. cloth gilt, rubbed, 4to, plus other German language Alpine books printed 1930s-70s (19)

£70-100

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£150-200

65 Rey (Guido). The Matterhorn, 1st English ed., 1907, numerous b & w plates and illusts, t.e.g. remainder untrimmed, orig. cloth with leather spine label, slightly rubbed and marked, together with Peaks and Precipices: Scrambles in the Dolomites and Savoy, 1st English ed., 1914, b & w photo. plates, orig. cloth gilt, rubbed and a little faded to spine, both large 8vo Neate R25; R26: “One of the principal books on the early history of the Matterhorn, written by a wealthy Italian climber with a great passion for the mountain”.

(2) £150-200

£100-150

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Lot 66

66 Roth (Abraham). The Doldenhorn and Weisse Frau. Ascended for the First Time, 1st ed., Karl Baedeker, Coblenz, 1863, eleven colour litho. plates (including one double-page), folding map and two plain plates, wood engraved illusts to text, marble endpapers, contemp. half calf, rubbed and scuffed, 8vo Neate R77 :”This finely illustrated book includes accounts of earlier attempts”.

(1) £400-600

67 Sinigaglia (Leone). Climbing Reminiscences of the Dolomites, with an Introduction by Edmund J. Garwood, Translated by Mary Alice Vialls, 1896, photogravure frontis., b & w illusts. from photos, folding map, orig. pict. cloth, a little rubbed (new endpapers), 8vo Neate S78. Leone Sinigaglia (1868-1944), Italian mountaineer, was by profession a musician and composer. He died of a heart attack on the eve of being sent as slave labour to Nazi Germany.

(1) £100-150

Lot 67

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68 Slingsby (William Cecil). Norway, the Northern Playground.

Sketches of Climbing in the Mountain Exploration in Norway Between 1872 and 1903, 1st ed., Edinburgh, 1904, thirty-two fullpage plts., mostly from photographs, b & w illusts. to text, nine maps, all complete as list, orig. light green cloth gilt, rubbed, 8vo Neate S83. The classic, indispensable work on the region.

(1)

£500-700

69 Smith (William, Jr., of Morley, Yorkshire). Adventures with my Alpen-stock and Carpet-bag, or a Three Weeks’ Trip to France and Switzerland, 1st ed., 1864, mounted albumen print port. frontis., carte size by Harrison of Leeds, minor spotting at front and rear, a.e.g., orig. green cloth gilt, small 8vo Rare. Not in Gernsheim, Incunabula of British Photographic Literature 1839-1875.

(1) £100-150

Lot 68

70 Steinitzer (Alfred). Der Alpinismus in Bildern, 1st ed., Munich, 1913, mounted colour plates, numerous b & w illusts, orig. pictorial cloth, sl. rubbed and darkened, folio (1)

Lot 69

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£150-200

73 Stutfield (Hugh E.M. and Collie, J. Norman). Climbs & Exploration in the Canadian Rockies, 1st ed., 1903, half-title present, frontis., b & w illusts. from photos, large folding map at rear, orig. cloth gilt, a trifle rubbed, 8vo

71 Stephen (Leslie). The Playground of Europe, 1st ed., 1871, vign. title and four wood-eng. plts., 32 pp. publisher’s catalogue at rear, orig. blind-stamped cloth gilt, a little rubbed and faded on spine, together with Maitland (Frederic William), The Life and Letters of Leslie Stephen, 3rd imp., 1910, photogravure port. frontis., t.e.g., orig. cloth gilt, damp spotted, plus Annan (Noel), Leslie Stephen.

The Godless Victorian, New York, 1984, frontis., b & w illusts. from photos, orig. linen-backed boards in d.j., all 8vo, and one other related Neate S165, M33 and A55.

(4)

Neate S177. ‘One of the classics of the Canadian Rockies’.

(1)

74 Swiss Alpine Club. Inauguration of the Cabane Britannia on the Klein Allalinhorne Saas Fee, August 17th, 1912, and Obituary Notices and Portrait of Clinton Dent, pub. Association of the British Members of the Swiss Alpine Club, 1913, b & w photo. plates, loosely inserted leaflet raising subscriptions for a memorial to Clinton Dent, orig. green cloth gilt, slightly rubbed to extrems, 8vo

£70-100

Neate A67: “The Britannia hut is the only mountain refuge in the Alps built enirely by money raised by British climbers. Clinton Dent was the first president of the Association, 1909-12”. Bookplate of mountaineer William Cecil Slingsby (1849-1929), best known for many first ascents in Norway.

(1) £70-100

72 Stock (E. Elliot). Scrambles in Storm and Sunshine. Among the Swiss & English Alps, 1st ed., pub. John Ouseley Ltd., [1911], publisher’s signed presentation copy to William Bull, MP (with his armorial bookplate), four b & w illusts. by R.C. Armour and twentyfour illusts. from photos, orig. pict. cloth, a little rubbed and faded on spine, (Neate S170), together with Wherry (George), Alpine Notes & The Climbing Foot, 1st ed., Cambridge, 1896, Notes from a Knapsack, 1st ed., Cambridge, 1909, b & w illusts. from photos and illusts. to text, both orig. cloth gilt, sl. rubbed, (Neate W50), plus Burlingham (Frederick), How to Become an Alpinist, [1914], b & w illusts. from photos, 10 p. publisher’s ads at rear, some minor scattered spotting, orig. linen-backed boards, a little rubbed, (Neate B217) all 8vo (10)

£150-200

75 Talfourd (T.N.). Recollections of a First Visit to the Alps, in August and September 1841, printed for private circulation, [1841], occasional small inkstamps and light spotting, p.ix with marginal repaired tear, endpapers renewed, original blindstamped cloth, modern reback, some fading, 12mo (not in Neate), together with Sir T.N. Talfourd’s Vacation Rambles. Comprising the Recollections of three Continental Tours, in the Vacations of 1841, 1842 and 1843, 3rd ed., 1851 and Supplement to “Vacation Rambles”, 1854 Neate T01.

(3)

£150-200

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£150-200

78 Tyndall (John). Mountaineering in 1861. A Vacation Tour, 1st ed., 1862, two full-page wood engraved plates, carte-de-visite of the author attached to front endpaper, two tipped-in albumen Alpine photographs to text, ink notes and clippings to rear endpapers, orig. blindstamped cloth gilt, rubbed to extrems, 8vo, together with The Glaciers of the Alps, 1st ed., John Murray, 1860, wood engraved illusts, contemp. half calf, joints repaired and new endpapers, and Hours of Exercise in the Alps, New York, 1874, wood engraved illusts, contemp. half calf, rubbed, plus two others related, all 8vo Neate T77, T75 & T76. Tyndall (1820-1893), a physicist and enthusiastic mountaineer, joined the Alpine Club in 1858 and with F.W. Hawkins made one of the earliest attempts on the Matterhorn in 1860, as well as the first ascent of the Weisshorn in 1861.

(5) £200-300

76 Tissot (Victor). Unknown Switzerland, Reminiscences of Travel, 1st ed., New York, 1900, b & w photogravure plts., folding map at rear, t.e.g., orig. gilt-dec. pict. cloth in bright condition, 8vo, together with Sennett (A.R.), Across the Great St. Bernard, The Modes of Nature and the Manners of Man, 1st ed., 1904, b & w illusts. to text, orig. cloth gilt, 8vo, plus Worsfold (W. Basil), The Valley of Light, Studies with Pen and Pencil in the Vaudois Valleys of Piedmont, 1st ed., pub. Macmillan, 1899, folding map frontis., b & w illusts. to text, some spotting throughout, orig. blue cloth gilt, 8vo, and other early to mid 20th-c. publications on Switzerland and the Alps, including Constance Leigh Clare, The Brenner Pass, 1st ed., 1912, Harold Spender, In Praise of Switzerland, 1st ed., 1912, Reginald A. Malby, With Camera and Rucksack in the Oberland and Valais, n.d., c. 1910, Edmund B. D’Auvergne, Switzerland in Sunshine & Snow, n.d., c.

1910, Amy Oakley, Cloud-Lands of France, 1st ed., 1927, W.E. Durham, Summer Holidays in the Alps, 1898-1914, 1st ed., 1916, etc., mostly orig. cloth, some in d.j.s, mainly 8vo (approx. 50)

£150-200

79 Whymper (Edward). Scrambles Amongst the Alps in the Years 1860-69, 4th ed., 1893, five folding maps (one with marginal reinforcement), plates and illustrations, t.e.g., original deluxe cream cloth by Zaehnsdorf, gilt snowflakes to covers, upper joint splitting, some discolouration, 8vo

77 Tuckett (F.F.). A Pioneer in the High Alps. Alpine Diaries and Letters, 1st ed., 1920, photogravure port. frontis., five half-tone plts., two folding diags., all correct as list, orig. cloth gilt, rubbed and faded on spine, (Neate T69), together with Marsh (Dr. Herbert), Two Seasons in Switzerland, 1st ed., 1895, b & w illusts. from photos by O. Williamson, t.e.g., remainder rough-trimmed, orig. dec. cloth, a little rubbed, plus Javelle (Emile), Alpine Memories, with a Biographical and Literary Notice by Eugene Rambert, 1st ed., 1899, four half-tone plts., t.e.g., remainder rough-trimmed, orig. cloth gilt, a little rubbed on spine, (Neate J21), all 8vo (3)

Neate W65. “Regarded as the definitive edition.”

(1)

£100-150

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£150-200

80 Whymper (Edward). How to use the Aneroid Barometer, 1st ed., 1891, orig. printed paper wrappers, browning to edges, 8vo Neate W62 :”Tables and information based largely on his experiences in the Andes. This monograph is virtually another appendix of his book ‘Travels amongst the Great Andes’”.

(1) £70-100

81 Whymper (Edward). The Ascent of the Matterhorn, 3rd ed., John Murray, 1880, half title, numerous wood engraved illusts, two litho. maps (one map folding with a few short splits), marbled endpapers and page edges, contemp. half calf, lower board neardetached, 8vo Neate W65. An abridged edition of Whymper’s classic “Scrambles amongst the Alps”, first published in 1871. Edward Whymper (1840-1911) made the first successful ascent of the Matterhorn on 14 July 1865, though four climbers in his party were tragically killed on the descent. Ex-libris Sydney Courtauld (1840-1899, silk manufacturer) with his engraved armorial bookplate.

(1) £70-100

82 Wickham (Henry Lewis & Cramer, John Anthony). A Dissertation on the Passage of Hannibal over the Alps, 1st ed., Oxford, 1820, three folding maps (including one hand coloured), one other folding plate, a.e.g., contemp. fine crimson crushed-morocco panelled in gilt, with gilt decorated spine in six compartments, rubbed to extrems, 8vo Inscribed “To. R.C. Stansfield Esq from the author. One of only 12 copies taken on Large Paper”.

(1) £200-300

83 Williams (W. Mattieu). Through Norway with Ladies, 1st ed., 1877, wood-engs., folding map and 36 pp. publisher’s catalogue at rear, some minor spotting, orig. cloth gilt, a little rubbed and marked, together with Mockler-Ferryman (Major A.F.), In the Northman’s Land. Travel, Sport, and Folk-lore in the Hardanger Fjord and Fjeld, 1st ed., 1896, b & w illusts. from photos, folding map, orig. cloth gilt, rubbed and minor wear to extremities, plus Oppenheim (E.C.), New Climbs in Norway. An Account of Some Ascents in the Sondmore District, 1st ed., 1898, photogravure frontis. (fore-edge a little frayed), numerous b & w illusts. from photos and drawings by A.D. McCormick, t.e.g., remainder rough-trimmed, orig. green cloth, lettered in gilt, large b & w photographic print to upper cover (badly rubbed), 8vo (Neate O12), and Lees (J.A.), Peaks and Pines, Another Norway Book, 1st ed., 1899, b & w illusts. from photos and illusts. by the author, orig. pict. cloth, a little rubbed and soiled, all 8vo, and Gunneng (Asbjorn and Schlytter, Boye), Climbs in the Horungtinder, Norway, Edited Norsk Tindeklub, pub. Oslo, 1933, 23 pp., b & w illusts. from photos, folding map contained in rear pocket, orig. printed wrappers, a little dust soiled, (Neate Q863), with others of Norwegian interest including four climbing and holiday guides to Norway by Per Prag, and three by Tony Howard, plus a photograph album chronicling a Norwegian cruise in 1956, etc.

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£100-150

84 Williams (William). My Summer in the Alps 1913, New York, Privately Printed, 1914, one of 300 copies on Dutch handmade paper, six b & w photo. plates, rough-trimmed, orig. vellum-backed paper-covered boards, lettered in gilt to upper cover, rubbbed to extrems with corners bumped, together with Mountain Climbing 1899 and 1905, n.d. [c.1929], 24 pp., loosely inserted letter from the author dated 1929, orig. printed wrappers, sewn as issued, both 8vo Neate W89 (first item).

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£70-100

85 Willink (Henry George). An album containing 35 silver-oxide photographic reproductions of alpine illustrations by Willink, the images dated between 1897-1890, each measuring 16 x 11.5cm, all images with ink captions beneath, mounted on album rectos only, a.e.g., contemp. half morocco, lettered in gilt “Willink’s Sketches” to upper cover, upper board near detached, folio (310 x 260 mm), together with a privately printed reprint of Willink’s biography first published in the Alpine Journal, with two plates, orig. printed card wrappers, 8vo The biography volume with a loosely inserted letter, dated March 1940, from Willink’s daughter, Catherine D. Pilkington, to the geologist Sir Franklin Sibly: “I feel that you may like to possess this small memoir which my husband & I wrote of my father for the Alpine Journal and have had separately printed...”. Henry George Willink (1851-1938) was educated at Brasenose and called to the bar soon afterwards. He inherited a keen interest in climbing and Alpine walking from his father and was elected to the Alpine Club in 1880, serving as Vice-President from 18991901. A keen amateur artist he was commissioned to illustrate the Badminton Library Mountaineering volume, written by his friend C.T. Dent. This album is contemporary with the images and and may have been Willink’s own copy. Label inside the rear cover of W.M. Spooner & Co., photographers and publishers, 379 Strand.

(2) £500-700

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86 Wills (Alfred). ‘The Eagle’s Nest’ in the Valley of the Sixt; A Summer Home Among the Alps: Together with Some Excursions Among the Great Glaciers, 1st ed., 1860, half-title, two folding eng. maps, eng. dedication leaf, twelve tinted litho. plts., 4 pp. publisher’s ads at rear, orig. gilt-dec. cloth, a little rubbed and dulled on spine, 8vo Neate W93.

(1)

£150-200

87 Wills (Alfred). Wanderings Among the High Alps, 1st ed., 1856, half title, four tinted litho. plates, orig. green blindstamped cloth gilt, slightly rubbed, together with a 2nd edition of the same work (1858), also in orig. blindstamped cloth, 8vo Neate W94: “Alfred Wills was an original Alpine Club member and President, 1864-5. While his ascent of the Wetterhorn was not particularly momentous, it is customarily accepted as ushering in the ‘Golden Age’ of mountaineering”.

Bearing bookplates of William Tulloh Fraser (East India Merchant, died 1862) and C.S. Ascherson whose collection was sold to Quaritch about 1944.

(2) £150-200

88 Wilson (H. Schutz). Alpine Ascents and Adventures; Or, Rock and Snow Sketches, 2nd ed., 1878, b & w wood-eng. illusts., 32 pp. pubs cat. at rear, some light spotting to endpapers, orig. dec. cloth gilt, rubbed and spine dulled, with minor fraying to extreme head and foot, 8vo, together with Havergal (Frances Ridley), Life Chords Comprising ‘Zenith,’ ‘Loyal Responses,’ and Other Poems, 1st ed., 1880, Swiss Letters and Alpine Poems, ed. J. Miriam Crane, 1st ed., 1882, twelve full-page chromo. illustrations of alpine scenery to each vol., a.e.g., both orig. dec. cloth gilt, rubbed, 8vo, plus The Peasants of Chamouni.

Containing an Attempt to Reach the Summit of Mont Blanc, and a Delineation of the Scenery Among the Alps, 2nd ed., Printed for Baldwin, Cradock, & Joy, 1826, b & w eng. frontis., wood-eng. vign. to title, adverts at rear, modern half calf gilt, 12mo, and other similar 19thc. publications relating to Switzerland and the Alps, including Silas K. Hocking, Up the Rhine and Over the Alps, n.d., c. 1860s, Lee Meriwether, A Tramp Trip, New York, n.d., c 1870s, W.A. Baillie Grohman, Tyrol and the Tyrolese, 2nd ed., 1877, Mrs Newman Hall, Through the Tyrol to Venice, 1860, J. Sowerby, The Forest Cantons of Switzerland, 1892, etc., mostly orig. cloth (one or two leather-bound), mainly 8vo

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£150-200

89 Wilson (Claude). Mountaineering, with Illustrations by Ellis Carr, 1st ed., 1893, b & w wood engraved illusts, ownership inscription to front endpaper, edges rough-trimmed, orig. printed wrappers, covers detached and spine darkened, 8vo Number 29 of 50 copies. Neate W96: “Instructional: a delightful period piece”.

(1) £100-150

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90 Wilson (Claude). An Epitome of Fifty Years’ Climbing, Printed for Private Circulation, 1933, orig. printed paper wrappers, contained in orig. glassine wrapper (a little chipped) and protective postal envelope, 8vo Neate W97: “Chiefly a list of his climbs”. Inscribed by the author to C.W. Nettleton. Number 93 of 125 copies.

(1) £150-200

92 Wundt (Theodor). Die Besteigung des Cimone Della Pala. Ein Album fur Kletterer und Dolomiten-Freunde, 1st ed., Stuttgart, [1892], 24 full-page photo. plates, numerous photo. illusts to text, orig. pictorial cloth gilt, sympathetic cloth reback with new endpapers, together with two other works by Wundt including “Die Jungfrau und das Berner Oberland” (1897) and “Das Matterhorn und Seine Geschichte” (1916), both bound in orig. pictorial cloth, all folio (3)

£200-300

93 Yeld (George). Scrambles in the Eastern Graians 1878-1897, 1st ed., 1900, photogravure frontis., folding map, illustrations, a few spots, t.e.g., original blue cloth gilt, spine faded with stains, 8vo Neate Y07. Presentation copy, inscribed to front endpaper: “Mrs Handford, with the author’s kind regards, July 1900”.

(1) £100-150

91 Wundt (Theodor). Wanderungen in den Ampezzaner Dolomiten. Herausgegeben von der Sektion Berlin des Deutschen und Oesterreichischen Alpenvereins, Berlin, [1893], folding litho. map to rear, 37 full-page photo. plates, numerous illusts to text, decorated endpapers, a few leaves loose, orig. pictorial cloth gilt, some fraying to spine, folio (1)

£200-300

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94 Zschokke (Johann Heinrich Daniel). Vues Classiques de la Suisse, gravées sur acier par H. Winkles et les meilleurs artistes de Londres, d’après les dessins de G. Ad. Muller, trans. E. Haag, 2 vols., Carlsruhe, 1838, eighty (of 86) fine uncol. steel-eng. views on india paper, most with tissue guard, some minor scattered spotting, mainly to margins, untrimmed, orig. self-patterned green cloth, some wear, 4to Ex-libris Charles Thurston Holland, with his bookplate, famous 1930s climber.

(2) £70-100

95 Zsigmondy (Emil). In the High Mountains, trans. Olwyn Grimshaw, 1st English ed., The Ernest Press, 1992, sixteen full-page b & w plts. after watercolour drawings by E.T. Compton, numerous illusts. to text, a.e.g., orig. dec. cloth, 4to Zsigmondy died while attempting a new route on La Meije, his book, ‘Im Hochgebirge’ was first published in 1889, four years after his fatal accident, and was never translated.

(1) £70-100

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96 Zurbriggen (Mattias). From the Alps to the Andes being the Autobiography of a Mountain Guide, 1st ed., 1899, numerous b & w illusts, publisher’s advertisements to rear, t.e.g., orig. red cloth gilt, a little fraying to extrems, 8vo Neate Z03: “Biography of the guide who accompanied Conway to the Karakoram; and Fitzgerald to New Zealand and the Andes”.

(1) £150-200

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MONT BLANC 98 Auldjo (John). Narrative of an Ascent to the Summit of Mont Blanc, on the 8th and 9th August, 1827, 1st ed., 1828, half-title present, eighteen litho. plts., some on india paper, part-folding circular eng. map, hand-col. in outline, uncol. folding panorama, folding part-coloured geological and comparative table and singlepage hand-col. table of the heights of the mountains (all correct as list), some minor scattered spotting, orig. grey boards, worn on spine and corners, upper cover detached, 4to A wide-margined copy. Neate A75. ‘Auldjo made the nineteenth ascent of Mont Blanc. His book was the first to popularise Mont Blanc and its influence persisted until the 1850s and the ‘Golden Age’ of mountaineering.

(1) £700-1000

97 [Atkins, Henry Martin]. Ascent to the Summit of Mont Blanc on the 22nd and 23rd of August, 1837, 1st ed., [not published], 1838, six litho. plates including frontis., orig. blindstamped cloth gilt, faded with a little fraying to head and foot of spine, 8vo Neate A72. Atkins made the 24th ascent of Mont Blanc. The work was reissued in 1842 to include an account of his funeral. This copy includes three loosely inserted 1930s letters in Italian, two signed by climber Giuseppe Dimai.

(1) £400-600

99 Barry (Martin). Ascent to the Summit of Mont Blanc in 1834, 2nd ed., 1836, folding litho. panorama, two hand coloured litho. plates, orig. moire cloth, rebacked with new endpapers, 8vo Neate B49. The second edition, revised and with the addition of the panorama.

(1) £200-300

100 Brown (T. Graham & De Beer, Sir Gavin). The First Ascent of Mont Blanc, 1st ed., Oxford University Press, 1957, colour and b & w plates, orig. cloth in excellent price-clipped dust-wrapper, (Neate B189), together with De Beer (G.R.), Travellers in Switzerland, 1st ed., OUP, 1949, b & w plates, orig. cloth in slightly chipped and frayed dust-wrapper, and De Beer (Dora H.), Yunnan 1938, 1st ed., 1971, b & w plates, orig. printed wrappers, plus a 1st edition of “Speaking of Switzerland” by G.R. De Beer and a Penguin paperback of the same, all 8vo

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£100-150

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101 Brown (T. Graham & De Beer, Sir Gavin). The First Ascent of Mont Blanc, 1st ed., Oxford University Press, 1957, colour and b & w plates, orig. cloth in excellent non price-clipped dust-wrapper, 8vo eate B189.

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£70-100

102 Clissold (Frederick). Narrative of an Ascent to the Summit of Mont Blanc, August 18th, 1822. With an Appendix, upon the Sensations Experienced at Great Elevations, 1st ed., Rivingtons and Cochran, 1823, a few underlinings and marginal notes, later leatherbacked cloth boards, rubbed and marked with some fraying to extrems, 8vo Neate C82. An account of the fifteenth ascent of Mont Blanc.

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£500-700

103 Dowsing (William). Rambles in Switzerland: with Reminiscences of The Great St. Bernard, Mont Blanc, and the Bernese Alps, 1st ed., 1869, two double-page wood engraved views, inner hinges cracking, orig. red blindstamped cloth gilt, rubbed and marked with some fraying to extrems, 8vo (1)

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£70-100

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104 Fellows (Charles). A Narrative of an Ascent to the Summit of Mont Blanc, 1st ed., 1827, additional vign. title, ten uncol. litho. plts., one facsimile certificate and one table of comparative heights, ‘Directions for placing the plates’ slip at rear, page size 29.5 x 23cm, some scattered spotting, mainly to margins, a.e.g., contemp. blind-panelled and gilt-dec. green morocco by W. Dearden, Nottingham (with his ticket), a little rubbed at extremities, minor surface damage to rear cover, slim 4to Neate F18. One of fifty copies printed for private circulation. This was the fourteenth ascent of Mont Blanc. Fellows and his companion, William Hawes, adopted a variation of the customary route, i.e. via the Mur de Cote.

(1) ÂŁ1500-2000

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105 Fellows (Charles). A Narrative of an Ascent to the Summit of Mont Blanc, 1st ed., 1827, facsimile reprint, Jarvis Books, Matlock, 1988, hand-col. vign. title, ten hand-col. plts., facsimile certificate and uncol. table of comparative heights, ‘Directions for placing the plates’ slip at rear, orig. linen-backed boards with glassine d.j., slim 4to Limited edition 16/100.

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£70-100

106 [Hawes, Benjamin]. A Narrative of an Ascent to the Summit of Mont Blanc, Made During the Summer of 1827, by Mr. William Hawes and Mr. Charles Fellows, Printed for Benjamin Hawes, Junior,

by Arthur Taylor, 1828, presentation copy, inscribed on title ‘John Calcott Stanley from his friend, W. Hawes’, combined mineralogical table and comparative view of the heights of mountains as frontis., one uncol. litho. plt., trimmed and inlaid to the page (depicting de Saussure’s ascent?), folding facsimile certificate at rear, somewhat browned and spotted, recent quarter calf gilt, slim 4to Neate H55.

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£700-1000

107 Forbes (James David). The Tour of Mont Blanc and of Monte Rosa, Edinburgh, 1855, two folding maps, wood engraved illusts, 16 pp. publishers catalogue to rear, orig. blindstamped cloth gilt, spine darkened and a little fraying to head, 8vo Neate F45. An abridged version of his earlier work “Travels through the Alps of Savoy...”

(1) £100-150

108 Girdlestone (Rev. A.G.). The High Alps without Guides: being a Narrative of Adventures in Switzerland, together with Chapters on the Practicability of Such Mode of Mountaineering, and Suggestions for its Accomplishment, 1st ed., 1870, half title, wood engraved frontis., two folding maps (each wih a short closed tear), orig. blindstamped blue cloth gilt, lower cover near-detached, 8vo Neate G30 (probably less than 100 copies printed. “The Rev. Girdlestone was an enthusiastic but inept climber who had a number of lucky escapes; consequently his book was badly received by his contemporaries”.

(1) £200-300

Lot 107 109 Hudson (Rev. Charles & Kennedy, Edward Shirley). Where there’s a Will there’s a Way: an Ascent of Mont Blanc by a New Route and Without Guides, 2nd ed., 1856, half title, litho. frontis., folding hand coloured map, 24 pp. publisher’s catalogue to rear, a few gatherings shaken, orig. blue blindstamped cloth gilt, some fraying to extrems, 8vo Neate H126. The 2nd editon with two additional accounts of Monte Rosa.

(1) £200-300

Lot 108

110 Hudson (Rev. Charles & Kennedy, Edward Shirley). Where there’s a Will there’s a Way: an Ascent of Mont Blanc by a New Route and Without Guides, 1st ed., 1856, half title, litho. frontis., folding hand coloured map, 24 pp. publisher’s catalogue to rear, orig. blue blindstamped cloth gilt, fraying to spine, 8vo Neate H126: “The Rev. Hudson was the leading amateur mountaineer of the day. He made the first ascent of the highest point of Monte Rosa and the first guideless ascent of Mont Blanc”. £200-300 35 (1)

111 Le Mesurier (W.H.). An Impromptu Ascent of Mont Blanc, 1st ed., 1882, map and seven litho. plates, toning to endpapers, orig. dec. blue cloth, sl. rubbed, 8vo Neate L34. This copy inscribed by the author.

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£300-400

112 Mathews (Charles Edward). The Annals of Mont Blanc. A Monograph, 1st ed., 1898, folding colour map, b & w plates (one loose), a few spots, contemporary presentation inscription to front endpaper, t.e.g., original cloth gilt in bright condition, 8vo Neate M66.

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£200-300

Lot 111

113 Moore (A.W.). The Alps in 1864. A Private Journal, ed. Alex.

B.W. Kennedy, 1st ed., Edinburgh, 1902, portrait frontispiece, maps and b & w illustrations, a few spots, t.e.g., original green cloth, spine a little toned, a few light stains, 8vo Neate M137. “The Alpine Club hold his later unpublished diaries, parts of which were incorporated into the 1902 edition, including his account of the first ascent of the famous Brenva ice-ridge on Mont Blanc.”

(1) £200-300

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114 [Saussure, Horace Benedict de]. Journal d’un Voyage a Chamouni et a la Cime du Mont-Blanc, en juillet et aout 1787, pub.

Lyon, 1926, eight sepia plts., later half calf gilt (with old marbled boards), slim 4to (1)

£80-120

116 Smith (Albert). Mont Blanc, 1st issue, London: Printed for Private Circulation, 1852, inscribed to title “Mr Greening from the author, 1852”, some chips and minor edge fraying, orig. printed paper wrappers restored at inner margins and retained in later blue cloth binding, small 8vo Neate S85: “only a few copies printed for circulation”. Albert Smith (1816-60) was a writer and public lecturer of previously no great merit who, having climbed Mont Blanc on 12 August 1851, opened a show the following March entitled “Mr Albert Smith’s ascent of Mont Blanc” at the Egyptian Hall. The stage resembled a Swiss chalet and featured live St. Bernard dogs as part of the act as well as songs lampooning British tourists. It was a huge success - being performed 2000 times by 1858 including command performances before the Queen and Prince Consort. The show made Smith a rich man and helped to popularize alpine travel, particularly to Chamonix and Mont Blanc.

(1) £500-800

115 Smith (Albert). A Hand-Book of Mr Albert Smith’s Ascent of Mont Blanc: Illustrated by Mr William Beverley, First Represented at the Egyptian Hall, Piccadilly, Monday Evening, March 15, 1852, 5th ed., [1853], 24 pp. including twenty-five uncol. wood-eng. views and several pages of commercial ads at rear, orig. printed wrappers, a little soiled, minor wear to extremities and short closed tear to bottom edge of upper wrapper, oblong 8vo Neate S91.

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£70-100

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Lot 117 117 Smith (Albert). The Story of Mont Blanc, 1st published ed., David Bogue, 1853, hand coloured engraved frontis., wood engraved illusts to text, marble endpapers, contemp. half calf, upper cover detached, 8vo, together with The Story of Mont Blanc, 2nd ed. enlarged, 1854, wood engraved illusts., orig. blindstamped blue cloth, recased preserving orig. backstrip, 8vo, and Mont Blanc...with a Memoir of the Author by Edmund Yates, 1st ed. thus, Ward and Lock, [1860], wood engraved illusts., later cloth gilt, 8vo, plus other related including a copy of Fredrick Heath’s “The Keepsake 1857” containing an essay by Smith on Chamonix, a 1st edition of Smith’s novel “The Struggles and Adventures of Christopher Tadpole” (1848) plus others including modern biographies of Smith Neate S86; S90.

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£200-300

118 [Staley, Finetta]. Autumn Rambles; or, Fireside Recollections of Belgium, The Rhine, The Moselle, German Spas, Switzerland, The Italian Lakes, Mont Blanc, and Paris. Written by a Lady, for Private Circulation in Aid of the Rochdale Relief Fund, E. Wrigley and Son, Rochdale, 1863, 217 pp., a.e.g., orig. navy buckram gilt, fraying to head and foot of spine, 8vo Rare. In chapter six the author describes a stay at Chamonix and a trip taken by her husband to the Mer de Glace with his guide Pierre Coutet.

(1) £150-200

119 Viollet-le-Duc (Eugene Emmanuel). Mont Blanc: A Treatise on its Geodesical and Geological Constitution; its Transformations; and the Ancient and Recent State of its Glaciers...Translated by B. Bucknall, 1st English ed., 1877, wood engraved illusts throughout, orig. decorated blue cloth, a little fraying to head of spine and lower joint, 8vo (1)

Lot 118

£70-100

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120 White (Walter). To Mont Blanc and Back Again, 1st ed., 1854, armorial bookplate of Edward Jervis, 2nd Viscount St Vincent (17671859), contemp. half calf with gilt dec. spine, rubbed and scuffed, 8vo, together with Trench (Rev. Francis), A Walk round Mont Blanc, 1st ed., 1847, lacking rear advert leaf, orig. blindstamped cloth gilt, rubbed with some fraying to extrems, and Browne (George Forrest, Bishop of Bristol), Off the Mill: Some Occasional Papers, 1st US ed., New York, 1895, b & w photo. plates, contains a chapter titled “How we did Mont Blanc” along with accounts of other climbs, orig. cloth gilt, plusThe Bijou; an Annual of Literature and the Arts, pub. Pickering, 1829, engraved title and numerous engraved plates, contains 3 pp. poem titled “Mont Blanc” by L.E.L., a.e.g., orig. moire silk covered boards, fraying to extrems, plus Field (Henry M.), From the Lakes of Killarney to the Golden Horn, 14th ed., New York, 1885, contains chapter “Under the Shadow of Mont Blanc”, orig. buckram gilt, plus four extracted articles related to Mont Blanc from The Cornhill Magazine, The Leisure Hour, Eliza Cook’s Journal and Chamber’s Journal, all recently individually bound, all 8vo (10)

AUSTRALASIA 122 Alack (Frank). Guide Aspiring, 1st ed., Auckland, [1963], b & w photo. illusts, orig. cloth in VG dust-wrapper, (Neate A24), together with McClymont (W.G.), The Exploration of New Zealand, Wellington, 1940, maps and b & w illusts, orig. cloth in chipped dustwrapper, and Graham (Peter), Mountain Guide: an autobiography, 1st ed., 1965, b & w photo. illusts, orig. cloth in dust-wrapper, plus Dingle (Graeme), Two Against the Alps, 1st ed., Christchurch, 1972, b & w photo. illusts, folding map to rear, orig. cloth in chipped dustwrapper, plus other New Zealand interest, all 8vo (11)

£100-150

123 [Beetham, George]. The First Ascent of Mount Ruapehu, New Zealand, and a Holiday Jaunt to Mounts Ruapehu, Tongariro, and Ngauruhoe, Privately Printed, London: Harrison and Sons, 1926, two b & w plates, a little damp-staining to plate margins, later cloth gilt, 8vo

£100-150

Neate B75: “Ascents of volcanoes in North Island”.

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£150-200

124 Bell (James Mackintosh). The Wilds of Maoriland, 1st ed., 1914, colour and b & w plates, two folding maps, library stamp to verso of title and verso of some plates, orig. gilt dec. cloth, a litle fraying to head and foot of spine, 8vo, together with Reid (R.C.), Rambles on the Golden Coast of the South Island of New Zealand, 1st ed., 1886, twenty litho. plates including four coloured plates of ferns, decorated endpapers, orig. pictorial cloth, rubbed and marked, folio, plus Baughan (B.E.), Glimpses of New Zealand Scenery, Auckland, [1922], b & w plates, orig. cloth, slightly rubbed, 8vo, together with others by Baughan including Mt. Egmont (1929), Uncanny Country (1927), Forest and Ice (1912), The Finest Walk in the World (1913), all mixed eds in orig. wrappers, plus Lowth (Alys), Emerald Hours in New Zealand, Christchurch, [1907], b & w photo. plates, orig. cloth, rebacked with new endpapers, 4to, plus other New Zealand mountaineering books (14)

125 Du Faur (Freda). The Conquest of Mount Cook and other Climbs: An Account of Four Seasons’ Mountaineering on the Southern Alps of New Zealand, 1st ed., 1915, inscribed by author to title, lacking frontispiece (Mount Cook), t.e.g., orig. cloth, rubbed to extrems, 8vo, together with a 2nd impression of the same work, printed in 1936, orig. cloth, faded, 8vo, and Hewitt (Rodney and Davidson, Mavis), The Mountains of New Zealand, 1st ed., Wellington, 1954, b & w plates, orig. cloth in chipped dust-wrapper, 4to, plus Graham (J.C.), Ruapehu: Tribute to a Mountain, 1st ed., Wellington, 1963, b & w plates, orig. cloth in dust-wrapper, 4to, plus Temple (Philip), The World at their Feet: The Story of New Zealand Mountaineers in the Great Ranges of the World, 1st ed., Christchurch, 1969, colour and b & w plates, orig. cloth in dustwrapper, 8vo, plus Luping (Datin Margaret, Chin Wen and Richard Dingley, eds), Kinabalu: Summit of Borneo, Sabah Society Monograph, Kota Kinabalu, 1978, colour plates, orig. printed card wrappers, 8vo, and Mitchell (Elyne), Australia’s Alps, 1st ed., Sydney, 1946, b & w plates, orig. cloth in dust-wrapper, 4to, and other mountaineering books relating to New Zealand, Australia and New Guinea

121 Whymper (Edward). Chamonix and the Range of Mont Blanc, 1st ed., John Murray, 1896, three folding maps, numerous b & w illusts, 40 pp. of illustrated trade adverts before and after text, dampstained to lower third throughout entire text, original pictorial printed wrappers, some fraying to spine, together with a 6th edition of Whymper’s “The Valley of Zermatt and The Matterhorn” (1902) in linen covers, both 8vo Neate W60. Rare in the original wrappers.

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£100-150

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£80-120

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£200-300

128 Harper (Arthur P.). Pioneer Work in the Alps of New Zealand: A Record of the First Explorations of the Chief Glaciers and Ranges of the Southern Alps, 1st ed., 1896, folding map, b & w photo. plates, orig. blue cloth gilt, rubbed with partly peeled label to upper cover, together with Memories of Mountains and Men, 1st ed., 1946, b & w photo. illusts., orig. cloth, dust-wrapper worn and repaired, both 8vo Neate H36 & H35 respectively. Greatly revered New Zealander who made several first ascents and did much important surveying in the 1890s. Swiss Alpine Club indelible ink stamps to endpapers and other ownership markings.

(2) £100-150

126 Fitzgerald (E.A.). Climbs in the New Zealand Alps. Being an Account of Travel and Discovery, 1st ed., 1896, 50 b & w plates, folding map contained in rear pocket, frontisp. loosening, t.e.g., original cloth, calf labels to spine (rubbed and chipped), 8vo Neate F36. 1000 copies printed. “Fitzgerald made a number of good climbs after losing the first ascent of Mount Cook to local climbers. Both he and his book were unpopular with New Zealand mountaineers. His light-hearted style of writing also met with critical disapproval.”

(1) £200-300

127 Green (William Spotswood). The High Alps of New Zealand, or a Trip to the Glaciers of the Antipodes with an Ascent of Mount Cook, 1st ed., 1883, wood-engraved frontispiece, folding map, pubs. lists at end, a few spots, endpapers renewed, bookplate, original cloth, spine rubbed and faded, a few stains, 8vo, together with Among the Selkirk Glaciers. Being the Account of a Rough Survey in the Rocky Mountain Regions of British Columbia, 1st ed., 1890, folding map, illustrations, occasional light soiling, original cloth, some dampstains, slight lean, 8vo Neate G51 & G50.

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129 Mannering (George Edward). With Axe and Rope in the New Zealand Alps, 1st ed., 1891, folding map, numerous b & w plates, publisher’s catalogue to rear, orig. cloth gilt, chipped to upper corners, 8vo Neate M40: “Memoirs of a New Zealand mountaineer who was responsible for much exploration and survey work in the Mount Cook area. Co-founder of the New Zealand Alpine Club with A.P. Harper”.

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134 Ross (Malcolm). A Climber in New Zealand, 1st ed., 1914, b & w illusts. from photos, 8 pp. publisher’s ads at rear, orig. cloth gilt in bright condition (inner joints partly cracked), 8vo

130 Moreland (A. Maud). Through South Westland: A Journey to the Haast and Mount Aspiring New Zealand, 2nd ed., [1916], b & w photo. plates, orig. cloth, together with Baughan (Edith Blanche), Studies in New Zealand Scenery, Auckland, [1916], b & w plates, orig. pictorial cloth, sl. rubbed, and Adams (Grace), Jack’s Hut, 1st ed., 1968, b & w plates, orig. cloth in dust-wrapper, and Mahoney (Michael), Harry Ayres: Mountain Guide, 1st ed., Christchurch, 1982, b & w plates, orig. cloth in dust-wrapper, plus Wilson (Jim), Aorangi: The Story of Mount Cook, 1st ed., Christchurch, 1968, colour and b & w plates, orig. cloth in dust-wrapper, plus other mountaineering books relating to New Zealand, all 8vo (26)

Neate R73.

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135 Temple (Philip). Nawok! The New Zealand Expedition to New Guinea’s Highest Mountains, 1st ed., London, 1962, colour frontis., b & w illusts, orig. cloth in slightly rubbed dust-wrapper, 8vo, together with The Sea and The Snow: The South Indian Ocean Expedition to Heard Island, 1st ed., Melbourne, 1966, b & w illusts, orig. cloth in VG dust-wrapper, 8vo, plus The World at their Feet: The Story of New Zealand Mountaineers in the Great Ranges of the World, 1st ed., Christchurch, 1969, b & w illusts, orig. cloth in slightly rubbed dustwrapper, 8vo, plus Mantle of the Skies: The Southern Alps of New Zealand, Christchurch, 1971, colour and b & w plates, orig. cloth in VG dust-wrapper, folio, plus Castles in the Air: Men and Mountains in New Zealand, 1st ed., Dunedin, 1973, colour and b & w plates, orig. cloth, dust-wrapper slightly creased and frayed to edges, 8vo, plus three others by Temple comprising South Island (1975), Ways to the Wilderness (1977), New Zealand Explorers (1985)

£70-100

131 New Zealand Alpine Journal, vols. I & II in one, April 1892May 1896, folding colour map, folding plan, single-page map and two plates, some toning, Manchester Central Library Rucksack Club bookplate (residue from label removal at front), library cloth, a little rubbed, 8vo (1)

£100-150

132 Pascoe (John). Unclimbed New Zealand: Alpine Travel in the Canterbury and Westland Ranges, Southern Alps, 1st ed., London, 1939, colour frontis., three folding maps, b & w photo. plates, orig. cloth gilt, slightly rubbed to extrems, 8vo, together with The Mountains: The Bush & The Sea, 1st ed., Christchurch, 1950, b & w photo. plates, orig. cloth in chipped and frayed dust-wrapper, folio, and Of Unknown New Zealand, 1st ed., Dunedin, 1971, b & w photo. plates, orig. cloth in stained dust-wrapper, folio, and Land Uplifted High, 1st ed., Christchurch, 1952, b & w photo. plates, orig. cloth, spine slightly faded, 8vo, plus Great Days in New Zealand Mountaineering, 1st ed., London, 1958, b & w photo. plates, orig. cloth, 8vo, and two others by John Pascoe Neate P15-P17, P20.

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Neate T13-T17.

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£100-150

136 Turner (Samuel). The Conquest of the New Zealand Alps, 1st ed., 1922, half-tone plates, original blue cloth, spine a little faded, a trifle rubbed, 8vo, together with Siberia. A Record of Travel, Climbing and Exploration, 2nd ed., 1911, portrait frontispiece, b & w plates, occasional spotting, label pasted to front endpaper, original pictorial cloth, edges rubbed, 8vo, plus My Climbing Adventures in Four Continents, 2nd impression, 1913, b & w illustrations, some spotting, previous owner signatures and sticker to front pastedown, original pictorial cloth, spine lettering faded, 8voNeate T70; T72; T71.

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£100-150

£100-150

137 Turner (Samuel). The Conquest of the New Zealand Alps, 1st ed., 1922, b & w illusts. from photos, sketch map at rear, orig. cloth gilt, a trifle rubbed, 8vo

133 Powell (Paul). Men Aspiring, 1st ed., Wellington, 1967, b & w plates, signed by the author to title, orig. cloth in VG dust-wrapper, together with Reed (A.H.), Walks in Maoriland Byways, 1st ed., Wellington, 1958, b & w plates, orig. cloth in chipped dust-wrapper, and Warburton (Lloyd E.), The Steepest Mountain: N.Z. Andes Expedition, 1960, 1st ed., Invercargill, 1964, b & w plates, neat ownership inscription, orig. cloth in VG dust-wrapper, and Reischek (Andreas), Yesterdays in Maoriland: New Zealand in the ‘Eighties, 1952, b & w plates, orig. cloth in VG dust-wrapper, and Harrop (A.J.), Touring in New Zealand, 1st ed., 1935, b & w plates, orig. cloth gilt, a little rubbed and marked, plus Newport (J.N.W.), Footprints Too: Further Glimpses into the History of Nelson Province, 1st ed., Blenheim, 1978, signed by author to title, b & w illusts, orig. cloth in chipped dust-wrapper, plus other mountaineering and touring books related to New Zealand, all 8vo (28)

£70-100

Neate T70.

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£150-200

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£70-100

SKIING 138 Alpine Ski Club Guides. Lunn (Arnold H.M.), The Bernese Oberland, part I, Horace Marshall, c.1911, together with another copy with some library markings, and The Bernese Oberland, part II, King & Hutchings, 1920, plus Swan (H.N.), Valais and Haute Savoie: Morgins and Champery, 1932, folding map at rear, and Hoek (Henry), The Parsenn: A Ski-ing Guide and some Notes, 1933, numerous b & w illusts, all bound in matching light-brown cloth, 8vo Scarce.

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142 Hammond (Charles Edward & C.R.A.). Norge and Others 19081921, G.H. Tyndall, The Minster Press, Ely, 1921, inscribed and signed by author to front endpaper with six lines of verse, numerous b & w photo. illusts with captioned tissue-guards, orig. printed card wrappers, a little rubbed and marked, together with a similar book by the same author titled “1926” (and published in that year), both 8vo A scarce and charming privately printed book containing a selection of verse written from 1894 onwards, with an emphasis on Norway, skiing and winter sports. The text is intersperced with team photographs of Cambridge University football and cricket teams from the 1870s (with all the team members helpfully named), as well as many images of Norwegian and skiing scenes. The particularly scarce “1926” volume contains further verse and skiing photographs.

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£150-200

139 Firsoff (V.A.). Ski Track on the Battlefield, 1st ed., New York, 1943, b & w illusts. from photos, orig. cloth in sl. soiled d.j. (d.j. with sl. loss at head of spine), together with Meredith (Brian), Escape on Skis, [1938], b & w illusts. from photos, map endpapers, orig. cloth in frayed d.j., plus Watson (Sir Norman and King, Edward J.), Round Mystery Mountain. A Ski Adventure, 1st ed., 1935, col. frontis., b & w illusts. from photos, three sketch maps, orig. cloth in sl. soiled and frayed d.j., and Colonel Bilgeri’s Handbook on Mountain Ski-ing, Translated, with Notes, by Major Harold Holme, 1st ed., 1929, port. frontis., b & w illusts. from photos, diags. to text, orig. cloth in sl. frayed and chipped d.j., and one other, all 8vo (5)

143 Jay (John). Skiing the Americas, 1st ed., New York, 1947, numerous b & w illusts. from photos, map endpapers, orig. cloth in frayed and torn d.j., 8vo, together with Bowen (Ezra), The Book of American Skiing, 1st ed., Philadelphia & New York, 1963, numerous col. and b & w illusts. from photos, orig. two-tone cloth in sl. frayed d.j., folio, plus Burhenne (Hans Joachim), Sierra Spring Ski-Touring.

Description of One-Day Tours to 28 Peaks, with Walt and Betsy, Norm, Dick and Mark, 1st ed., San Francisco, 1971, signed on halftitle by the author, numerous col. and b & w illusts. from photos, map endpapers (old sellotape marks to front f.e.p.), orig. linenbacked glazed pict. boards, square 4to, plus Baldwin (Henry Ives), The Skiing Life, privately printed, New Hampshire, 1989, signed and titled by the author, b & w illusts., orig. printed wrappers, 8vo, and Hazard (Joseph T.), Pacific Crest Trails from Alaska to Cape Horn, enlarged revised ed., Seattle, [1948], b & w illusts. from photos, orig. cloth in d.j., 8vo, and others of American skiing interest

£100-150

140 Firsoff (V.A.). The Cairngorms on Foot and Ski, 1st ed., 1949, port. frontis., b & w illusts. from photos by the author, orig. cloth in sl. frayed and chipped d.j. (Neate F32), together with On Ski in the Cairngorms, by V.A. Firsoff, 1st ed., Edinburgh & London, 1965, b & w illusts. from photos, sketch maps, folding panorama at rear, orig. cloth in sl. frayed d.j., plus Huber (Eddie and Rogers, Norman), The Complete Ski Manual. How to Begin, How to Improve, How to Excel, 1st ed., 1949, b & w illusts. from photos, illusts. and diags. to text, orig. cloth in sl. frayed and chipped d.j., plus Fedden (Robin), Alpine Ski Tour. An Account of the High Level Route, 1st ed., Putnam, 1956, b & w illusts. from photos, folding route map, orig. cloth in d.j., and Ski-ing in the Alps, by Robin Fedden, in Collaboration with Peter Waddell, 1st ed., 1958, b & w illusts. from photos, orig. cloth in price-clipped d.j., and others, all in d.j., 8vo & 4to (13)

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144 Lunn (Arnold). The Complete Ski-Runner, 1st ed., 1930, b & w illusts. from photos, diags. to text, orig. cloth in frayed and torn d.j. (with some loss), together with The Story of Ski-ing, New Alpine Library series, 1952, orig. cloth in frayed and chipped d.j., plus Skiing, 1st ed., 1913, b & w illusts. from photos, some minor scattered spotting, orig. cloth gilt, faded on spine and frayed at head, all 8vo, and Cross-Country Ski-ing, 1st ed., 1920, Alpine Ski-ing at all Heights and Seasons, 1st ed., 1921, 2nd ed., revised, 1926, 3rd ed., revised, 1948, Ski-ing for Beginners, 2nd ed., revised, 1926, Ski-ing in a Fortnight, 1st ed., 1933, all orig. cloth, a little rubbed and faded, minor wear to extremities (Alpine Ski-ing and Ski-ing in a Fortnight both in sl. frayed d.j.), small 8vo, and others by Arnold Lunn

£100-150

141 Fulton (J.H.W.). With Ski in Norway & Lapland, Introduction

by Herbert Fowler, 1st ed., 1911, numerous b & w illusts. from photos by the author and others, map endpapers, orig. cloth gilt, a little rubbed on spine, together with Spender (A. Edmund), Two Winters in Norway. Being an Account of Two Holidays Spent on Snow-Shoes, and in Sleigh-Driving, and Including an Expedition to the Lapps, 1st ed., 1902, b & w illusts. from photos, some minor scattered spotting, orig. cloth gilt, rubbed and a little worn on spine, 8vo, plus Cadby (Will and Carine), Switzerland in Winter (Discursive Information for Visitors), 1st ed., 1914, author’s presentation copy to Sir Henry Robertson, inscribed on flyleaf, b & w illusts. from photos, some spotting, orig. cloth gilt, 8vo, and Ice Sports, Isthmian Library series, edited D. Fletcher Robinson, 1901, b & w illusts. from photos, folding map at rear, orig. gilt-dec. cloth, a little rubbed (includes Tobogganing, Ski-ing, Ice-yachting, etc.), all 8vo, plus Winter Sports Annual, 1912-13, b & w illusts. from photos, folding maps, ads both front and rear (lacks both f.e.p. and r.e.p.), orig. cloth lettered in black, and Winter Sports, Cook’s Handbook, 1929-30 & 1936-7, numerous b & w illusts. from photos, ads both front and rear, orig. pict. wrappers, all small 8vo, and others of skiing interest (27)

£100-150

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£100-150

145 Lunn (Arnold). A History of Ski-ing, 1st ed., Oxford University Press, 1927, numerous b & w illusts, orig. cloth gilt, slightly faded to spine, 8vo Neate L71: “Approximately 80 pages are devoted to the history of winter mountaineering, both on foot and ski”.

(1) £70-100

146 Mitchell (Harold). Downhill Ski-Racing, 1st ed., 1931, b & w illusts. from photos, orig. cloth in sl. chipped d.j., together with Lang (Otto), Downhill Skiing, 1st ed., 1937, b & w illusts. from photos, pict. endpapers, orig. cloth in sl. soiled and chipped d.j., plus Heinrich (Fritz), Manual for Ski-Babies, 1st ed., 1935, b & w illusts. from photos, diags. to text, orig. cloth in sl. soiled and chipped d.j., all 8vo, and others of skiing interest, all 1930s publications

£150-200

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£150-200

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147 Palmedo (Roland, editor). Ski-ing. The International Sport, New York: Derrydale Press, 1937, col. plts., numerous b & w illusts. from photos, t.e.g., remainder rough-trimmed, orig. gilt-dec. cloth, a little rubbed on spine, 4to Regular edition limited to 950 copies.

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£300-500

148 Pocock (Noel, illust.). Below Zero. A Travesty of Winter Sport.

With Verses Adapted to the Occasion, by A.E. Johnson, [1911], twelve tipped-in col. plts., pict. endpapers, orig. pict. cloth, a trifle rubbed, 4to, together with Dennys (Joyce and ‘Evoe’), A Winter Sports Alphabet, 1926, twenty-six full-page illusts. printed mainly in yellow and black, orig. linen-backed pict. boards, minor wear to extremities, slim 8vo, plus Arkell (Reginald), Winter Sportings, 1st ed., 1929, col. and b & w illusts. to text by Lewis Baumer, orig. green cloth, a little rubbed, square 4to (3)

£80-120

149 Public Schools Alpine Sports Club. Year Books, 1911, 1912, 1914, 1926, 1927 & 1928, b & w photo. illusts, pictorial trade adverts, orig. red cloth gilt, slightly faded to spines, 8vo

Lot 149

First printed as the Public Schools Winter Year Book in 1907, being renamed from 1910. The club was established by Arnold Lunn, who had conceived downhill ski-ing as a sport “to secure the presence at one or more Swiss resorts of a congenial society of people interested in Alpine sports”.

Membership was only open to those who had attended a public school or university, held an Army or Navy commission, or who were the offspring thereof. The operation later evolved into Lunn Poly.

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151 Roget (F.F.). Ski-Runs in the High Alps, 1st ed., 1913, colour frontis., 24 b & w plates, 6 folding maps, t.e.g., orig. gilt dec. cloth, stain at foot of spine, 8vo, together with Hints on Alpine Sports, by F.F. Roget, with a Supplement on Mountaineering and Winter Sports Clothing, pub.

Burberrys, [1911], twelve full-page b & w illusts., orig. linen-backed prints boards, a little rubbed and some minor soiling, slim 8vo

150 Richardson (E.C., editor). Ski-Running, by D.M.M. Crichton Somerville, W.R. Rickmers, and E.C. Richardson, 2nd ed., 2nd imp., 1907, b & w illusts. from photos, diags. to text, commercial ads at front and rear (lacks f.e.p.), orig. pict. cloth, somewhat soiled and worn on spine, together with The Ski-Runner, by E.C. Richardson, 1st ed., [1909], numerous illusts. from photos, some printed in blue tint, 16 pp. commercial ads at rear, orig. light blue pict. cloth, a little rubbed and some minor soiling, with a 3rd ed. of the same work, 1924, orig. olive green cloth, lettered and blocked in black, rubbed and minor wear to head and foot of spine (ex-lib. classification number partly erased at foot of spine), plus Caulfeild (Vivian), How to Ski and How Not To, 3rd ed., revised, 1913, b & w illusts. from photos, diags. to text, orig. pict. cloth, a little rubbed, plus Furse (Katherine), Ski-Running, 1st ed., 1924, single-page map and four b & w illusts. from photos (correct as list), orig. boards in torn and repaired d.j. (with some loss), 8vo, and Ski-ing Turns, 2nd ed., revised, April, 1924, diags. to text and four (of 8) instructional cards contained in rear pocket, orig. pict. cloth, rubbed on spine, with a third impression of the same work, December, 1926, with a full complement of eight cards contained in rear pocket, orig. pict. cloth in frayed and chipped d.j., and two others related, all 8vo (8)

Neate R65 (first item): “The principal book in English by a Swiss academic who was outstanding among the pioneers of ski-mountaineering”.

(2) £100-150

152 Syers (Edgar and Madge, editors). The Book of Winter Sports, 1st ed., 1908, b & w illusts. from photos, diags. and drawings to text, orig. cloth gilt, faded and some wear to spine, 8vo (includes a chapter on ski-ing, by E. Wroughton), together with Benson (E.F.), Winter Sports in Switzerland, 1913, twelve mounted col. plts. after watercolours by C. Fleming Williams, numerous b & w illusts. from photographs by Mrs Aubrey Le Blond, some scattered spotting, recent cloth, 4to, plus Smythe (F.S.), Climbs and Ski Runs.

Mountaineering and Ski-ing in the Alps, Great Britain and Corsica, with a Foreword by Geoffrey Winthrop Young, reprinted, August, 1933, b & w illusts. from photos, some minor scattered spotting, orig. cloth, rubbed, 8vo, and other miscellaneous books of skiing interest, including Strand Magazine, vol. 8, July-December, 1894, containing a five-page article by Arthur Conan Doyle entitled ‘An Alpine Pass on Ski’ with b & w illusts. from photos showing Dr. Conan Doyle and his wife on skis, plus a bound volume of The Saturday Magazine, January-December 1836, numerous woodengs., including a half-page illustration entitled ‘The Skating-Soldiers of Norway’ etc., etc.

£150-200

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£150-200

153 Seth-Smith (Michael). The Cresta Run. History of the St. Moritz Tobogganing Club, Foreword by H.R.H. The Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, 1976, numerous col. and b & w illusts. from photos, orig. cloth in d.j., 4to, (limited edition 1018/2000, signed by the author and Roger Gibbs, President of the St Moritz Tobogganing Club), together with Bradley (David, Miller, Ralph and Merrill, Allison), Expert Ski-ing, 1st ed., 1960, numerous b & w illusts. from photos, orig. cloth in sl. frayed d.j., folio, plus Micoleau (Tyler), Power Skiing Illustrated. Principles of the Dynamic Technique, 1st ed., 1950, numerous illusts. to text, orig. cloth in sl. torn d.j., slim 4to, and Freund (Francesco and Campiotti, Fulvio), The New Skier, trans. James Cleugh, 1960, numerous b & w illusts. from photos, including six large folding plts. at rear, orig. cloth in frayed and chipped d.j., 8vo, and Harding (John), Pyrenean High Routes. A Ski Mountaineering Odyssey, 1st ed., 2000, signed on title by the author, col. and b & w illusts. from photos, orig. cloth in d.j., 8vo, VG, and other miscellaneous books of skiing interest, mostly recent publications, both hardback and softback (3 shelves)

£150-250

154 Lloyd (Janis M.). Skiing into History 1924-1984, Ski Club of Victoria, 1986, numerous b & w illusts. from photos, orig. cloth in d.j., 4to, together with Beatty (Bill), The White Roof of Australia, 1st ed., 1958, b & w illusts. from photos, orig. cloth in torn d.j., slim 4to, plus Bowen (Ezra), The Book of American Skiing, Philadelphia & New York, 1963, numerous col. and b & w illusts. from photos, orig. two-tone cloth in sl. frayed d.j., folio, and Jay (John), Skiing the Americas, New York, 1947, b & w illusts. from photos, map endpapers, orig. cloth in frayed and torn d.j., 8vo, and Clifford (Harvey), Rhythm on Skis, 1st ed., Wellington, NZ, 1953, 47 pp., b & w illusts. from photos, orig. printed boards in frayed and torn d.j., slim 8vo, and other miscellaneous books of skiing interest, mostly recent publications, both hardback and softback

Lot 151

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£150-250

155 Huber (Eddie and Rogers, Norman). The Complete Ski Manual. How to Begin, How to Improve, How to Excel, 1st ed., 1949, b & w illusts. from photos, orig. cloth in frayed and repaired d.j., 8vo, together with Riddell (James), The Ski Runs of Switzerland, Foreword by Sir Arnold Lunn, 1st ed., 1957, b & w illusts. from photos, map endpapers, orig. cloth in sl. frayed d.j., 8vo, plus The New National Austrian Ski System, Issued by the Austrian Association of Professional Ski Teachers, trans. Roland Palmedo, 1974, numerous b & w illusts. from photos, orig. boards in priceclipped d.j., slim 4to, and other miscellaneous books of skiing interest, mostly recent publications, both softback and hardback (3 shelves)

£150-250

156* Ice Picks. An Austrian ice/mountaineering climbing pick axe

by Fulpmes, circa 1920, the oak haft with steel cup and spike, with steel head stamped ‘Werkgen Fulpmes’ additionally stamped ‘Garantie’, approx. 100cm (39.5 ins) overall, together with a similar axe by Stubai Mod Wallner circa 1950, with oak haft and steel cup and spike, the steel head stamped accordingly ‘Made in Austria’, with brown leather covers, 75cm (29.5 ins) overall (2)

£80-120

157* Skiing Bookends. A pair of Art Deco patinated spelter bookends by Maurice Frecourt, circa 1930, modelled as a skier and his companion, impressed ‘FRECOURT’, mounted on bases, on white marble, 18 x 11.5cm (7 x 4.5 ins), together with a single spelter figure of a skier, circa 1930, 14cm (5.5 ins), on later mahogany base Maurice Frecourt was born in Paris 1890 and was a pupil of Valton and Boucher. He exhibited at “le Salon des Artistes Francais” from 1920.

(2) £100-150

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Lot 157

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Lot 158

160* Skis. A pair of early 20th-century light pine skis designed

by Marius Eriksen, each 208 cm (81.75 ins) stamped at fore-end 'Marius Eriksen Patents' additionally stamped '210 3781', the steel boot bracket stamped 'Thorleif Haugs Patent Sinning Made in Norway' the composite foot plate stamped 'Marius-Ski', with a pair of bamboo ski poles, each with steel spike and baboo star, stitched leather grips with loops, 139 cm (54.75 ins) overall Lots 158, 159 & 160 158* Skis. A rare, possibly unique pair of English oak skis, early 1900s, each approx. 209 cm (82 ins) overall, mounted with steel boot bracket and leather strap and buckle These skis were commissioned for his wife, by Herbert Harrison of Richmond, North Yorkshire. The unique design introduces a piece of wood as an upright right angle to the main ski, thus preserving the ski tip more effectively. The skis were used in West Fields, the open hillside above and to the west of Richmond.

(2) £100-150

159* Skis. A pair of Norwegian stained oak skis, circa 1900, each approx.

226 cm (89 ins), stamped at fore-end 'A/S NORGE-S OSLO', mounted with steel boot bracket and leather strap with spring catches, each applied with rectangular retailer's plate for 'Sporthaus Hannes Schneider St. Anton Arlberg', additionally stamped '4683' (2)

£70-100

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Marius Eriksen (1922-2009) was a Norwegian skier, fighter pilot, model and actor. Born in Oslo, he served with the RAF during WWII, and is credited with nine kills, making him one of Norway's top fighter aces.

He was shot down in 1943 and taken to Stalag Luft III POW Camp, where he remained until Liberation in 1945. After the war he became the Norwegian Alpine skiing champion in both 1947 and 1948. Thorleif Haug (1894-1934) was considered the world's best skier in the 1920s, winning three gold medals in his first Winter Olympic Games.

(4) £70-100

161* Skis. A pair of French 1960/70s aluminium skis by Dynamic Rd’, each 175cm (68.75 ins) overall, with adjustable boot bracket, each blue and red various markings including ‘Rand-HP, Made in France’, with a pair of brown leather boots and Alpin Skifelle straps (4)

£30-50

PICTURES & PRINTS 163* Baxter (George). The Glacier du Taconnay, Mur de la Côte, Leaving the Grand Mulets [and] The Summit, c.1856, four ‘Baxter process’ colour prints showing the ascent of Mont Blanc, a little faded, each approx. 95 x 140 mm, framed and glazed as a set within a four aperture mount, together with another six images from the series including one of the summit, two of the Taconnay glacier and three of the Mur de la Cote, all framed and glazed, various condition C.T.Courtney-Lewis. George Baxter Colour Printer. His Life and Work, no.336.

(7) £100-150

162* Alpine watercolours. View of the Alps, possibly from Lake Maggiore, later 19th-c. watercolour on paper, heightened with bodycolour, 23 x 33.5 cm (9 x 13.25 ins), modern gilt frame, glazed, together with Linnell (A., late 19th/early 20th c.), View of the Alps in Summer, 1890, watercolour, signed and dated lower left, 18.5 x 28.5 cm (7.25 x 11.25 ins), framed and glazed, plus Shortt (P.M., late 19th/early 20th c.), Landscape with mountain range, late 19th-c. watercolour, signed lower right, 29.5 x 24 cm (11.5 x 9.5 ins), framed and glazed, and a group of four later 19th-c. watercolour views of Alpine scenery, unsigned, probably taken from an album, each approx.

17 x 24 cm (6.75 x 9.5 ins), gilt frames, glazed, plus a related album of watercolour sketches and one other similar framed watercolour (9)

164* Brett (Harris, 20th c.). View of a mountainous coastline (possibly Scotland) in summer, gouache on paper, signed lower left, 24.5 x 39.5 cm (9.5 x 15.5 ins), gilt frame, glazed, together with Longley (A. Ross), Langdale Pikes, Cumbria, watercolour, signed lower right, 30.5 x 37 cm (12 x 14.5 ins), framed and glazed, together with another smaller watercolour by the same artist of Friar's Crag, Derwentwater, Lake District, inscribed with title lower left, 17 x 24.5 cm (6.75 x 9.5 ins), framed and glazed

£100-150

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£70-100

Lot 163 165* Collingwood (William Gershom, 1854-1932). Ardtornish Castle, Sound of Mull, Scotland, watercolour, signed, 12.5 x 25cm, contemporary gilt frame, together with a revised edition copy of Collingwood’s “The Lake Counties” (1933) containing numerous colour plates and b & w illusts, bound in orig. cloth, 4to (2)

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£70-100

168* Hunt (Andrew, 1790-1861). Tryfan in Winter, North Wales, pencil with watercolour, signature obscured by frame, 17 x 30cm, framed and glazed Andrew Hunt lived in Liverpool, and was the father of Alfred William Hunt (1830-1896) and Maria Hunt (Exh. 1856 - 1866). He is represented in the Walker Art Gallery Liverpool.

(1) £70-100

166* Compton (Edward Theodore, 1849-1921). A pair of Victorian Alpine printed crystoleum pictures depicting Geraer Hutte and Rosengarten von St. Cyprian in the Tyrolean Alps, with mother-ofpearl highlights, each 18 x 28cm, period oak frames with small metal plaques, plus related booklet (3)

£70-100

167* Daniell (William, 1769-1837). Five hand coloured aquatints of views in the Scottish Western Isles, pub. 1817-1819, image dimensions of each 20.5 x 28cm, including “Little Brieshmeal near Talisker, Skye”, “Arros Castle, Isle of Mull”, “Staffa near Fingals Cave”, “Part of the Isle of Rum”, “Part of the Northern Face of one of the Shiant Isles”, all in matching period Hogarth-style frames (5)

169* Alpine watercolours. Alpine landscape with Grindelwald glacier, mid 19th-c. watercolour, heightened with bodycolour, unsigned, 18.5 x 24.5 cm (7.25 x 9.5 ins), framed & glazed, together with View of Lake Lucerne with mountains beyond in summertime, c. 1870, watercolour, heightened with bodycolour, unsigned, 14 x 20.5 cm (5.5 x 8 ins), framed and glazed, plus another mid- or later 19th c. watercolour view of an Alpine scene with shepherd and goats by a river with mountains beyond, heightened with bodycolour, unsigned, 18 x 23 cm (7 x 9 ins), contemp. maplewood veneer frame, and a watercolour view of cottages by a river with mountains beyond, signed H. Faith and dated 1848 lower right, 20 x 32 cm (8 x 12.5 ins), framed and glazed

£70-100

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£100-150

172* Powell (Alfred H., fl. 1890-c.1922). Aberglaslyn Pass, looking toward Snowdon, watercolour, signed, 16.5 x 24.5cm, framed & glazed

170* Phizacklea (Al, 20th c.). Original pen and ink artwork for the double-page front endpapers of Jones & Milburn's 'Cumbria Rock. 100 Years of Climbing in the Lake District', pub. 1988, image approx. 30 x 42 cm, signed and dated March 88 to lower right, gilt frame, glazed

Painter of landscapes and architectural subjects, also known as a pottery painter. Exhibited at the RA from 1890.

(1) £100-150

With a limited edition copy of the book, 94/250, signed by Trevor Jones and Geoff Milburn.

(2) £100-150

173* Redgrave (James Fraser, 1823-1894). Dent du Morcles, from Bex, Switzerland, watercolour, inscribed by artist to verso and dated [18]41, 22.5 x 38.5cm, period polished bird’s eye maplewood frame (1)

171* Photographs. Gimmer Crag, Langdale, [and] Terrace Wall, Tryfan, by Douglas Milner, c. 1930s, a pair of vintage silver gelatin photographs, each approx. 25 x 29 cm, framed and glazed, together with a montage of eight b & w photographs by Byrom & Milner of rock climbers Twentyman, Milner, Zassman and Byrom, c. 1950s(?), each approx. 17 x 11 cm, mounted in single frame, glazed, with printed caption verso, plus sixteen vintage and later b & w photographs of rock climbing in the Lake District, various sizes, all framed and glazed (19)

£200-300

174* Rowbotham (Thomas Charles Leeson, 1823-1875). Grundelwald, pub. M. & N. Haahart, c. 1865, fine large chromolithograph, 43.5 x 63.5cm (17.25 x 25 ins) mount aperture, contemp. gilt frame, glazed, together with another chromolithograph Alpine view, 43.5 x 54cm (17 x 25 ins), gilt frame, glazed

£200-300

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£150-200

175* Stiles (F., 19th century). Alpine landscape, original watercolour heightened with bodycolour, signed and dated 1852, 28 x 39.5cm, framed & glazed (1)

£100-150

176* Switzerland. View of an Alpine ravine with figures in the foreground, and Jungfrau in the distance, c. 1840s, hand-coloured lithograph, heightened with bodycolour, 52.5 x 39cm (20.75 x 15.25 ins) mount aperture, framed and glazed (1)

£70-100

177* West (Edgar E., active 1857-1881). Norwegian Fjord, watercolour & gouache, signed, 41 x 30cm, framed & glazed Lived in London and painted in Devon, Cornwall, Normandy and Norway among other places. He exhibited widely including The Royal Academy, Royal Society of Artists and the Walker Art Gallery.

(1) £100-150

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MARY FRANCES WICKSTEED (1836/7-1906)

Mary Frances Wicksteed was a governess and companion to three generations of the Philips and Trevelyan families. She was originally employed by Robert Needham Philips (1815-1890), MP for Bury, Lancashire, for twenty-two years. His home was The Park, Prestwich, and it was there that Mary Wicksteed began her association with the family when she became governess to the three daughters of Philips (by two short-lived marriages) in the 1860s. Wicksteed was close to the youngest, Anna Maria (1857-1946), sole daughter of the second marriage, but also to Margaret and, the eldest, Caroline (died 1928), who was to marry George Otto Trevelyan in 1869. Trevelyan (1838-1928) was the nephew of the historian Thomas Babington Macaulay, and it was Trevelyan who helped Philips to become an MP, later becoming a Liberal MP himself also.

The Trevelyan family home was at Wallington, Northumberland, and it was there that George and Caroline had three children: Sir Charles Philips (1870-1958), politician and historian; Robert Calverley (1872-1951), poet; and George Macaulay (1876-1962), historian. The eldest, Charles, inherited the baronetcy from his father on his death in 1928. Meanwhile Mary Wicksteed became more closely involved with the extended Philips-Trevelyan families as the years rolled on, being first a companion to Robert Philips until his death in 1890, and then companion to Anna Maria at The Park until her own death in 1906. Wicksteed produced these watercolours it seems while on several Grand Tour holidays and climbing excursions with George and Caroline Trevelyan, acting no doubt as companion and artistic pupil for the talented watercolourist Caroline.

The climbing interest of the Trevelyan family is well documented. George Otto Trevelyan was a friend of Sir George Young, with whom he went to the Eastern Alps while at Trinity College, Cambridge (1857-61). Their sons Geoffrey Winthrop Young (1876-1958) climber, poet and educator, and George Macaulay Trevelyan replicated their fathers’ alpine adventure in 1897. Both brothers Charles and George Trevelyan rock-climbed with Winthrop Young in Northumberland and Wales.

The albums from which all these watercolours have been extracted were discovered at Wallington House. The remains of one album (now included here with the third lot) includes a series of matchbox-size watercolour vignettes by Wicksteed of the infant "Charlie", indicative of her ongoing involvement as governess to the young generation of Trevelyans. Though unsigned, the albums include several specimens of Wicksteed’s autograph and the captions throughout are clearly in her hand.

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178* Italy and the Alps. A group of approx.

100 original watercolours by Mary Frances Wicksteed, relating to tours in Italy and the Alps, Austria and Switzerland in 1875, 1876, 1880 & 1887, mostly rural scenes with mountainous backdrops, subjects include Lakes Lugano, Maggiore, Como, plus Vesuvius, Ober Alp See, Matterhorn, Siplugen Pass, Rhone Glacier, Bologna, views around Rome, Rissel Alp, Leukmanier Pass, Val Bregaglia, Zermatt, Thusis, etc., approx. 25 x 18cm and smaller, the majority captioned in pen or pencil and dated to mounts beneath in the artist’s holograph, but all unsigned, plus a further twenty small watercolour sketches by Wicksteed of figures and two of the dog Tina which accompanied the group on the journey in August 1887, the collection now contained in forty-six non-matching frames, glazed (46)

Lot 178 Also see illustrations on inside front cover of this catalogue

£700-1000

179* Scotland. A group of thirty-seven original watercolour sketches by Mary Frances Wicksteed, relating to tours in Scotland in 1871 & 1875, mostly rural scenes with mountainous backdrops but also including buildings and ruins, all captioned in pencil and mostly dated to mounts, subjects include Glen Cluny, Glencoe, Loch Leven, Loch Awe, view above Pitlochrie, Pass of Killicrankie, Two of the Three Sisters (Glencoe), Loch Ramoch, Loch Ness, etc., the largest 18 x 24cm but mostly smaller and many postcard size or smaller, all unsigned, the collection arranged in fifteen non-matching modern frames, glazed (15)

£300-500

180* Wales. A group of fifteen original watercolour sketches by Mary Frances Wicksteed, August/September 1876, all rural views and mostly with mountainous scenery, captioned and dated in pencil to album mounts beneath, locations include Menai Straits, Pass of Llanberris, Carnedd Llewellyn, etc., approx. 15 x 25cm and smaller, all unsigned, contained in twelve non-matching modern frames, glazed, together with the remains of the album from which the whole collection of watercolours were removed, but still including one sheet of sixteen small watercolour vignettes of the infant Charles “Charlie” Philips Trevleyan, August 1871 and August 1872 (see introduction), plus nineteen further Grand Tour watercolour views by Wicksteed, various sizes and locations (14)

Lot 180

£200-300

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EPHEMERA

Lot 181

181* Abraham (George Perry, 1844-1923). A group of 138 vintage platinum prints, early 20th c., including approx. eighty-eight photographs of the mountains of the Isle of Skye and fifty photographs of North Wales, of these approximately 100 with embossed stamp or verso wet stamp credit ‘G.P. Abraham, Photo, Keswick, Copyright’, the majority numbered in the negative and all with old pencil captions to versos, a minority of images showing climbers (men and women) or signs of habitation, all approx. 16 x 20cm or the reverse, a few minor spots but generally VG George Perry Abraham established a successful photographic business in Keswick during the late nineteenth century, and was joined by his sons George Dixon and Ashley Perry Abraham. The trio often climbed together and produced the first photographs of rock climbers in action. They published ‘Rock Climbing in North Wales’ in 1906 and ‘Rock Climbing in Skye’ in 1908. ‘If the books were powerfully influential, the Abraham photographs were even more so. They were unrivalled for their time, and can still stand comparison with the best black and white work of later climber photographs’ (A. Hankinson, Camera on the Crag, London, 1975, p. 23).

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184 Expedition Reports. The University of Manchester Shira Plateau Expedition, Mt. Kilimanjaro, Tanzania, 1986, b & w illusts, printed wrappers, comb bound, together with British Caucasus Expedition 1986, b & w illusts, and Thalay Sagar Expedition 1992, colour photo. illusts, comb bound, plus many other expedition reports dated 1986-1991, including British Bhrigupath Expedition 1991, British Karakorum Traverse 1991, University of Sheffield Oksfjordjokulen Expedition 1986, etc., various sizes, mostly A4 (23)

£70-100

185 Expedition Reports. Report on the Royal Naval East Greenland Expedition 1966, b & w photo. illusts, cloth-backed printed wrappers (Neate T21), together with Army East Greenland Expdition 1968, b & w illusts, printed wrappers, comb bound (Neate A16), and Joint Services Expedition North Perry Land 1969, b & w plates and illusts, orig. printed wrappers, plus Joint Services Expedition to Brabant Island, Antarctica, December 1983-April 1985, signed by Chris Furse, b & w illusts and maps, colour printed wrappers, spiral bound, and the Southern Ocean Mountaineering Expedition 1990, colour photo. illusts, printed wrappers, plus other North America and Greenland expedition reports dated 1970-1991 including 1970 Cambridge Staunings Expedition, 1971 Report of the British Army West Greenland Expedition, 1972 British Army Axel Heiberg Expedition, 1986 Salford University Cape Farewell Expedition, 1988 Joints Services Expedition to Borup Fiord, 1989 British Mount Foraker Expedition (signed by Roy Ruddle), etc., various sizes, mostly A4 (31)

186 Expedition Reports. Roraima: Report of the 1971 British Expedition to Mount Roraima in Guyana, South America, b & w illusts, orig. printed wrappers, together with Report of the 1970 Expedition to the Nevado del Huila, Central Andean Cordillera, Colombia, July 1970, b & w illusts, comb bound (Neate R37), plus The Cambridge Andean Expedition 1957, b & w illusts, orig. printed wrappers, 8vo, and other South American expedition reports dated 1974-1991 including Patagonia handbook by Ben Campbell-Kelly 1975 (Neate C08), Patagona ‘85, cambridge High Andes ‘86, 1990 Tierra del Fuego Expedition, etc., one report signed by Mark Lowe, various sizes but mostly A4

182 Blodig (Dr. Karl). Blodig’s Alpine Calendar, pub. Blackwell’s, Oxford, 1933-37, together five unused orig. calendars, each with numerous fine b & w illusts. from photos and a few colour plts., orig. colour-printed front wrapper, some torn with loss, (24 x 19cm) (5)

£70-100

£50-80

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£70-100

187 Expedition Reports. The British Shani Expedition 1989, b & w illusts, together with Biafo Karakoram Expedition 1989, b & w illusts, and Newcastle Polytechnic: Nutritional and Calorific Intake on a High Altitude Expedition 1990, b & w diagrams, comb bound, plus other Himalayan and Asian expedition reports dated 1989-1991 including Makalu, Everest, Tilicho, Hushe Valley, etc., mostly A4 format (31)

£70-100

188 Expedition Reports. Aldenham School Expedition ‘89 to the Chinese Pamirs July-September 1989, colour photo. plates, printed wrappers, together with Expedition to Tien Shan China 1988, b & w illusts and maps, and Saga Magazine Himalayan Expedition 1989, colour photo. illusts, plus other Himalayan expedition reports from 1987-1989, mostly A4 format

183* British Nuptse Himalayan Expedition 1961. Postcard signed in ink by nine members of the expedition team, including Chris Bonington, Joe Walmsley, Trevor Jones, Les Brown, Dennis Davis, J.H. Swallow and three others unidentified (possibly sherpas), the postcard depicting a black & white photograph of Everest by Alfred Gregory, bearing three Nepalese Everest stamps and postmarks, 4 1/2 x 6 inches (11.5 x 15.3cm)

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Nuptse, a technically challenging climb, lies just 2 km WSW of Everest on the southern border of the Western Cwm. It was first climbed on this expedition by Dennis Davis and Sherpa Tashi on 16 May 1961, the other members summiting the following day. The postcard is addressed to Mrs M. Walmsley.

(1) £50-80

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£70-100

189 Expedition Reports. British-Indian Police Himalayan Expedition 1986, colour photo. illusts, printed wrappers, together with Exercise Saser Venture 1987, b & w illusts, printed wrappers, plus St. Mary’s Hospital Mountaineering Club: Dr Pete Thornton Memorial Expedition Lobsang Spire Pakistan 1986, b & w diagrams and maps, printed wrappers, plus other similar Himalayan expedition reports from 1986-1987 including Lhotse, Gasherbrums, Karakorum, etc., mostly A4 format (20)

£70-100

190 Expedition Reports. The Royal Services and Royal Nepalese Army Expedition to Mount Kirat Chuli 1985, b & w photo. illusts, with preliminary report loosely inserted, comb bound, together with The British Gasherbrun IV Expedition 1986, summary report loosely inserted, colour printed wrappers, comb bound, and 1st The Queen’s Dragoon Guards Expedition to Chogolungma 1986, b & w photo. plates, loosely inserted summary report, orig. printed wrappers, comb bound, plus other British Himalayan expedition reports dated 1984-1986 including Cho Oyu, Karakoram, Kishtwar, Chogolungma, etc., mostly A4 or foolscap (15)

£70-100

191 Expedition Reports. Oxford Expedition to the Hindu Kush 1977, unbound as issued (Neate O21), together with Thui II: The North London Kindu Kush Expedition 1978, orig. printed wrappers (Neate N27), and Baruntse Expedition 80/81 Midwinter, colour and b & w photo. plates, orig. printed wrappers, plus other expedition reports comprising Phabrang 80 Report: Himalayan Expedition by the Royal Navy & Royal Marines Mountaineering Club (together with separate smaller preliminary report), The British Mount Kongur Expedition to China (preliminary report), Agyasol ‘81: Report of the Oxford University Mountaineering Club Kishtwar Himalayan Expedition 1981, The China 1982 British Sunyatsen Expedition, British Army West Nepal Expedition 1982, Malvern College Kashmir Expedition 1982 (numerous maps and photos - very lavish production), Bhagirathi I Expedition 1983, British Kishtwar Shivling Expedition 1983, Report on the Hagshu Kishtwar Himalayan Expedition 1983, British Bojohagur Expedition 1984, The Cambridge Karakoran Expedition 1984, British Trango Expedition 1984 (signed by four team members), all in orig. wrappers, mostly A4 or foolscap format (16)

193* Irvine (Andrew Comyn, 1902-1924). The Original 1924 Mount Everest Expedition Agreement, signed and dated by Irvine, 19 November 1923, comprising one typed covering letter on Mount Everest Committee headed notepaper, dated 17 November 1923, signed by Sydney Spencer, Joint Secretary, and two typed pages explaining the details of the agreement, the second page signed in black ink by A. Comyn Irvine and dated 19 Nov. 23, lightly creased where previously folded, with original manilla envelope

£70-100

192 Expedition Reports. Munjan Expedition 1966, folding table, printed upper wrapper detached, together with The Midlands Hindu Kush Expedition 1967, plates and maps, some folding, orig. printed wrappers, strengthened to spine (Neate S33), and Manchester Karakorum Expedition 1968, b & w photo. illusts, orig. printed wrappers (Neate A30), plus others comprising Scottish Hundu Kush Expedition 1968 (Neate S38), Manchester Nepalese Expedition 1970 (Neate A31), The Army Mountaineering Association Himachal Pradesh Expedition 1973 (signed by leader John Fleming), Hong Kong Mountaineering Expedition to Lamjung Himal Spring 1974 (Neate I20), the Roof of the World: The Report of the 1975 North of England Himalayas Expedition (Neate B67), Nuptse 1975: The Joint British Army Mountaineering Association and Royal Nepalese Army Expedition (2 copies; Neate F41), Ampleforth College Himalayan Expedition 1977 (Neate A45), Loughborough University Mountaineering Club 1977 Kistwar Himalayan Expedition, Irish Kishtiwar Himalayan Expedition (Neate N112), all in original bindings, various sizes (13)

Andrew ‘Sandy’ Comyn Irvine (6 April 1904-8 June 1924) was an English mountaineer who took part in the 1924 British Expedition (the third British expedition to the world’s highest 8,848m mountain). The expedition made two unsuccessful attempts on the summit in early June and there was time for one more before heavy snowfall would make climbing too dangerous. This last chance fell to the expedition’s most experienced climber, George Mallory and to the surprise of other expedition members, Mallory chose as his companion the young and inexperienced Irvine above the older, more seasoned climber, Noel Odell. Mallory and Irvine began their ascent on 6th June and by the end of the next day, the pair had established a final two-man camp at 8,168m (26,800 feet) from which to make their final push on the summit. Both Mallory and Irvine disappeared somewhere high on the mountain’s north east ridge and it has never been established whether or not they reached the summit. An ice axe, possibly belonging to Irvine was found in 1933 and in May 1999, a 1924 oxygen cylinder was found (but not recovered until May 1999), which almost certainly belonged to Mallory and Irvine. Mallory’s body was discovered in May 1999 but Irvine has never been found. It has been suggested that this historical and poignant document is in effect a signed death warrant.

(4) £300-500

£70-100

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194* The Geoff Milburn Archive. A large archive of approx. 1000 handwritten and typed letters, etc., mostly 1960s and later, all by and concerning climbing, correspondents include Les Ainsworth, Dave Alcock, Nat Allen, Joe Brown, John Cleare, Dave Cox, Rowland Edwards, Ron Fawcett, Neil Foster, Frank Fitzgerald, Phil Gibson, Peter Harding, Lord John Hunt, Dave Knighton, Johnnie Lees, Rudolf Loewy, Robin Hodgkin, Paul Mitchell, Rick Newcombe, Bernard Norman, Paul Nunn, Gus Pigott, Andy Pollitt, Nigel Rogers, John Roscoe, Hal Rouse, Alec Sharp, Tony Streather, John Sumner, Walt Unsworth, Len Wilson, et al, subjects relating to actual climbs, meetings, publishing projects, personal cards, admin, etc., many folio, arranged in polysleeves in nine modern ring binders and one card folder of unsorted letters (10)

£300-500

195* Manuscript Climbing Routes. A group of approx. sixty new route descriptions, mostly 1970s/1980s but including some pre-war, the majority handwritten but also including a few typed, mostly signed, including John Redhead’s description of ‘The Bells, The Bells!’, plus accounts signed by Morris Linnell (Great Eastern Scafell), Pete Livesey, Steve Bancroft and Joe Brown, plus accounts

by John Allen, Con Carey, Ed Cleasby, Rowland Edwards, Ron Fawcett, Mich Fowler, Simon Naden, Dave Knighton, Jim Moran, John Loy, Pat Littlejohn, Dominic Lee, Seb Grieve, Neil Foster, Richard Davies, Derek Carnell, Andy Pollitt, et al, mostly 1 or 2 pp. and mostly folio, together with a group of approx. twenty-six handwritten articles for C.C.J., 1970s, including articles by Ron Fawcett, Paul Mitchell, Jim Perrin, Tony Husbands, Dave Cuthbertson, Neil Foster, Jim Moran, Paul Williams, Geoff Milburn, Trevor Jones, mostly signed, one or two pages, folio, plus a few related items, both collections contained in polysleeves in two modern ring binders

Lot 194

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£200-300

Lot 196

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199* Postcards. A collection of approx. 160 postcards of Alpine views of mountaineering interest, mostly Edwardian period, including real-photo and coloured views, some postally used, condition generally G/VG, contained in two early 20th-c. clothbound albums, 4to (2)

200* Postcards. A large collection of approx. 1700 Alpine views, mostly pre-war, including coloured views, real-photo and sepia types, some postally used, condition generally good to very good, contained in two shoe boxes

196* Photographs. An assorted collection of twenty photograph albums, 1900/1960s, the majority including Alpine snapshots (typically postcard size and smaller) from various excursions and holidays by assorted British climbers across the decades but also including one album with South Africa and Table Mountain (1935) and Isle of Skye (1952), mostly contemp. cloth, various sizes (20)

£70-100

(approx. 1700)

£100-150

201* Postcards. A similar collection of approx. 1700 postcards, contained in two shoe boxes (approx. 1700)

£200-300

£100-150

202* Postcards. A similar collection of approx. 1600 postcards, contained in two shoe boxes (approx. 1600)

£100-150

203* Postcards. A similar collection of approx. 1800 postcards, contained in two shoe boxes (approx. 1800)

£100-150

204* Postcards. A similar collection of approx. 1600 postcards, including Chamonix and Mont Blanc, contained in two shoe boxes (approx. 1600)

£100-150

205* Postcards. A similar collection of approx. 1250 postcards, including Chamonix and Mont Blanc, contained in two shoe boxes (approx. 1250)

£100-150

197* Photographs. Himalayas, Alpine and British. A collection of approx. 200 mountaineering photographs, 1930s and later, mostly gelatin silver prints, some with captions to versos and/or details in the negative or to mounts, mostly loose and unmounted, many approx. 16 x 21cm and similar sizes (approx. 200)

£200-300

206* Postcards. A collection of approx. sixty-five postcard booklets, mostly pre-WWII, all Alpine views, including Chamonix and Mont Blanc, orig. printed pictorial and decorative covers, oblong 8vo

198* Photographs. British Rock Climbing. A group of approx. 200 photographs of British rock climbing, c. 1930s/1970s, mostly vintage gelatin silver prints, some with captions or stamps to versos, many showing climbers in action, the majority 16 x 21cm and sl. larger (approx. 200)

(approx. 65)

£200-300

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£70-100

GREAT BRITAIN

207 Abraham (Ashley P.). Rock-Climbing in Skye, 1st ed., 1908, thirty collotype plates and one other plate, nine b & w diagrams, folding map contained in rear pocket, orig. cloth gilt, rubbed to head and foot of spine, 8vo

209 Abraham (George & Ashley). Rock-Climbing in North Wales, 1st ed., G.P. Abraham, Keswick, 1906, 30 collotype plates, 9 litho. route diagrams, wood engraved illusts to the text, t.e.g., orig. cloth gilt, slightly rubbed to head and foot of spine, 8vo

Neate A01: “Third part of the classic Jones-Abraham trilogy. The author was a mountain photographer who, with his brother George and O.G. Jones, was largely responsible for the development and popularization of rock-climbing in the Lake District and other parts of the British Isles.”.This copy is inscribed in ink from the author to Miss Nancy Ridyard (later Nancy Carpenter), one of the foremost women climbers of the 1930s. There is a further inscription to her, dated 1931, from her fiancee and fellow climber Tony Musgrave, the book being a gift from him. The folding map bears her name to the verso along with some neatly drawn and dated climbing routes taken between 1933 and 1936.

(1) £150-200

Neate A08: “His most important work, being the second part of the classic Jones-Abraham rock-climbing trilogy”. A bright copy.

(1) £150-200

210 Allen (Bob). On High Lakeland Fells. The 100 Best Walks and Scrambles, 1st ed., Pic Publications, Glossop, 1987, 20 copies, superb full-page col. illusts. from photos by Bob Allen, pict. endpapers, orig. pict. laminated boards, oblong 8vo All numbered copies of a special limited edition of 250, signed on title by Bob Allen. As new condition.

(20) £100-150

208 Abraham (George D.). British Mountain Climbs, 1st ed., September 1909, together with Swiss Mountain Climbs, 1st ed., 1911, b & w illusts. from photos, both orig. wallet-style red cloth, lettered in gilt, small 8vo (first title Neate A02, ‘His second most important work’), together with The Complete Mountaineer, 1st ed., 1907, Mountain Adventures at Home and Abroad, 1st ed., 1910, On Alpine Heights and British Crags, 1st ed., 1919, b & w illusts. from photos, all orig. cloth gilt, rubbed and some wear, 8vo (Neate A03, A06 & A07), and six others by the same author (11)

211 Allen (Bob). On High Lakeland Fells. The 100 Best Walks and Scrambles, 1st ed., Pic Publications, Glossop, 1987, thirteen numbered copies from a special limited edition of 250, signed on title by Bob Allen, with a further ten copies of the special limited edition which have not been signed by Allen As new condition.

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£150-200

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£100-150

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Lot 213

212 Baker (Ernest A.). The British Highlands with Rope & Rucksack, 1st ed., 1933, inscribed on flyleaf ‘To Howard Baker with love from his grandfather’, b & w illusts. from photos, some spotting, orig. cloth in frayed and torn d.j., together with The Highlands with Rope & Rucksack, 1st ed., 1923, b & w illusts. from photos, orig. cloth, gilt-dec. spine, a little rubbed, plus Moors, Crags & Caves of the High Peak and the Neighbourhood, 1st ed., [1903], folding map, b & w illusts. from photos, orig. pict. cloth in clean and bright condition, all 8vo

Lot 214

Published to raise money for the “Surprise View” appeal fund, formed to save 245 acres near Hathersage from development. Since long ages past gamekeepers representing the landed gentry, who own vast tracts of mountain and moorland for grouse shooting, have preserved their fiefdom using both cudgels and guns as and when necessary. Only one footpath from Hayfield up Williams Clough brought ramblers close to the forbidden Kinder Scout. After the 1932 Mass Kinder Trespass, Benny Rothman and friends were sentenced to prison after being found guilty by a Jury comprising two brigadier-generals, three colonels, two majors, three captains and two aldermen. Not until 1958 was access obtained to Bleaklow and Kinder. Phil Barnes book ‘Trespassers will be Prosecuted’ was produced to highlight some of the forbidden Peak District areas for the frustrated working class people of Sheffield and Manchester. Produced in small numbers most have been lost and only very rarely does a fine copy come to light.

(8) £70-100

Neate B09, B10 & B11. Baker was a contemporary of the Abraham Brothers with whom he climbed on occasions. He was also one of the party who made the first ascent on the Ben Nuis Chimney on Arran in 1901, a route not repeated for over fifty years. The third title in this group concerns Baker’s pioneer rock climbing on the outcrops of the Derbyshire Peak District and is his most important and sought-after book.

(3) £150-200

214 Basterfield (George). Songs of a Cragsman, 1st ed., pub. Fell & Rock Climbing Club, 1930, two copies, one signed on title by the author, orig. grey paper wrappers (wrappers of the signed copy soiled and creased), (Neate B56), together with two further copies of the same work, published by the author, Barrow-in-Furness, 1935, both signed on title by the author, orig. printed wrappers, dust soiled, one copy bound in recent plum cloth, (Neate B57), all tall slim 8vo, with The Songs of the Mountaineers, Collected and Edited by John Hirst, A.B. Cantab., M.I.E.A., for the Rucksack Club, [1922], recent green cloth gilt, 8vo, (Neate H99), and five others similar

213 Barnes (Phil). “Trespassers Will be Prosecuted”: Views of the Forbidden Moorlands of the Peak District, Sheffield, 1934, b & w photo. illusts, orig. printed card wrappers with mounted photographic plate to upper cover, 4to, together with Kinder Scout.

The Footpaths and Bridle-Roads About Hayfield, &c., by a Member of the Hayfield and Kinder Scout Ancient Footpaths Association, [Luke Garside], 4th ed., 1882, 54 pp., wood-engs. to text, folding map (old sellotape repairs to folds), orig. red cloth, blocked in black and lettered in gilt, a little rubbed and soiled, small 8vo, and Kinder Scout Public Footpath Opened May 29th 1897, 28 pp. including twelve b & w illusts. from photos, plus folding map, orig. printed wrappers, dust soiled, retained in recent light brown mock morocco, upper cover lettered in gilt, oblong 8vo,’and four others related, with a photocolour postcard ‘Kinder in Winter’, issued 24 April 1982, to commemorate the mass trespass onto the Kinder Scout, 24 April 1932, signed by Benny Rothman

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£70-100

215 Ben Nevis. Panorama seen from the Observatory on the Summit of Ben Nevis (the Highest Mountain in Great Britain). Giving the Names of the Chief Mountains, Lochs and Islands, Extending from Arran to Inverness, and from the Outer Hebrides to the Ochils, from Drawings by James E. Shearer, pub. R.S. Shearer & Son, Stirling, [1895], eight-section col. litho. panorama, mounted on linen (approx.

250cm fully extended), one section sl. browned, contained in orig. dark green cloth binding, upper cover lettered in gilt (18 x 33cm) (1)

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£200-300

216 Bonington (Chris). I Chose to Climb, 1966 (Neate B132; Annapurna South Face, 1971 (Neate B127); Everest South West Face, 1973 (Neate B129); Kongur. China’s Elusive Summit, 1982; Everest. The Unclimbed Ridge, 1983 (Neate B131); Chris Bonington.

The Everest Years, 1986, 1st eds., colour and b & w illustrations, original cloth, d.j.s, Everest the Unclimbed Ridge price-clipped, I Chose to Climb spine faded, 8vo, all signed by the author, plus Everest the Hard Way, 1976 and The Next Horizon, reprint, 1976 unsigned (8)

£100-150

218 Carr (Herbert Reginald Culling, 1896-1986). The Mountains of Snowdonia, In History, the Sciences, Literature and Sport, 1st ed., 1925, col. and b & w illusts. and maps including some folding, signed presentation inscription for Geoff Milburn from the author to front free endpaper and dated 1983, orig. cloth gilt, a little rubbed, 8vo, together with three copies of Milburn’s book Helyg Diamond Jubilee 1925-1985, pub. Climbers’ Club, 1985, b & w illusts. from photos, orig. cloth, two copies in d.j.s, the latter being signed limited editions, nos. 22 & 23 of 500 respec., the first with four additional signatures from the CC AGM and Dinner 1994, the latter noted as having been Herbert Carr’s copy, all 8vo, plus a photocopy of Herbert Carr’s unpublished diary (1915-1919), a photograph of Carr from 1935, framed and glazed, plus a group of six small photo albums, c. 191220, many captioned on mounts and showing Carr and others climbing in Wales, etc., plus some related modern photographs and ephemera

217 [Bourdillon, Francis William]. The Mountain’s Brow: A Lay of the Climbing of Helvellyn, Sept. 4th, 1883, n.p., [1883?], 11pp., anastatic frontispiece, poem in twenty-seven quatrains, paper watermarked ‘T.H. Saunders 1878, sewn as issued, partly uncut, slim folio, VG

(a small carton)

Rare - only one institutional copy traced at Yale University. Bourdillon (18521921), poet and translator is best remembered for his short poem ‘The Night has a Thousand Eyes’.

(1) £100-150

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£150-200

219 Cliffe (Charles Frederick). The Book of North Wales. Scenery, Antiquities, Highways and Byeways, Lakes, Streams, and Railways, 1st ed., 1850, engraved frontis., folding map, orig. blindstamped cloth gilt, slightly rubbed, together with Halliwell (J.O.), Notes of Family Excursions in North Wales, taken chiefly from Rhyl, Abergele, Llandudno, and Bangor, printed for the author, 1860, inscribed by the author to title, orig. blindstamped cloth gilt, a little fraying to head and foot of spine, and Cliffe (John Henry), Notes and Recollections of an Angler: Rambles among the Mountains, Valleys, and Solitudes of Wales, 1st ed., 1870, advertisement leaf to rear, orig. brown cloth gilt, rubbed to head and foot of spine, plus an identical copy bound in blue cloth, (Cliffe explored the high mountain cwms and summits pre-1870), plus Davies (R. Rice), The Cambrian Sketch-Book. Tales, Scenes, and Legends of Wild Wales, 1st ed., [1875], wood engraved frontis., orig. blindstamped cloth gilt, rubbed, plus Ramsay (A.C.), The Old Glaciers of Switzerland and North Wales, 1st ed., 1860, folding map, wood engraved illusts, name excised to front endpaper, orig. blindstamped cloth gilt, slightly rubbed to extrems, plus Moore (J.L., ed.), A Practical Guide to North Wales, Manchester, [1889], folding map of North Wales, trade adverts to front and rear, orig. pictorial card wrappers, upper cover detached, plus Roberts (Askew), The Gossiping Guide to Wales, 1881, maps and plans including some folding, trade adverts front and rear, orig. cloth gilt, fraying to head and foot of spine, plus other Welsh interest including ‘Round about Snowdon’ by T. Huson, ‘Welsh Scenery’ by Elijah Walton (Neate W13), a typed manuscript by E. Kelvin Lawrence titled “Gwern-y-Gof-Isaf” containing many original photographs, and a folding map of Snowdonia (12)

221 Fiction. Lefebure (Molly), Scratch and Co. The Great Cat Expedition, 1st ed., Gollancz, 1968, map frontis. and illusts. to text

by A. Wainwright, ex-lib. circular inkstamp to flyleaf, verso of title and verso of final blank, orig. boards with non-price clipped d.j., sl. surface damage to spine of d.j. and classification number sellotaped to foot of spine, together with the American 1st ed. of the same work, Meredith Press, New York, 1969, orig. light blue printed boards in matching d.j., chipped and rubbed, plus Coxhead (Elizabeth), One Green Bottle, 2nd imp., 1951, and Smythe (Frank S.), Secret Mission, 1st ed., Hodder & Stoughton, 1942, map front endpaper, orig. cloth, a little rubbed, all 8vo, and other mountaineering fiction (approx. 30)

£100-150

£200-300

222 Fiction. Bowman (W.E.), The Ascent of Rum Doodle, 1st ed., Max Parrish, 1956, sixteen half-tone plts., previous owner inscription on flyleaf, publisher’s flyer/order form loosely inserted, orig. boards in price-clipped d.j. (light crease to lower edge of d.j. and a couple of minor marks), 8vo Neate X39. An English comic classic. The sublime account of the successful expedition to ascend the 40,000-foot Rum Doodle, lead by Totter and despite the worst that the expedition cook, Pong, could do to prevent it. A very good, unrestored copy.

(1) £70-100

223 Hopkinson (Mary & Lady Ewing, editors). John and Alice Hopkinson 1824-1910, [1948], b&w plts., folding table at rear, orig. cloth gilt, rubbed, 8vo, Scarce, together with Benson (C. E.), Crag and Hound in Lakeland, 1902, b&w illusts., orig. cloth gilt, some fading, 8vo, plus Palmer (W. T.), The Vomplete Hill Walker. Rock Climber and Cave Explorer, 1934, b&w illusts., orig. cloth gilt, 8vo, plus eight others, incl. Mountaineering in Britain, by Ronald W. Clark & Edward C. Pyatt, 1957; Sea Cliff Climbing in Britain, by John Cleare & Robin Collomb, 1973, etc.

220 Docharty (William McKnight). A Selection of some 900 British and Irish Mountain Tops, 3 vols including two supplements, Darien Press, Edinburgh, 1954-1962, numerous b & w photo. plates including many folding panoramic views, orig. cloth gilt in dustwrappers, one wrapper a little spotted, 8vo

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Neate D34; D35. All volumes with presentation inscriptions by the author.

(3) £200-300

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£80-120

226 Jones (Owen Glynne). Rock-Climbing in the English Lake District, 2nd ed., G.P. Abraham & Sons, Keswick, 1900, 31 collotype photo. plates including portrait frontis. of Jones, 9 litho. route diagrams, 9 pp. pictorial mountaineering trade catalogue bound-in at rear, orig. cloth gilt, slightly rubbed to extrems, 8vo Neate J35. Jones was killed on the Dent Blanche in 1899. This second edition includes a 36 pp. “Memoir” of Jones by W.M. Crook, a portrait of the author and some other additions.

(1) £100-150

227 Jones (Trevor and Milburn, Geoff). Welsh Rock. 100 Years of Climbing in North Wales, 1st ed., Pic Publications, Glossop, 1986, sixteen copies, col. and b & w illusts. from photos, pict. endpapers, orig. laminated pict. boards, 8vo Neate a24. History of rock climbing in North Wales from the earliest times.

Special limited edition of 500 copies produced to mark the great partnership of Joe Brown and Don Whillans, these copies signed by both Jones and Milburn. As new condition.

(16) £100-150

224 Jones (Harry Longueville ). Illustrations of the Natural Scenery of the Snowdonian Mountains: Accompanied by a Description, Topographical and Historical, of the County of Caernarvon, London & Cambridge, 1829, fifteen hand-col. litho. plts. printed C. Hullmandel, list of subscribers, some scattered spotting, recent good quality plum half morocco gilt with matching slipcase, 4to A wide-margined copy.

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228 Jones (Trevor and Milburn, Geoff). Welsh Rock. 100 Years of Climbing in North Wales, Pic Publications, Glossop, 1986, fifteen copies, col. and b & w illusts. from photos, orig. laminated pict. boards, 8vo

£300-500

Special edition of 500 copies printed, these copies signed by Joe Brown and Geoff Milburn. As new condition.

(15) £100-150

225 Jones (Owen Glynne). Rock-Climbing in the English Lake District, 1st ed., Longmans, 1897, 30 b & w photo. plates, 9 litho. route diagrams, publishers catalogue to rear, modern cloth gilt, 8vo

229 Jones (Trevor and Milburn, Geoff). Welsh Rock. 100 Years of Climbing in North Wales, 1st ed., Pic Publications, Glossop, 1986, thirty copies, col. and b & w illusts. from photos, pict. endpapers, orig. laminated pict. boards, 8vo

Neate J35. “The first part of the classic trilogy completed by the Abraham brothers.”. This copy formerly belonged to Charles Hargreaves of Bankfield, Burnley, and contains neatly written ink notes to the endpapers record the composition of yearly climbing parties that gathered in Seatoller in the Lake District every year from 1897 until 1940. There are also written instructions for climbing Rake End Chimney and Gimmer Crag dated 1901 and 1898 respectively, plus some related letters and clippings loosely inserted.

(1) £100-150

Neate a24. Signed by Geoff Milburn only (Trevor Jones died in the spring of 1996). As new condition.

(30) £100-150

230 Jones (Trevor and Milburn, Geoff). Cumbrian Rock. 100 Years of Climbing in the Lake District, 1st ed., Pic Publications, Glossop, 1988, sixteen copies, col. and b & w illusts. from photos, map endpapers, orig. laminated pict. boards, 8vo All numbered copies of a special edition of 250 copies produced in memory of Ken Milburn who died on January 12 1988. All these copies signed by Trevor Jones and Geoff Milburn. As new condition.

(16) £150-200

231 Jones (Trevor and Milburn, Geoff). Cumbrian Rock, 100 Years of Climbing in the Lake District, 1st ed., Pic Publications, Glossop, 1988, thirty copies, all signed by Geoff Milburn, col. and b & w illusts., map endpapers, orig. laminated pict. boards, 8vo As new condition.

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£150-200

232 Lewin (W. Henry). Climbs, Published Privately for the Author, [1932], port. frontis., b & w illusts. from photos, some minor foreedge spotting, orig. yellow cloth, lettered and blocked in black, in dust soiled and sl. torn d.j., 8vo Limited edition 129/250, signed by the author. Neate L38. Includes Britain, the Alps, Canadian Rockies, etc.

(1) £70-100

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233 Lewin (W. Henry). Climbs, Published Privately by the Author, [1932], num. b&w plts., signed by the author, orig. yellow cloth gilt, 8vo, limited edition 34/250, (Neate L38) together with Benson (C. E.), Crag and Hound in Lakeland, 1902, b&w illusts., signed by the author to front pastedown, upper hinge strengthened, orig. cloth gilt, some rubbing, 8vo, plus Russell (Jean), Climb if you Will, 1974, b&w illusts., orig. cloth, d.j. now laminated with self-adhesive plastic, 8vo, limited publication, (it is thought that possibly less than eighty copies produced by Oread Mountaineering Club), (Neate R97), plus twelve others, incl. Mountaineering Art, by Harold Raeburn, 1st ed., 1920; Mountain Ascents in Westmoreland and Cumberland, by John Barrow, 1888, etc.

238 Pyatt (Edward C. and Noyce, Wilfrid). British Crags and Climbers, 1st ed., [1952], signed on flyleaf by Wilfrid Noyce, Edward C. Pyatt and Geoff Milburn, b & w illusts. from photos, orig. cloth in sl. rubbed d.j., 8vo, (Neate P106), together with Clark (Ronald W. and Pyatt, Edward C.), Mountaineering in Britain. A History from the Earliest Times to the Present Day, 1st ed., 1957, b & w illusts. from photos, orig. cloth in price-clipped and sl. frayed d.j., 8vo, (Neate C62), plus Pyatt (Edward C.), A Climber in the West Country, 1968, Climbing and Walking in South-East England, 1970, Coastal Paths of the South West, 1971, Chalkways of South and South-East England, [1974], all 1st eds., b & w illusts. from photos, sketch maps, orig. boards in sl. rubbed or chipped d.j.s, 8vo, and others

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£100-150

234 Lunn (Arnold H.M., editor). Oxford Mountaineering Essays, 1912, orig. cloth gilt, a trifle rubbed, 8vo (Neate L77), together with A Century of Mountaineering 1857-1957, 1957, The Swiss and their Mountains. A Study of the Influence of Mountains on Man, 1963, (Neate L82), The Mountains of Youth, 1925, author’s presentation copy, inscribed on flyleaf, Mountain Jubilee, 1943, Switzerland and the English, 1944, Zermatt and the Valais, 1955, all 1st eds., halftone plts., all orig. cloth in d.j. (some d.j.s frayed and torn), and others

by Arnold Lunn (26)

£70-100

239 Read (Brian J.). Mountaineering, The Literature in English: A Classified Bibliography, and an Introductory Survey, 4 vols, Thesis submitted for Fellowship of the Library Association, August, 1975, recent green leather gilt, folio Inscribed to front endpaper by Geoff Milburn: “Several copies of this typescript (unpublished) were produced. One was presented to the F&RCC library. This hard-backed version is a unique 4 volume set”.

(4) £70-100

£100-150

235 Milburn (Geoff). Helyg Diamond Jubilee 1925-1985, 1st ed., The Climbers’ Club, 1985, fifty-two copies, all signed by the author, col. and b & w illusts. from photos, orig. boards in d.j., 8vo As new condition. Neate M98. This cottage in North Wales was the first successful climber’s hut in Britain, and was a centre for leading rock-climbers for over twenty years.

(52) £150-200

236 Pilkington (Lawrence). An Alpine Valley and Other Poems, Wood-Engravings by Margaret Pilkington, 1924, wood-eng. decorations and illusts., some spotting, modern half morocco gilt over marbled boards, together with a second copy of the same work in orig. canvas-backed wrappers with printed paper label to upper cover, plus two others by Pilkington, plus Gibson (Wilfrid Wilson), Borderlands, 1st ed., 1914, orig. buckram gilt, spine browned, plus King (Alfred Castner), Mountain Idylls and Other Poems, 1st ed., 1901, b & w plts. including port. frontis. and one folding, some spotting, orig. dec. cloth, a little rubbed, all 8vo, plus other mostly 20th-c. British mountaineering poetry interest (27)

£70-100

237 Poucher (W.A.). Lakeland Through the Lens, 1940, Snowdon Holiday, 1943, Scotland Through the Lens, 1943, Lakeland Journey, 1945, Highland Holiday, 1945, A Camera in the Cairngorms, 1947, The Magic of Skye, 1949, Escape to the Hills, [1943], The Backbone of England, 1946, The Surrey Hills, 1949, all 1st eds., numerous b & w and sepia illusts. from photos, all orig. cloth in frayed and torn d.j., 4to, with fifteen others by Poucher, plus ten by F.S. Smythe and two similar (37)

£100-150

240 Rothery (Charles William). The Fate of Derwentwater, A Play in Three Acts, 1st ed., 1865, col. litho. frontis., three eng. plts., hinges cracked, orig. purple cloth, partly faded and dust-soiled, slim small folio, together with Tetley (Simon), Straddlebug Rhymes, enlarged ed., 1934, orig. printed boards, dust-soiled, 8vo, plus Collinson (T.H.), Lakeland Poems and Others, 1st ed., Carlisle, 1905, minor spotting, partly untrimmed, orig. cloth, sl. rubbed and soiled, 8vo, plus three others of Lakeland poems (6)

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£70-100

241 Sansom (George S.). Climbing at Wasdale Before the First World War. The Mountain Journal of an Edwardian Gentleman, pub.

Castle Cary Press Ltd., Somerset, on September 14, 1982, the Seventieth Anniversary of the Pioneer Girdle Traverse of Scafell, sixty copies, line drawings and a map by A. Wainwright, twelve photographs, orig. cloth in d.j., royal 8vo

246 West (Lionel F.). The Climber’s Pocket Book, Rock Climbing Accidents, With Hints on First Aid to the Injured. Some Uses of the Rope, Methods of Rescue, and Transport, 1st ed., Scientific Publishing Co., Manchester, [1907], 82 pp. including index and ads at rear, illusts. to text, bound without orig. printed wrappers in recent brown cloth, small 8vo, (Neate W43), together with Burgbacher (Kurt), White Hell. A Story of the Search and Rescue Service in the Alps, trans. Stella Humphries, 1st English ed., Methuen & Co. Ltd., 1961, b & w illusts. from photos, map endpapers, orig. boards in sl. torn d.j., 8vo, plus Maslen-Jones (Bob), Countdown to Rescue, 3rd ed., 1993, port. frontis., b & w illusts. from photos, map endpapers, orig. blue cloth boards, upper cover lettered in gilt, 8vo (limited edition 8/125, this copy signed and inscribed on title by the author to Geoff Milburn), plus Card (Frank), Whensoever. 50 Years of the RAF Mountain Rescue Service 1943-1993, 1st ed., Ernest Press, 1993, signed and inscribed on title to Geoff ‘Bibliophile’ Milburn, b & w illusts. and maps, pict. endpapers, orig. cloth in d.j., and others on mountain medicine, search and rescue, avalanches and glaciers, etc., including many booklets and pamphlets

As new condition. George Samuel Samson (1988-1980), educated at Wellington College and University College London, where he was Derby scholar for Zoology in 1912. A pioneer in the use of colour photography and stereophotographs, he was also a skilled metal and woodworker. During WWI he served at the front with the St. John’s Ambulance Brigade, later joining the Royal Flying Corps and awarded the MC and Distinguished Flying Cross. In the 1930s he flew regularly at Brooklands where he was known as ‘The Professor’.

(60) £200-300

242 Shairp (John Campbell). Life and Letters of James David Forbes, 1st ed., 1873, portrait frontispiece, folding maps, illustrations, a few spots, prize label, original cloth, edges lightly rubbed, 8vo, together with Frank Cunningham’s James David Forbes. Pioneer Scottish Glaciologist, 1990

(approx. 100)

Neate S46. Biography of the Scottish scientist who was one of the first to carry out systematic Alpine exploration, and also visited Norway in the course of his glaciological studies. He spans the era from de Saussure to Alfred Wills.

(2) £70-100

247 Whillans (Don & Ormerod, Alick). Don Whillans. Portrait of a Mountaineer, 1st ed., 1971, signed to half-title by Don Whillans, Nat Allen & Joe Brown, b&w illusts., orig. cloth gilt, some wear, in d.j., small tear to rear wrapper, 8vo, together with Brown (Joe), The Hard Years. An Autobiography, 1st ed., 1967, signed to title by Joe Brown, b&w illusts., orig. cloth in d.j., 8vo, plus Jones (Trevor & Millburn, Geoff), Welsh Rock. 100 Years of Climbing in North Wales, 1st ed., 1986, signed to front endpaper by Trevor Jones, Geoff Milburn & Joe Brown, b&w illusts., orig. col. pict. boards, 8vo, plus two others, comprising Rope Boy, by Dennis Gray, 1970 & Mountain Lover, 1990, both signed by Dennis Gray

243 Styles (Showell). The Moated Mountain, 1st ed., 1955, colour frontis., b & w photo. plates, map endpapers, orig. cloth in slightly chipped dust-wrapper, (Neate S191), together with Rock and Rope, 1st ed., 1967, signed on title by the author, b & w illusts., orig. cloth in dust-wrapper, plus A Climber in Wales, Birmingham, [1948], b & w photo. plates, orig. cloth in slightly soiled dust-wrapper, (Neate S180) and Introduction to Mountaineering, 1st ed., [1954], b & w photo. plates, orig. cloth in dust-wrapper, (Neate S187), plus Men and Mountaineering, 1st ed., 1968, signed on title by the author, orig. cloth in dust-wrapper, (Neate S190) and others by Styles, all 8vo (18)

£200-300

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£70-100

£100-150

244 [Symington, Noel Howard]. The Night Climbers of Cambridge

by Whipplesnaith, 1st ed., 1937, inscribed by the author to George Phelps (mentioned on p.141) and also signed “Whipplesnaith” to title, b & w photo. plates, orig. cloth in chipped dust-wrapper, together with [Young ,Geoffrey Winthrop], Wall and Roof Climbing, 1st ed., Eton College, 1905, half title, some light dampstaining, later cloth gilt, together with [Young, Geoffrey Winthrop & Hurst, John], Roof Climber’s Guide to Trinity, 2nd ed., 1930, inscribed by John Hurst, b & w illusts, orig. printed paper wrappers retained in later blue leatherette, and [Young, Geoffrey Winthrop & Williams, Richard], The Night Climber’s Guide to Trinity, 3rd ed., 1960, b & w illusts, orig. printed card wrappers retained in later cloth gilt, plus “Hederatus”, Cambridge Nightclimbing, 1st ed., 1970, b & w photo. illusts, orig. cloth in excellent dust-wrapper, all 8vo Neate W54; Y23; Q70; Q69.

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£200-300

245 Wainwright (Alfred). A Pictorial Guide to the Lakeland Falls: The Eastern Falls, 1st imp., 1955, The Central Fells, 3rd imp., 1958, The Southern Fells, 2nd imp., 1960, The Northern Fells, 10th imp., 1964, The North Western Fells, 7th imp., 1964, The Western Fells, 2nd imp., 1966, b & w illusts, orig. limp cloth gilt, Eastern Fells and Northern Fells in slightly chipped dust-wrappers, the remainder without dustwrappers, together with one other later edition, 8vo, and A Lakeland Sketchbook, parts 1-7, 1969-1973, plus Scottish Mountain Drawings, parts 3 & 6, 1976-1979, A Dales Sketchbook, 1976, Fellwanderer, 1966, b & w illusts., orig. cloth gilt, dust-wrappers with a few short nicks and tears, oblong 8vo, plus a modern biography of Wainwright (17)

£150-200

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250 Yorkshire Ramblers’ Club. Annual Report and List of Members, Leeds, 1893-1898, an unbroken run of the first seven reports, all retaining orig. printed wrappers, bound with other ephemera relating to the Yorkshire Ramblers’ Club including a copy of a letter from Edward Whymper accepting the offer of becoming an honorary member of the club, an original copy of the club rules from 1892 and card containing a list of the original members, a pamphlet titled “Mountaineering without Guides. The Conclusion of a Lecture to the Yorkshire Ramblers’ Club, given on October 27th, 1896 by Charles Pilkington”, pub. Leeds, 1897, a folding sheet advertising an 1895 lecture by Hermann Woolley titled ‘The Alps of the Central Caucasus’, plus a few cuttings, all bound into contemp. green cloth by Goodall & Suddick of Leeds, the upper cover with blocked design in black of mountaineers, with club motif to lower cover, the spine lettered in gilt, a little fraying to foot of spine, 8vo

248 Williams (William, of Llandegai). Observations on the Snowdon Mountains; With Some Account of the Customs and Manners of the Inhabitants, to which is Added a Genealogical Account of the Penrhyn Families, 1st ed., 1802, a few marginal notes in pencil, some spotting, near-contemp. half calf gilt, rubbed and a little chipped at head of spine, slim 8vo (1)

£100-150

249 Wilson (Ken, and others). Hard Rock. Great British RockClimbs, 1st ed., 1975, signed on title by the author (Neate W108); Hard Rock, Greatest British Rock-Climbs, 2nd ed., 1981, with author’s letter signed on Diadem headed notepaper, dated 10.3.87, regarding the use of photographs from his own archive, ‘... With material researched and collected exhaustively! for other projects, I am disinclined to just hand everything over... If I was convinced it was going to be the definitive history, or if Diadem had a stake in the project, the situation would be different... ‘, (Neate W108); Classic Rock, 1st ed., 1978, signed on title by the author (Neate W103); The Big Walks. Challenging Mountain Walks and Scrambles in the British Isles, 1st ed., 1980, (Neate W102); Classic Walks. Mountain and Moorland Walks in Britain and Ireland, 1st ed., 1982 (Neate W104); Cold Climbs. The Great Snow and Ice Climbs of the British Isles, 1st ed., 1983, signed on title by the author, (Neate W105); Extreme Rock.

Great British Rock Climbs, 1st ed., 1987, signed on title by the author’ (Neate W106); Extreme Alpine Rock. The 100 Greatest Alpine Rock Climbs, 1st ed., 1988, Extreme Alpine Rock. The 100 Greatest Alpine Rock Climbs, by Walter Pause and Jurgen Winkler, 2nd ed., revised, trans. Hugh Merrick, pub. Granada, 1979, 1st ed., 1979; Wild Walks.

Mountain, Moorland and Coastal Walks in Britain and Ireland, 1st ed., 1988, together 9 vols., numerous col. and b & w illusts. from photos, all orig. cloth in d.j., G/VG (9)

The Yorkshire Ramblers’ Club was formed in 1892, only the second English mountaineering club after the Alpine Club. This collection of reports and ephemera formerly belonged to Lewis Moore, one of the original members listed in the first report, and bears his name to the front blank. There are several neat annotations made by Moore throughout the reports, often adding more information about a climb.

(1) £300-500

£200-300

251 Young (Geoffrey Winthrop). Collected Poems, 1st ed., 1936, with 24-line manuscript poem on rear free endpaper, plus two leaves of manuscript poems loosely inserted, and author’s typed letter signed mounted on front pastedown, orig. cloth in sl. frayed and price-clipped d.j. (Neate Y15), together with Freedom. Poems, 1st ed., 1914, some minor scattered spotting, orig. cloth gilt, (Neate Y16) and April and Rain. Poems, 1st ed., 1923, orig. cloth, a trifle rubbed, (Neate Y14), all 8vo, and two others related, plus a silver gelatin portrait photograph of Geoffrey Winthrop Young, by Douglas Milner, boldly signed and dated by Young, 1952 (24 x 19cm)

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£200-300

GUIDE BOOKS 253 Abraham (George D.). British Mountain Climbs, 2nd ed., 1923, b&w illusts., orig. printed cloth, signed on front cover by A. B. Hargreaves, rubbed, 8vo, together with Harding (P. R. J.), Llanberis Pass, 1955, signed on title by the author, orig. printed cloth, signed on front cover by A. B. Hargreaves, small 8vo, plus Carr (Herbert R. C.), A Climbers’ Guide to Snowdon and the Beddgelert District, 1926, b&w illusts., orig. cloth gilt, rubbed and some fading, small 8vo, together with fourteen other guides, mostly later (17)

254 Ball (John). Ball’s Alpine Guides: Bernese Alps including the Oberland, 1st ed., 1873, two folding maps, double-page map to front endpapers, orig. green cloth gilt, a little fraying to head and foot of spine, together with eight other first edition volumes from the same series comprising: Central Tyrol, East Switzerland, North Switzerland, North Tyrol, The Pass of St. Gothard, South Tyrol, South-Western Alps, Styrian Carnac & Julian Alps, all published in 1873, with all folding maps and plates present, one volume (East Switzerland) stengthened to inner hinge with old sellotape, all in orig. cloth gilt, a little rubbed with some minor fraying to spine extrems, all 8vo

252 Young (Geoffrey Winthrop). Mountains with a Difference, New Alpine Library series, 1st ed., 1951, author’s presentation copy to Ruby Rathbone, ‘Daughter of the mountains - who herself made such a difference to us’, signed on flyleaf Geoffrey Winthrop Young and Elaine, September 1951, with author’s typed letter signed mounted on front pastedown, b & w illusts. from photos, orig. cloth in frayed and chipped d.j., 8vo, (Neate Y20. Account of his Alpine climbs with an artifical leg, after 1918), together with On High Hills.

Memories of the Alps, 1st ed., 1927, (Neate Y21. This book contains accounts of his great Alpine climbs before 1914, and much of his finest prose); Mountain Craft, 3rd ed., 1934, b & w illusts. from photos, orig. cloth gilt, a little rubbed and minor wear to extremities, 8vo, (Neate Y19) and Hankinson (Alan), Geoffrey Winthrop Young.

Poet, Educator, Mountaineer, 1st ed., 1995, signed on title by the author, b & w illusts. from photos, orig. boards in d.j., 8vo, and six others related (8)

£80-120

Neate B19-B31. Rare.

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£300-400

255 Ball (John). The Alpine Guide: The Western Alps, new edition, reconstructed and revised on behalf of the Alpine Club by W.A.B. Coolidge, 1898, ten folding maps (some toning and fraying to protuding edges), orig. cloth, a little rubbed and marked, together with Hints and Notes Practical and Scientific for Travellers in the Alps, new edition prepared on behalf of the Alpine Club by W.A.B. Coolidge, 1899, pictorial trade adverts to front and rear, orig. printed boards, upper cover near-detached, and The Alpine Guide: The Central Alps, 2 vols, new ed., 1907-11, volume one complete with six folding maps, volume two containing one map only (of ten), orig. cloth, ink initials to upper cover of first vol., all 8vo

£100-150

Neate B20; B32.

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£100-150

260 Constable Guides, 26 vols., mostly 1st eds., 1970-97, titles incl. A Cambrian Way; Scottish Climbs, vols 1 & 2; Medical Handbook for Mountaineers; Mountain Hazards; Mountain Navigation Techniques, etc., num. b&w illusts., orig. cloth gilt in d.j.s/orig. col. pict. wrappers, small 8vo

256 British Mountaineering Council Guidebooks. On Peak Rock: A Guide to Selected Rock Climbs on One Hundred Peak District Outcrops, 1993, no. 37 of a special edition of 50 copies, colour and b & w illusts, orig. printed boards, 8vo, together with Peak Limestone Wye Valley, 2 vols (climbs / history), 1999, colour and b & w illusts, orig. printed boards, plus Rock Climbs in the Lancashire Area, 1999, colour and b & w illusts, orig. printed boards, plus Peak Rock Climbs, 5th series, vols. 1-3 (Stanage, Kinder & Froggatt), 198991, colour and b & w illusts, orig. colour printed wrappers, and Peak District Climbs, 4th series, vols. 7 (Staffordshire Area), 1989, colour and b & w illusts, orig. colour printed plastic wrappers, all 8vo Many signed by Geoff Milburn, editor of the BMC. (8)

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£80-120

£70-100

257 British Mountaineering Council Guidebooks. On Peak Rock: A Guide to Selected Rock Climbs on One Hundred Peak District Outcrops, 1993, no. 34 of a special edition of 50 copies, colour and b & w illusts, orig. printed boards, 8vo, together with Peak Limestone Wye Valley, 2 vols (Climbs/History), 1999, colour and b & w illusts, orig. printed boards, and another copy of the same work, plus Rock Climbs in the Lancashire Area, 1999, colour and b & w illusts, orig. printed boards, plus Peak Rock Climbs, 5th series, vols.

1-3 (Stanage, Kinder & Froggatt), 1989-91, colour and b & w illusts, orig. colour printed wrappers, and Peak District Climbs, 4th series, vols. 6 & 7 (Moorland Gritstone / Staffordshire Area), 1988 & 1989, colour and b & w illusts, orig. colour printed plastic wrappers, all 8vo Many signed by Geoff Milburn, editor of the BMC. (9)

£70-100

258 British Mountaineering Council Guidebooks. On Peak Rock: A Guide to Selected Rock Climbs on One Hundred Peak District Outcrops, 1993, colour and b & w illusts, orig. printed boards, 8vo, together with Peak Limestone Wye Valley, 2 vols (Climbs/History), 1999, colour and b & w illusts, orig. printed boards, and another copy of the same work, plus Peak Rock Climbs, 5th series, vols. 2-3 (Kinder & Froggatt), 1990-91, colour and b & w illusts, orig. colour printed wrappers, and Peak District Climbs, 4th series, vols. 1-2, 67 (Stanage / Derwent / Staffordshire / Moorland Gritstone), 1983-89, colour and b & w illusts, orig. colour printed plastic wrappers, plus Rock Climbs in the Peak, vol. 6 (Staffordshire), 1981, b & w illusts, orig. printed wrappers, and Peak Topo Guidebooks, vol. 1 (Stanage), 1993, b & w illusts, orig, printed wrappers, all 8vo Many signed by Geoff Milburn, editor of the BMC. (11)

261 Conway & Coolidge’s Climbers’ Guides. A complete set, 15 vols, all 1st editions, plus The Bernese Oberland by G. Hasler [and others], 4 parts in 5 vols, 1902-1908, and The Central Alps of the Dauphiny by W.A.B. Coolidge [and others], 1892, with similarly bound companion map volume, plus The Chain of Mont Blanc by Louis Kurz, 1892, Climbers’ Guide to the Central Pennine Alps by William Martin Conway (one of only 400 copies printed), 1890, Climbers’ Guide to the Eastern Pennine Alps by William Martin Conway (one of only 400 copies printed), 1891, The Lepotine Alps

by William Martin Conway and W.A.B. Coolidge, 1892, The Mountains of Cogne by George Yeld and W.A.B. Coolidge, 1893, The Range of the Todi by W.A.B. Coolidge, 1894, plus Maps of the Dauphiny Alps, issued by the S.A.C. Association of British Members, 1892, maps present where called for, all bound in original walletstyle cloth gilt with pencil holder to spines (only one pencil present), slightly rubbed and faded, a few volumes cracking at the inner hinges, small 8vo

£70-100

259 Bunnell (J.F., Green Howards). Rock Climbing Guide to Hong Kong, 1st ed., pub. Hong Kong, 1959, 65 pp., author’s presentation copy, signed and inscribed on verso of frontis., b & w illusts. from photos, orig. cloth, upper cover lettered in green, old sellotape marks to endpapers, (Neate Q816), together with Gardner (R.J.), Rock Climbing Guide to the West Darling, pub. The Barrier Rangers, P.O. Box 515, Broken Hill, 2880, [1971], 67 pp., six folding cylostyled maps, orig. printed stiff card upper cover, recent linen backstrip and replacement back board, both small 8vo (15.5 x 11cm), plus Heywood (G.S.P.), Rambles in Hong Kong, 2nd ed., pub. Hong Kong, 1951, 80 pp., b & w illusts. to text, map endpapers, orig. printed boards, a little chipped at head and foot of spine, slim 8vo, and Reeve (D.C.), A Guide to Rock Climbing in Hong Kong, 1st ed., 1968, col. and b & w illusts. from photos, orig. laminated pict. boards, a little rubbed on spine, 8vo (4)

Neate (in order) C110-C122. One volume with ownership markings of mountaineer Tom Longstaff (1875-1964) and a few pencil technical notes by him in pencil.

(16) £300-500

262 Harding (P. R. J.). Llanberis Pass, pub. Climbers’ Club, 1955, signed on title by Peter Harding, orig. cloth, small 8vo, together with Byne (Eric, ed.), Climbs on Gritstone, vol. 2, the Sheffield Area, 1951, presentation copy from Eric Byne, b&w plts., orig. cloth, rubbed, small 8vo, plus Newton (Andy & others), Climbers’ Club Guides to Wales, Gogarth, vol. 7, 1990, col. and b&w illusts., orig. col. pict. boards, 8vo, limited edition 10/10, plus Williams (Paul), Climbers’ Club Guides to Wales, Llanberis, vol. 3, 1987, col. and b&w illusts., orig. cloth gilt in d.j., small 8vo, limited edition 10/10, plus other similar guides

£50-80

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67

£80-120

263 Haskett Smith (W.P.). Climbing in the British Isles, 2 vols, (England/Wales & Ireland), 1894-95, b & w illusts, orig. dec. cloth, a little fraying to head and foot of spines, 16mo, together with Fell & Rock Climbing Club. Doe Crags and Climbs around Coniston by George S. Bower, [1922], and Pillar Rock and Neighbouring Climbs

by H.M. Kelly, [1923], Climbs on the Scawfell Group by C.F. Holland, [1924], Climbs on Great Gable by H.S. Gross, [1925], Crags for Climbing in and Around Great Langdale...by George Basterfield, [1926], b & w plates, some damspstaining to endpapers, uniform red leather covers, plus Abraham (George D.), British Mountain Climbs, 6th ed., 1948, b & w illusts, orig. cloth, all 8vo

267 Pretty (Mark; Farrant, Dave & Millburn, Geoff). Climbers’ Club Guide to Wales, vol. 8, Tremadog and Cwm Silyn, 1989, col. and b&w illusts., orig. col. pict. boards, 8vo, limited edition 4/5, signed by Geoff Milburn, together with Williams (Paul), Climbers’ Club Guide to Wales, vol. 3, Llanberis, 1987, col. and b&w illusts., orig. cloth gilt in d.j., 8vo, limited edition 8/10, plus Climbers’ Club Guide to Wales, vol. 4, Clogwyn Du’r Arddu, 1988, col. and b&w illusts., orig. col. printed wrappers, 8vo, limited edition 8/10, signed

by Paul Williams and Geoff Milburn, plus fifteen other guides

Neate S107; Q18; Q41; Q46; Q34; Q13.

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268 Pyatt (Edward C.). Sandstone Climbs in South-east England, pub. Junior Mountaineering Club of Scotland, 1947, b & w maps and illusts, neat ink annotations, orig. printed wrappers, staples rusted, 8vo (Neate Q64), together with Murray (W.H.), Rock Climbs: Glencoe and Ardgour, The Scottish Mountaineering Club, 1949, b & w illusts, ink notes and annotations, orig. cloth, 16mo, and Bryson (H. Courtney), Rock Climbs around London, 1936, b & w illusts, orig. pictorial cloth, finger soiled, small 8vo (Neate Q60), and WardDrummond (Ed.), Extremely Severe in the Avon Gorge, 1967, b & w plates, orig. printed wrappers, 8vo, plus Lawder (K.M., ed.), Climbing Guide to Dartmoor and South West Devon, pub. Royal Navy Ski and Mountaineering Club, c.1950, lacking front free endpaper, orig. cloth, 16mo, plus other similar guide books to British locations

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£70-100

264 Lunn (Rev. Henry S.). The Grindelwald Conference, 1894. A Holiday in the Bernese Oberland, with Extensions to Mont Blanc, the Matterhorn, and St. Gothard, the Italian Lakes, the Engadine, and the Falls of the Rhine, [pub. 1894], port. frontis., half-tone plts. and maps (including five folding), commercial ads both front and rear, orig. red. cloth, upper cover lettered in gilt, spine somewhat creased, 8vo, together with Muddock (J.E., editor), The ‘J.E.N.’ Guide to Switzerland. The Alps and How to See Them, 3rd ed., improved and revised, 1883, folding maps and plans, folding panorama of the RigiKulm, orig. cloth, lettered in silver, rubbed on spine, small thick 8vo, plus Brooke (Margaret L. and Winifred M.A.), Winter Light in Switzerland. Its Sports and Health Resorts, 2nd ed., revised and enlarged by A. Eichenberger, pub. Zurich & London, [1913], tippedin col. frontis., numerous b & w illusts. from photos, commercial ads both front and rear, orig. pict. cloth, rubbed, 8vo, and four others similar (7)

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£70-100

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£70-100

270 Williams (Paul). Climbers’ Club Guide to Wales, vol. 3, Llanberis, 1987, col. and b&w illusts., orig. cloth gilt in d.j., 8vo, limited edition 9/10, signed by Geoff Milburn, together with Climbers’ Club Guide to Wales, vol. 4, Clogwyn Du’r Arddu, 1988, col. and b&w illusts., orig. col. pict. wrappers, 8vo, limited edition 9/10, plus Sumner (John), Climbers’ Club Guide to Wales, vol. 9, Mid-Wales, 1988, col. and b&w illusts., orig. cloth in d.j., 8vo, limited edition 9/10, plus eleven other guides

£70-100

266 Parker (H. C., ed.). Climb on Gritstone. Laddow Area, 1948, b&w illusts., orig. printed cloth, some wear, small 8vo, together with Byne (Eric & White, Wilfred B.), Climbs on Gritstone, vol. 4, Further Developments in the Peak District, 1957, b&w illusts., ex-lib. with usual markings, inkstamps etc., orig. printed cloth, spine darkened, rubbed, small 8vo, plus Sumner (John), Climbers’ Club Guide to Wales, vol. 9, Mid-Wales, 1988, col. and b&w illusts., orig. cloth in d.j., 8vo, limited edition 9/10, signed by John Sumner & Geoff Milburn, plus nineteen other guides (22)

£70-100

269 Roper (Steve). Climber’s Guide to Yosemite Vaklley, Sierra Club, San Francisco, 1971, b & w photo. plates, orig. limp printed wrappers, small 8vo, together with Osmaston (H.A. & Pasteur, D.), Guide to the Ruwenzori: The Mountains of the Moon, 1972, b & w illusts, orig. cloth, small 8vo, and Livesey (Peter), French RockClimbs: A Selection of fine free rock-climbs chosen from outside the Alpine areas, 1st ed., 1980, b & w illusts, orig. cloth in dust-wrapper, small 8vo, and Ross (Paul & Ellms, Chris), A Rock Climber’s Guide, 1978, b & w photo. plates, orig. cloth, 8vo. plus other similar guide books to various overseas locations

265 Nixon (John). Climbing Guide to the Avon Gorge, University of Bristol Mountaineering Club, 1959, b & w frontis., orig. clothbacked printed boards, 12mo, plus Wilson (M.F. ed.), Climbs in Cleveland, pub. Cleveland Mountaineering Club, [1956], b & w illusts, orig. cloth, 12mo, plus Rouse (Alan), A Climber’s Guide to Helsby and the Wirral, 1976, b & w illusts, orig. printed wrappers, small 8vo, and Ross (Paul & Thompson, Michael), Borrowdale: A Climber’s Guide, [Carlisle, 1966], b & w illusts, orig. printed wrappers, small 8vo, and Milburn (Geoff, ed.), Stanage Millstone, 1st ed., 1983, colour frontis., numerous b & w illusts, orig. printed wrappers, small 8vo, plus other similar guide books to British locations (53)

£70-100

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£70-100

271 Wrangham (E.A., ed.). Selected Climbs in the Range of Mont Blanc, 1st ed., 1957, b & w illusts, orig. cloth in slightly chipped dustwrapper, small 8vo, together with Collomb (Robin G.), Alpine Guide, vols 1 & 2 (Chamonix-Mont Blanc & Zermatt and District), 1969, b & w photo. illusts, orig. printed boards, tall 8vo, and Alpine Club Guide Books. Mont Blanc Range, 3 vols, 1976-80, b & w illusts, orig. leatherette gilt, 12mo, plus West Col Alpine Guides.

Dents du Midi region, 1967, orig. printed wrappers, 16mo, plus other similar Alpine guide books

£70-100

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£70-100

PERIODICALS 272 The Alpine Journal: A Record of Mountain Adventure and Scientific Observation, by Members of the Alpine Club, edited by H.B. George & others, vols. 1-105, bound in 115, a complete run, 1863-2000, vols. 64-73 each bound in 2 vols., num. b&w illusts. and maps (many folding), occ. spotting to earlier vols., mostly orig. cloth gilt, later vols. mostly in d.j.s, several vols. with some dampstaining to covers, vols. 2, 4, 5, 7 & 9 with slight loss to outer cover edges, together with seven Index vols. and five duplicates, all 8vo Neate J29.

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279 Himalayan Journal, Records of the Himalayan Club, vols. 1-47 (plus Index), a run, pub. London & Oxford, 1929-1991, b&w plts. and illusts., orig. printed wrappers/orig. col. pict. wrappers, earlier vols. with some wear and fraying to spines, several with lib. inkstamp to upper cover, vol. 10 with upper cover detached, rubbed, 8vo (48)

280 Journal of the Mountain Club of South Africa, vols. 34-38, 40, 41, 43, 44, 46-67, 71-74, 75-77 & 87-89 bound in twenty-eight, Capetown, 1932-86, num. b&w plts. and illists., ex-lib. with usual markings, all 20th c. green cloth gilt, 8vo, together with twenty-three others related, incl. eighteen orig. issues, c. 1937-84

£1000-1500

273 American Alpine Journal, a broken run, 1934-1994, comprising vol. 2, nos 1-4 & vol. 3, no 1, 1936-7, bound in one; vols.

7-15 (issues 22-41), 1948-67, bound in eight; and issues 44-45 & 4768, 1970-1994, in twenty-four orig. vols., numerous col. and b & w illusts. from photos, first 9 vols. hardbound, without wrappers, remainder orig. pict. stiff wrappers, plus two Index, 1929-76 & 197786, orig. printed card wrappers, all 8vo

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274 Cairngorm Club Journal, vols. 1-10, pub. Aberdeen, 18961923, num. b&w illusts. (some folding), ex-lib. with usual markings, contemp. half calf/full cloth gilt, wear and fraying to spines with lib. no. to base of each, 8vo

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£100-150

(7)

£150-200

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£150-200

£70-100

285 Mountain, nos. 1-108 bound in nine, Jan 1969-Apr 1986, num. col. and b&w illusts., all orig. pict. wrappers bound in contemp. cloth gilt, large 4to (9)

£70-100

286 Mountaineering Journal, 4 vols., ed. & published by Carl K. Brunning, 1932-36, col. and b&w illusts., orig. printed cloth, some marks, 4to, together with Geographical Journal, 40 orig. issues, c. 1922-70, b&w illusts., all orig. printed wrappers, several earlier vols. with fraying amd slight loss to spines, 8vo, plus other mountaineering related

£70-100

278 Geographical Magazine, vols. 1-34, pub. 1935-62, col. and b&w illusts. throughout, mostly contemp. cloth gilt, some marks, 4to, together with Geographical Journal, vol. CXIX, Jan-Dec, 1953, b&w plts. and maps, ex-lib. with occ. inkstamps, orig. cloth gilt, bound with orig. wrappers, 8vo, (Contains the account of the 1953 ascent of Mount Everest by Edmund Hillary), plus National Geographic Magazine, Cummulative Index, 2 vols., pub.

Washington, 1952, b&w illusts., orig. cloth gilt, 8vo, plus twentynine orig. issues of the Geographical Magazine, c. 1937-1959 (66)

£100-150

284 Mountain Club of Kenya, Bulletin, nos. 14, 18-21, 23-29, 3251, 54-66, 68, 73-81, 85 & 90, pub. Nairobi, 1950-95, b&w illusts., some staining to first issue, orig. printed wrappers, rubbed, 8vo, together with the Mountain Club of East Africa, Bulletin, no. 10, 1949

277 Crags, nos. 1-33 bound in three, 1976-81, num. b&w illusts., issue no. 1 loose in front pocket, all recent cloth retaining orig. col. wrappers, 4to, together with duplicates of nos. 2-33 bound in recent cloth gilt with ‘Geoff Milburn’ in gilt to base of spines, 4to, plus High Magazine, nos. 1-40 bound in four, 1982-86, col. and b&w illusts., all orig. col. pict. wrappers bound in recent cloth gilt with ‘Geoff Milburn’ in gilt to base of spines, 4to (9)

£100-150

283 Manchester University Mountaineering Club, 24 orig. issues, c. 1929-65, mounted b&w photos to first four issues, printed b&w illusts. thereafter, one photo excised from 1930 issue, orig. printed wrappers, upper wrapper of 1929 detached, 4to/8vo, together with six duplicates & MUMC Bulletin issues 1-4, 1970-74

276 Climbers’ Club Journal, vols. 1-13 bound in six, 1898-1910, b&w plts., 20th c. half morocco/cloth gilt, rubbed, 8vo, together with New Series, vols. 1-3 & 5-15 bound in seventeen, 1912-75, b&w illusts., 20th c. cloth gilt/recent cloth gilt, 8vo/large 8vo, plus thirteen others related (36)

£150-200

282 Ladies’ Alpine Club, 49 orig. issues bound in seven, a near complete run (lacking 1935 & 1974), 1925-1975, b&w illusts., all orig. printed wrappers (1925-40 lacking rear cover, 1972 missing front cover), bound in recent cloth gilt, small 8vo/8vo

275 Climber, (later Climber & Rambler), The Magazine for Mountaineer and Rambler, vol. 1, no. 1-vol. 24, no. 12 bound in twenty-three, a run, Nov 1962-Dec 1984, num. b&w illusts., all orig. col. pict wrappers bound in recent morocco/cloth gilt, vols. spanning 1973-85 with ‘Geoff Milburn’ in gilt to base of spines, bound for ‘Sydney Donkins’ (an original member and ex-president), 4to Neate j41/42/43.

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£100-150

281 Journal of the Fell & Rock Climbing Club of the English Lake District, vols. 1-23 bound in twenty-two, pub. Ulverston, 1907-83, b&w plts. and illusts., vol. 2 is signed at front by ‘John Laycock’ (author of the first guidebook to Derbyshire, Some Gritstone Climbs) vol. 1 orig. printed cloth gilt (spine faded), vols 2 & 3 contemp. half morocco gilt (worn), remainder recent cloth gilt, 8vo, togeth with twelve others related

Issue 54 (1980) incorrectly printed 53 on the spine and contents page.

(35) £100-150

(10)

£300-400

(a carton)

£150-200

69

£100-150

287 Oxford and Cambridge Mountaineering, 4 orig. issues, 1921, 1922, 1924 & 1928-29, b&w illusts. from photos, all orig. printed wrappers, (1924 lacking upper cover), 8vo, together with Cambridge Mountaineering, The Journal of the Cambridge Mountaineering Club, 46 orig. issues, a broken run, 1925-26, 1932, 1934, 1936, 1938, 1940, 1944, 1946, 1948, 1949, 1951-85, 1987 & 1990, b&w illusts. from photos, all orig. printed wrappers, 1948 issue with some loss to spine, 8vo, plus Oxford Mountaineering, 26 orig. issues, a broken run, 1935, 1937, 1947, 1950, 1953-58, 1960-70, 1974-77, 1980 & 1981, b&w illusts. from photos, all orig. printed wrappers, 8vo (76)

AFRICA 294 Dundas (Anne). Beneath African Glaciers; The Humours, Tragedies and Demands of an East African Government Station as Experienced by an Official’s Wife: with Some Personal Views on Native Life and Customs, 1st ed., Witherby, 1924, b & w photo. plates, orig. cloth gilt, front board slightly bowed with some splitting to upper joint, 8vo Neate D54: “Includes an attempt in 1921 on the highest point of Kilimanjaro”.

(1) £70-100

£100-150

288 Pinnacle Club Journal, nos. 1-19, bound in four, 1924-86, b&w illusts., all orig. printed wrappers (each lacking rear cover), bound in recent cloth gilt, with duplicates of nos. 1-16, all in orig. printed wrappers, 8vo (19)

295 Dutton (E.A.T.). Kenya Mountain, with an introduction by Hilaire Belloc, new ed., 1930, b&w plts. after photos, folding maps at end (loose), orig. cloth gilt, sl. rubbed, 4to, together with Stuart-Watt (Eva), Africa’s Dome of Mystery: Comprising the first descriptive history of the Wachagga People of Kilimanjaro ..., 1st ed., [1930], colour frontis., b&w plts., folding map at end, some spotting to first and last few leaves, orig. blue cloth gilt, rubbed, 4to, plus Kingsley (Mary H.), Travels in West Africa, Congo Francais, Corisco and Cameroons, 2nd ed., abridged, 1897, b&w plts. after photos, orig. maroon cloth gilt, rubbed, 8vo, and Wollaston (A. F. R.), From Ruwenzori to the Congo, A Naturalist’s Journey across Africa, 1st ed., 1908, b&w plts. after photos, folding map at end, one or two plts. loose, ex-library copy, with some light markings, t.e.g., orig. green cloth gilt, rubbed and some fraying to upper joint and extrems., 8vo, plus Letters and Diaries of A. F. R. Wollaston, 1st ed., Cambridge, 1933, b&w plts., orig. blue cloth, rubbed, 8vo, and other African travel and mountaineering, including W. J. W. Roome, Tramping Through Africa, 1st ed., 1930, Carveth Wells, Light on the Dark Continent, 1st ed., 1933, Walter B. Harris, Tafilet, The Narrative of a Journey of Exploration in the Atlas Mountains and the Oases of the North-West Sahara, 1st ed., 1895 (ex-library copy bound in library cloth), In Coldest Africa, 1st US ed., 1931 & Kapoot, The Narrative of a Journey from Leningrad to Mount Arrarat, 1st ed., 1934, Jose Burman, A Peak to Climb, The Story of South African Mountaineering, 1st ed., Capetown, 1966 (ex-library copy), etc., mostly orig. cloth, many in d.j.s., including some large format, 8vo/4to

£100-150

289 Rucksack Club Journal, vols. 1-18, pub. Manchester, 19071976, num. b&w plts., vols. 1-5 orig. cloth gilt, remainder recent cloth gilt, 8vo, together with The Rucksack Club Journal, 21 orig. issues, a near-consecutive run, 1980-2005, col. and b&w illusts., all orig. col. pict. wrappers, 8vo (39)

£100-150

290 Scottish Mountaineering Club Journal, vols. 1-32, pub.

Edinburgh, 1891-1980, b&w plts., folding maps, mixed bindings, contemp. speckled half calf, recent cloth gilt, etc., 8vo, together with eight orig. issues, nos. 175-180, 184 & 185, 1984-1994 & three index vols.

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£400-600

291 Wayfarers’ Journal, nos. 1-17, a run, ed. B. C. Alferoff, 192896, b&w illusts. and maps, orig. printed wrappers, some wear to spines, small piece missing to upper cover of no. 12, 8vo, together with the Wayfarers’ Club List of Books, Maps and Lantern Slides in Library, November, 1934 (18)

£80-120

(approx. 70)

292 Wayfarers’ Journal, nos. 1-17, a run, ed. B. C. Alferoff, 192896, b&w illusts. and maps, nos. 1 & 8 with covers detached from text block, orig. printed wrappers, some wear to spines (two with some loss), 8vo, together with Wayfarers’ Club Bulletin, 1942 (18)

296 Filippi (Filippo de). Ruwenzori. An Account of the Expedition of H.R.H. Prince Luigi Amedeo of Savoy, Duke of the Abruzzi, [translated from the Italian by Caroline de Filippi], London, Constable & Co. Ltd., 1908, col. frontis., five folding panoramas, numerous b & w illusts. from photos [by Vittoria Sella], five folding maps, t.e.g., remainder rough-trimmed, orig. cloth, lettered in gilt, a little rubbed and faded on spine with minor wear to head and foot, 4to

£80-120

293 Yorkshire Ramblers’ Club Journal, vols. 1-11, pub. Leeds, 1902-79, b&w illusts., hinges broken to vol. 1, orig. cloth/recent cloth gilt, rubbed, 8vo (11)

£200-300

Neate F27. Classic reference work on this tropical range; the expedition succeeded in climbing all the principle peaks.

(1) £150-200

£150-200

Lot 296

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297 Filippi (Filippo de). Ruwenzori. An Account of the Expedition of H.R.H. Prince Luigi Amedeo of Savoy, Duke of the Abruzzi, [translated from the Italian by Caroline de Filippi], London, Constable & Co. Ltd., 1908, col. frontis., five folding panoramas, numerous b & w illusts. from photos [by Vittorio Sella], five folding maps, t.e.g., remainder rough-trimmed, contemp. cloth gilt, a little rubbed and minor wear to extremities, 4to Neate F27. Classic reference work on this tropical range; the expedition succeeded in climbing all the principle peaks.

(1) £150-200

298 Harris (Walter B.). Tafilet: The Narrative of a Journey of Exploration in the Atlas Mountains and the Oases of the North-West Sahara, 1st ed., Edinburgh, 1895, numerous b & w plates, folding map, orig. cloth, rubbed and marked, together with Thomson (Joseph), Travels in the Atlas and Southern Morocco, 1st US ed., New York, 1889, two folding maps, numerous b & w illusts, orig. cloth gilt, slightly rubbed, and Hooker (Joseph Dalton & Ball, John), Journal of a Tour in Marocco and the Great Atlas, 1st ed., 1878, b & w wood engraved plates including folding panoramic frontis. and cross section diagram (cleanly split along fold), folding map to rear with repaired tear, contemp. half roan, upper cover neardetached, all 8vo Neate H43; T24 (UK edition); H109.

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£150-200

299 Meyer (Dr. Hans). Across East African Glaciers. An Account of the First Ascent of Kilimanjaro, Translated from the German by E.H.S. Calder, half-title, mounted chromo. frontis. with tissue guard, eight mounted photos, twelve photogravures (margins browned), three folding maps, wood-engs. to text, t.e.g., orig. pict. cloth, rubbed and faded on spine, large 8vo Neate M92. ‘First undisputed ascent of Kibo Peak’.

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£400-600

303 Chamberlain (Allen). The Annals of the Grand Monadnock, 1st ed., Concord, 1936, folding maps, b&w illusts. after photos, orig. green cloth, some surface marks, together with Alley (Felix E.), Random Thoughts and the Musings of a Mountaineer, 1st ed., 1941, b&w plts., signed by the author to front endpaper, orig. blue cloth gilt, a little rubbed and some light dampmarking to fore-edges, plus Yard (Robert Sterling), The Book of the National Parks, 1st ed., New York, 1919, b&w illusts. after photos, orig. cloth, a little rubbed, and Jeffers (Le Roy), The Call of the Mountains, Rambles Among the Mountains and Canyons of the United States and Canada, 1st ed., 1923, colour frontis., b&w plts. after photos, orig. cloth, rubbed, plus other early to mid 20th century publications on American mountaineering, including Laura Thornborough, The Great Smoky Mountains, 2nd impression, 1937, b&w plts. and illusts., (author’s signed presentation inscription to half-title), C. E. Rusk, Tales of a Western Mountaineer, 1st ed., 1924, Margaret W. Morley, The Carolina Mountains, 1st ed., 1913, Roderick Peattie, The Incurable Romantic, 1st ed., 1941, and other works by Peattie, etc., all orig. cloth, 8vo (21)

304 Clementi (Mrs Cecil). Through British Guiana to the Summit of Roraima, 1st ed., 1920, folding map, numerous b & w photo. plates, orig. cloth gilt, slightly rubbed, 8vo, (Neate C79), together with Earle (John), The Springs of Enchantment: Climbing and Exploration in Patagonia, 1st ed., 1981, b & w plates, orig. cloth in dust-wrapper, 8vo, plus Kogan (Georges & Leininger, Nicole), The Ascent of Alpamayo: An Account of the Franco-Belgian Expedition to the Cordillera Blanca in the High Andes, 1st ed., 1954, b & w plates, orig. cloth in slightly chipped dust-wrapper, (Neate K40), plus Azema (M.A.), The Conquest of FitzRoy, 1st ed., 1957, b & w plates, orig. cloth in chipped and frayed dust-wrapper, (Neate A78), plus Snailham (Richard), Sangay Survived: The Story of the Ecuador Volcano Disaster, 1st ed., 1978, signed to title, orig. cloth in dustwrapper, plus other mountaineering books relating to South America, all 8vo

300 Oliver (William Dudley). Crags and Craters. Rambles in the Island of Réunion, 1st ed., 1896, photogravure frontis., twenty-six b & w illusts. from photos by the author, folding map at rear, navy blue school prize binding by Bickers & Son, gilt-dec. spine with raised bands and contrasting title label, sl. rubbed, 8vo Neate O10. Uncommon. Réunion is a French island with a population of about 800,000 located in the Indian Ocean, east of Madagascar, about 200 kilometres south west of Mauritius, the nearest island. Includes climbs on the Piton des Neiges, Salazes, etc.

(1) £70-100

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301 Adams (Ansel). Yosemite and the Sierra Nevada, Photographs

by Ansel Adams, 1st ed., 1948, b&w plts., orig. cloth, a little rubbed, 4to, together with Ansel Adams, Letters and Images, 1916-1984, ed.

Mary Street Alinder and Andrea Gray Stillman, 1st ed., 1988, b&w illusts., orig. cloth in d.j., spine sunned, 4to, plus Rowell (Galen A., ed.), Mountain Light, In Search of the Dynamic Landscape, 1st ed., 1986, numerous colour illusts. after photos, orig. cloth in d.j., 4to, VG, and other photographic publications on American mountain scenery, all 20th century publications, mostly orig. cloth in d.j.s, 4to/folio £150-200

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302 Browne (Belmore). The Conquest of Mount McKinley. The Story of Three Expeditions through the Alaskan Wilderness to Mount McKinley, North America’s Highest and Most Inaccessible Mountain, 1st ed., New York, G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1913, colour frontis., b&w plts. after photos, folding map at end, final few leaves of main text with a little insect damage to upper inner margin, with sl. loss (not affecting text), orig. cloth gilt, rubbed and a little fraying to extrems., some light discolouration, 8vo Neate B191.

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£150-200

305 Coleman (A. P.). The Canadian Rockies, New and Old Trails, 1st ed., Toronto, 1912, b&w plts., some spotting to fore-edges, t.e.g., orig. pictorial blue cloth, sl. rubbed, (Neate C90), together with Outram (James), In the Heart of the Canadian Rockies, 1st ed., New York, 1923, b&w plts. and illusts., orig. pictorial cloth gilt, rubbed, (Neate O20), plus White (Stewart Edward), The Mountains, 1st ed., Toronto, 1904, colour frontis., b&w plts., t.e.g., orig. pictorial cloth, rubbed and spine sunned, and Wilcox (Walter Dwight), The Rockies of Canada, 3rd ed., New York, 1909, b&w plts. after photos, t.e.g., orig. cloth, rubbed and some light soiling, plus others on the Rocky Mountains, including Hornaday & Phillips, Camp-fires in the Canadian Rockies, 1st ed., 1906, (Neate H111), Enos A. Mills, The Spell of the Rockies/Wildlife on the Rockies/The Rocky Mountain Wonderland, 1911/1909/1915 respec., Hildegarde Hawthorne and Esther Burnell Mills, Enos Mills of the Rockies, 1st ed., Boston, 1935, etc., including several signed, mostly orig. cloth, some in d.j.s., mostly 8vo

THE AMERICAS

(approx. 50)

£150-200

£100-150

72

£100-150

309 Drake (Samuel Adams). The Heart of the White Mountains.

Their Legend and Scenery, 1st ed., 1882, wood-engraved illustrations, three maps, a few light spots, a.e.g., original pictorial cloth, edges rubbed, 4to, together with Chronicles of the White Mountains, by Frederick W. Kilbourne, 1st ed., Boston & New York, 1916, b & w illustrations, map endpapers, front free endpaper browned, joints and edges rubbed, 8vo, with four others related including Thomas Starr King’s The White Hills. Their Legends, Landscape, and Poetry, 1887 and John Anderson and Stears Morse’s The Book of the White Mountains, 1930 Neate D48.

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310 Dunn (Robert). The Shameless Diary of an Explorer, 1st ed., New York, 1907, b&w plts. after photos, orig. cloth gilt, rubbed and some marks with spines lightly faded, (Neate D55), together with Thorington (J. Monroe), The Purcell Range of British Colombia [and] A Survey of Early American Ascents in the Alps in the Nineteenth Century, pub. American Alpine Club, 1946/43 respec., b&w illusts. after photos., maps, etc., orig. cloth, sl. rubbed, (first Thorington title Neate T28), plus Cross (Roselle Theodore), My Mountains, 1st ed., Boston, 1921, numerous b&w illusts. after photos, inscribed by the author to front endpaper, orig. blue cloth gilt, very sl. rubbed, and Curtis (Olin Alfred), The Mountains and Other Nature Sketches, New York & Cincinnati, Abingdon Press, 1920, t.e.g., orig. bound cloth gilt, a little rubbed, limited edition 576/1000, all 8vo

306 Conway (William Martin). The Bolivian Andes; A Record of Climbing & Exploration in the Cordillera Real in the Years 1898 and 1900, London & NY: Harper, 1901, b & w photographic illusts., t.e.g. remainder untrimmed, orig. cloth gilt, slightly rubbed to head and foot of spine, 8vo

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Neate F37.

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307 Conway (Martin). Aconcagua and Tierra del Fuego. A Book of Climbing, Travel and Exploration, 1st ed., 1902, folding map, b & w plates, a few spots, lacking front endpaper, original red cloth, spine faded, 8vo

£100-150

312 Freeman (Lewis R.). On the Roof the Rockies, The Great Colombia Icefield of the Canadian Rockies, 1st ed., Toronto, 1925, b&w plts. after photos, orig. pictorial blue cloth gilt, (generally in bright condition), in d.j., large 8vo, (Neate F60), together with Burpee (Lawrence J.), Among the Canadian Alps, 1st ed., Toronto, 1918, colour frontis., b&w plts., orig. cloth gilt, very sl. rubbed, plus Chapman (Wendell and Lucie), Wilderness Wanderers, Adventures Among Wild Animals in Rocky Mountain Solitudes, 1st ed., New York, 1937, b&w plts. after photos, orig. cloth with mounted photo illust. to upper cover, lightly soiled, large 8vo, and others on the Rocky Mountains, including Walter Prichard Eaton, Skyline Camps, A Notebook of a Wanderer in our Northwestern Mountains, 1st ed., 1922, Walter J. Phillips & Frederick Niven, Colour in the Canadian Rockies, 1st ed., Toronto, 1947, Eric Thane, The Majestic Land, 1st ed., 1950, plus several Canadian Pacific Railway pictorial souvenir books, etc., mostly orig. cloth, some in d.j.s, 8vo/4to

£100-150

308 Cumming (C.F. Gordon). Granite Crags, 1st ed., pub. William Blackwood and Sons, 1884, eight b&w plts., and folding map at end, some marks to frontis. and prelims., light spotting to final few leaves, contemp. brown cloth gilt, rubbed, together with Chapin (Frederick H.), Moutaineering in Colorado, The Peaks about Estes Park, 2nd ed., pub. Sampson Low, 1890, b&w photogravure frontis. and plts., b&w photo illusts. to text, t.e.g., orig. pictorial green cloth gilt, sl. rubbed, 8vo, (Neate C26), plus Bowles (Samuel), The Switzerland of America, A Summer Vacation in the Parks and Mountains of Colorado, Springfield, Mass., etc., 1869, orig. cloth gilt, sl. rubbed, small 8vo, and France (L.B.) Mountain Trails and Parks in Colorado, 1st ed., Denver, 1887, b & w wood eng. vignette illusts. to text, orig. brown cloth gilt, sl. rubbed, plus four others viz.

Edwin Swift Balch, Mountain Exploration, Bulletin of the Geographical Club of Philadelphia, January 1893, with author’s presentation inscription, John Bigelow, Memoir of the Life and Public Services of John Charles Fremont, New York, 1856, James Richardson, ed., Wonders of the Yellowstone Region in the Rocky Mountains, 1874 & Ernest Ingersoll, The Crest of the Continent: A Record of a Summers Ramble in the Rocky Mountains and Beyond, 36th ed., Chicago, 1889, all orig. cloth (except first title rebound in later cloth), rubbed and some marks with a little fraying to extrems., 8vo (8)

£100-150

311 Fitzgerald (E.A.). The Highest Andes. A Record of the First Ascent of Aconcagua and Tupungato in Argentina, and the Exploration of the Surrounding Valleys, 1st ed., 1899, two folding colour maps at end, b & w plates, occasional spotting, t.e.g., original red cloth gilt, spine faded, a few stains, 8vo

Neate C102. The first major climbing expedition to the area. Conway served as president of the Alpine Club from 1902-04.

(1) £100-150

Neate C99.

(1)

£100-150

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£150-200

73

£100-150

313 Hutchings (J.M.). In the Heart of the Sierras. The Yo Semite Valley, both Historical and Descriptive..., 1st ed., 1886, numerous b&w plts. after photos, folding map, b&w illusts. to text, etc., orig. pictorial cloth gilt, rubbed and some marks to spine and edges, 8vo, (Neate H142), together with King (Clarence), Mountaineering in the Sierra Nevada, 6th ed., Boston, 1879, two folding colour maps, orig. green cloth gilt, rubbed and some marks, 8vo, (Neate K21), plus Memoirs, The Helmet of Mambrino, 1st ed., 1904, t.e.g., remainder untrimmed, orig. qtr. vellum gilt, rubbed and some marks, 8vo, and Farquhar (Francis P.), History of the Sierra Nevada, pub. University of California Press, 1965, b&w illusts., orig. blue cloth in rubbed and sl. chipped d.j., large 8vo, (Neate F03), plus others on the Sierra Nevada and Mountains in California, including Charles Francis Saunders, The Southern Sierras of California, 1st ed., 1933, Francis P. Farquhar, ed., Up and Down California in 1860-1864, The Journal of William H. Brewer, Newhaven, 1930, (Neate B156), William Harland Boyd, ed., A Climb Through History: From Caliente to Mount Whitney, in 1889, Havilah Press, 1973, A. H. Barnes, Our Greatest Mountain and Alpine Wonders, National Park Art Series, No. 2, 1921, etc.

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317 Muir (John). The Mountains of California, 1st ed., New York, 1894, b & w illustrations, a few spots, contemporary presentation inscription, t.e.g., original cloth gilt, spine a little darkened with spots, 8vo, together with The Yosemite, 1st ed., 1912, three folding maps, b & w illustrations, a few spots, bookplate and portraits of Muir pasted at front, t.e.g., original pictorial cloth gilt, edges rubbed, 8vo, with six others by/about Muir including Alaska Days With John Muir,

by S. Hall Young, 1915 (lacking front endpaper), and Steep Trails, 1918 Neate M166 & M171. “Muir was a Scottish-born naturalist who emigrated to the United States in early boyhood. He visited Alaska and the Arctic and was very active in California. Founder and President of the Sierra Club; also a founder member of the A.A.C... he was largely responsible for the establishment of Yosemite and other areas as national parks.” (Neate M170).

(8) £150-200

318 Munday (Don). The Unknown Mountain, 1st ed., 1948, b&w plts. after photos, orig. cloth in d.j., rubbed and a little frayed, (Neate 182), together with Moore (Terris), Mt. McKinley: The Pioneer Climbs, 1st ed., University of Alaska Press, 1967, b&w illusts., etc., orig. cloth in d.j., (Neate M140), plus Bueler (William M.), Roof the Rockies. A History of Mountaineering in Colorado, 1st ed., 1974, b&w illusts. after photos, orig. cloth in d.j.,(Neate B208), and Ashworth (William), The Wallowas, Coming of Age in the Wilderness, 1st ed., 1978, orig. cloth in d.j., plus others on American mountaineering, all 20th c., including James R. Hare, ed., Hiking the Appalachian Trail, 2 vols., 1977, Michael Frome, Strangers in High Places, The Story of the Great Smoky Mountains, 1966, Phil Dowling, The Mountaineers, Famous Climbers in Canada, 1979, etc., mostly orig. cloth in d.j.s, 8vo and 4to

£150-200

314 Karr (Heywood W. Seton). Shores and Alps of Alaska, 1st ed., London, 1887, half-title, wood-engs., four maps, including folding map at rear (partly split), 32 pp. publisher’s catalogue at end, several indelible ex-library stamps to text, orig. pict. cloth gilt, rubbed and faded, together with Schwatka (Frederick), A Summer in Alaska. A Popular Account of the Travels of an Alaska Exploring Expedition Along the Great Yukon River, from its Source to its Mouth, in the British North-West Territory, and in the Territory of Alaska, pub. St. Louis, 1893, port. frontis., wood-engs., orig. pict. cloth gilt, rubbed and faded, both 8vo

(approx. 100)

£200-300

Neate K03 & S30 respectively. Seton Karr was a British Naval Officer responsible for the first reconnaissance of Mount St. Elias.

(2) £100-150

315 Larden (Walter). Argentine Plains and Andine Glaciers, Life on an Estancia, and an Exhibition into the Andes, 1st ed., pub. T. Fisher Unwin, 1911, b&w plts. after photos, some light spotting to foreedges, orig. maroon cloth, spine sunned, (Neate L10), together with Bryce (James), South America, Observations and Impressions, new ed. corrected and revised, New York, 1914, orig. maroon cloth gilt, a little rubbed, plus Cressy-Marcks (Violet O.), Up the Amazon and Over the Andes, 1st ed., 1932, b&w plts. after photos, lacks front endpaper, orig. cloth, rubbed and some light soiling, and Bowman (Isaiah), The Andes of Southern Peru, Geographical Reconnaissance along the Seventy-Third Meridian, pub. American Geographical Society, 1916, folding maps and diagrams, etc., b&w illusts. after photos, orig. cloth, soiled and frayed at extrems., some damp cockling to front cover, plus others on mountains and mountaineering in South America, including Margaret Griffin, Tiquimani, 1st ed., 1965, with presentation inscription by the author, (Neate G73), Hans Kinzl & Erwin Schneider, Cordillera Blanca (Peru), 1950, (Neate K28), etc., mostly orig. cloth, many in d.j.s, 8vo & 4to (approx. 40)

£100-150

316 Marcoy (Paul). A Journey Across South America from the Pacific Ocean to the Atlantic Ocean, 2 vols., 1873, eleven col.printed single-page maps (correct as list), numerous wood-engs., some spotting and marginal dampstains, contemp. dark green half morocco, gilt-dec. spines with raised bands, rubbed and scuffed, 4to (2)

319 Palmer (Howard). Mountaineering and Exploration in the Selkirks. A Record of Pioneer Work Among the Canadian Alps, 19081912, 1st ed., Putnam’s, New York & London, 1914, photogravure frontis. with printed tissue guard, numerous b & w illusts. from photos, two folding maps, 4 p. publisher’s ads at rear, t.e.g., orig. cloth gilt, a trifle rubbed and a few minor marks, 8vo

£100-150

Neate P07. The principle work on the Selkirk range.

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74

£70-100

322 Spring (Bob & Ira). High Adventure: Mountain Photography, Seattle: Superior Publishing Company, 1951, b & w photo. illusts throughout, inner joint cracked, inscribed “Best wishes, The Springs: Norma, Bob, Patricia, Ira”, orig. cloth, dust-wrapper chipped and frayed, folio, (Neate S153) together with High Worlds of the Mountain Climber, Seattle, 1959, colour and b & w photo. plates, limited edition number 1385 of 2000 copies signed by Harvey Manning and Bob & Ira Spring, orig. cloth in slightly chipped and creased dust-jacket, (Neate S154) plus North Cascades National Park, Superior Publishing Co., Seattle, 1969, numerous col. and b & w illusts. from photos, orig. cloth in sl. rubbed d.j., slim 4to, (Neate S155), and Mt. Rainier: A Washington Camera Adventure, Seattle, 1955, colour and b & w photo. plates, finely preserved orig. printed wrappers, contained in orig. printed card box (some splits and peeling), and one other by Bob & Ira Spring, Alaska (1965)

320 Peck (Annie S.). High Mountain Climbing in Peru & Bolivia. A Search for the Apex of America Including the Conquest of Huascaran, with some Observations on the Country and People Below, 1st UK ed., 1912, portrait frontispiece, half-tone illustrations, marginal waterstain and some spotting, press cuttings at front, ink annotation to half title, t.e.g., later cloth with original upper cover illustration relaid, a few stains, 8vo Neate P36. 1st UK edition of A Search for the Apex of America, first published in New York in 1911. Peck climbed the Matterhorn and was a founder member of American Alpine Club.

(1) £70-100

321 Rowell (Gallen A.). The Vertical World of Yosemite. A Collection of Writings and Photographs on Rock Climbing in Yosemite, 1974, (Neate R85); In the Throne Room of the Mountain Gods, 1977 (Neate R82); High and Wild. A Mountaineer’s World, 1979 (Neate R81); Many People Come, Looking, Looking, 1980 (Neate R83); Mountains of the Middle Kingdom. Exploring the High Peaks of China and Tibet, 1985 (Neate R84); Mountain Light. In Search of the Dynamic Landscape, 1986; Alaska, Images of the Country, 1986 (Neate R80); The Art of Adventure, 1989; My Tibet. The Dalai Lama, 1990; Poles Apart. Parallel Visions of the Arctic and Antarctic, 1995, together 10 vols., num. col. and b&w illusts., all orig. cloth in d.j., VG condition, 4to (10)

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£100-150

323 Stevens (W. Bertrand). Victorious Mountaineer. A Memoir of Harry Peirce, Nichols, 1850-1940, Louisville, The Cloister Press, 1943, author’s signed presentation inscription to front endpaper, bookplate of Vernon Howard, orig. cloth, sl. rubbed, small 8vo, (Neate S168), together with Hazard (Joseph T.), Snow Sentinels of the Pacific Northwest, 1st ed., Seattle, 1932, b&w plts. after photos, orig. cloth, sl. rubbed, 8vo, (Neate H60), plus McNeil (Fred H.), Wy’east ‘The Mountain’, A Chronicle of Mount Hood, 1st ed., Portland, 1937, b&w plts. after photo, orig. cloth in d.j., sl. rubbed, and Jackson (Clarence S., & Marshall, Lawrence W.), Quest of the Snowy Cross, 1st ed., University of Denver Press, 1952, presentation inscription by Lawrence W. Marshall to verso of front endpaper, orig. cloth in somewhat worn d.j., all 8vo, plus other American mountaineering interest, various, all 20th century publications, including Leonard H. Robins, Mountains and Men (signed), Joseph T. Hazard, Pacific Crest Trails (signed), (Neate H59), H. Warren Lewis, You’re Standing On My Fingers!, 1969, Edward A. Rossit, Northwest Mountaineering, 1965, (Neate R75), Bradford Washburn, Bradford on Mt. Washington, 1928, Harry W. Hickman and Earl J. Larrison, Pilchuck, The Life of a Mountain, 1949, etc., mostly orig. cloth, many in d.j.s, mainly 8vo

£100-150

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£150-200

324 Stuck (Hudson). The Ascent of Denali (Mount McKinley), A Narrative of the First Complete Ascent of the Highest Peak in North America, 1st English ed., pub. Bickers & Son, 1914, b&w photogravure plates, some pencil underlining, early ownership signature to title and front pastedown, orig. cloth, a little rubbed and faded to spine and some edges, 8vo, (Neate S176), together with Steel (W. G.), The Mountains of Oregon, 1st ed., Portland, 1890, b&w plts., orig. decorative cloth gilt, a little rubbed and some light soiling, 8vo, (Neate S160), plus Hanly (J. Frank), A Day in the Siskiyous. An Oregon Extravaganza, 1st ed., 1916, colour plts., orig. pictorial dark green cloth gilt, very sl. rubbed, 4to, and others related, including Dallas Lore Sharp, Where Rolls the Oregon, 1st ed., 1914 (with author’s presentation inscription to front endpaper), F. W. Schmoe, Our Greatest Mountain, A Handbook for Mount Rainier National Park, 1st ed., 1925, (Neate S19), Edmond S. Meany, Mount Rainier, A Record of Exploration, 1st ed., 1916 [but later], (Neate M77), etc., some in d.j.s, mostly 8vo (10)

Lot 322

75

£100-150

325 Thorington (J. Monroe). The Glittering Mountains of Canada.

A Record of Exploration and Pioneer Ascents in the Canadian Rockies 1914-1924, Philadelphia, 1925, four folding panoramas, six maps, illustrations, light browning to endpapers, original blue cloth, a little rubbed, 8vo, limited edition, 240/1500 signed by the author, together with Kain (Conrad), Where the Clouds Can Go, Edited with Additional Chapters by J. Monroe Thorington, 1st ed., American Alpine Club, New York, 1935, b & w illustrations, bookplates of J. Monroe Thorington and the Association of British Members of the Swiss Alpine Club, original blue cloth, spine faded, 8vo Neate T26 & K01.

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£200-300

326 Walkinshaw (Robert). On Puget Sound, 1st ed., New York, 1929, b & w illustrations by Jeanie Walter Walkinshaw, a few spots, original green cloth, slightly rubbed at spine ends, 8vo, presentation copy, inscribed to Gertrude Gringrich from the author and illustrator, with a 2 pp. autograph letter to Gringrich from Walkinshaw thanking her for a letter (envelope sellotaped to front pastedown), together with Old Yukon. Tales-Trails-and Trials, by Hon. James Wickersham, 1st ed., Washington, 1938, map frontispiece, b & w illustrations, light toning, original blue cloth, edges lightly rubbed, 8vo (Neate W69) (2)

328 Whymper (Edward). Travels Amongst the Great Andes of the Equator, 2 vols. (inc.Supplementary Appendix), John Murray, 189192, numerous b & w plates and illusts, full-page map of Equador present, lacking the three folding maps (usually contained in separate volume), orig. quarter morocco, gilt-dec. spines, rubbed and a little faded, 8vo Neate W66: “This book was the first of the few great classics of South American mountaineering literature...It remains essential reading for anyone visiting Equador”. Special Edition Subscribers copy, numbered 46, with Edward Whymper printed signature.

(2) £200-300

£100-150

327 Wheeler (Arthur Oliver). The Selkirk Range, 2 vols including map box, 1st ed., Ottawa, 1905, fourteen folding maps, numerous b & w photo. plates, orig. cloth gilt, slightly rubbed and marked, map volume a little worn with some splits to internal joints (not affecting maps), 4to, together with The Selkirk Mountains: A Guide for Mountain Climbers and Pilgrims, Winnipeg, 1912, two folding panoramas, six folding maps and tables, numerous b & w photo. illusts, loosely inserted accompanying letter from the Alpine Club of Canada, orig. printed wrappers retained in later cloth gilt, 8vo

329 Whymper (Edward). Travels Amongst the Great Andes of the Equator, 2 vols. (including Supplementary Appendix), 1892-91, numerous wood-engs., full-page map of Ecuador, folding plan, two folding maps (one contained in rear pocket), all correct as list, orig. gilt-dec. cloth, rubbed and soiled, darkened on spines and some minor wear to extremities, 8vo Neate W66.

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Neate W47, Q851. Wheeler surveyed large tracts of Western Canada and was one of the founders, and first president of, the Alpine Club of Canada.

(3) £100-150

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£100-150

332 Conway (Sir William Martin). The First Crossing of Spitsbergen. Being an Account of an Inland Journey of Exploration and Survey, with Descriptions of Several Mountain Ascents, of Boat Expeditions in Ice Fjord, of a Voyage to North-East-Land, the Seven Islands, Down Hinloopen Strait, Nearly to Wiches Land, and into most of the Fjords of Spitsbergen, and of an Almost Complete Circumnavigation of the Main Island, with Contributions by J.W. Gregory, A. Trevor-Battye, and E.J. Garwood, 1st ed., 1897, eight col. plts., two folding maps, numerous b & w illusts. from photos and sketches, t.e.g., remainder rough-trimmed, orig. two-tone cloth gilt, rubbed on spine, large 8vo Neate C105.

(1)

£70-100

330 Williams (John H.). The Mountain that was ‘God’. Being a Little Book about the Great Peak Which the Indians Named ‘Tacoma’ but which is Officially Called ‘Rainier’, New York, London & Tacoma, 1911, together with The Guardians of the Columbia. Mount Hood, Mount Adams and Mount St. Helens, Tacoma, 1912, and Yosemite and its High Sierra, Tacoma & San Francisco, 1914, col. plts., numerous b & w illusts. from photos, folding map to first and third titles, all orig. printed cloth with onlaid pict. panel to upper cover, a little rubbed and some minor wear to extremities, slim 8vo The third volume signed and inscribed by the author on flyleaf. Neate W85, W84 and W86.

(3) £100-150

POLAR EXPLORATION 333 Conway (William Martin). No Man’s Land; A History of Spitsbergen from its Discovery in 1596 to the Beginning of the Scientific Exploration of the Country, 1st ed., Cambridge University Press, 1906, 22 b & w plates and maps, two folding maps contained in pocket at rear, partly unopened, Royal Navy library stamp to pastedown, orig. green cloth gilt, a little fraying to head and foot fo spine, 8vo

331 Chapman (F. Spencer). Northern Lights. The Official Account of the British Arctic Air-Route Expedition 1930-1931, 1st ed., 1932, b & w illusts. from photos, folding maps, orig. cloth in frayed and torn d.j., tall 8vo, together with Watkins’ Last Expedition, by F. Spencer Chapman, 1st ed., 1934, b & w illusts. from photos, folding map at rear, orig. cloth in d.j. (d.j. restored at head and foot of spine and corners), 8vo, plus Sorge (Ernst), With Plane, Boat, & Camera in Greenland. An Account of the Universal Dr. Fanck Greenland Expedition, 1935, folding panoramic frontis. and numerous illusts. from photos all printed in blue tint, some minor scattered spotting, orig. cloth gilt, rubbed and some wear to head and foot of spine, 8vo, and First Over Everest. The Houston-Mount Everest Expedition, 1933, by Air-Commodore P.F.M. Fellowes, [and others], 4th imp., December 1933, port. frontis. of Lady Houston, numerous b & w illusts. from photos, folding maps, 3D glasses contained in rear pocket, orig. cloth, faded on spine and some wear, 8vo, and Fuchs (Sir Vivian and Hilary, Sir Edmund), The Crossing of Antarctica.

The Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition, 1955-58, autograph label pasted to dedication leaf, signed by Fuchs, col. and b & w illusts. from photos, orig. cloth in d.j., 8vo, and others related (12)

Neate C107.

(1)

£150-200

334 Conway (William Martin). With Ski & Sledge over Arctic Glaciers, 1st US ed., NY, 1898, b & w plates and illusts, folding map of Spitsbergen, t.e.g. remainder rough-trimmed, orig. cloth gilt, a little fraying at head of spine, 8vo Neate C108 (UK edition). Sequel to The First Crossing of Spitsbergen. Exlibrary copy with markings to title.

(1) £100-150

335 Cook (Fredrick A.). To the Top of the Continent. Discovery, Exploration and Adventure in Sub-arctic Alaska. The First Ascent of Mt. McKinley, 1903-1906, 1st ed., 1909, col. frontis., b & w illusts. from photos and drawings, sketch maps, orig. cloth gilt, rubbed and faded on spine, 8vo, together with Griggs (Robert F.), The Valley of Ten Thousand Smokes, pub. National Geographic Society, Washington, 1922, folding panoramic frontis., numerous col. and b & w illusts. from photos, maps and diags., orig. gilt-dec. cloth, a little faded and rubbed on spine, tall 8vo, plus Hubbard (Bernard R.), Alaskan Odyssey, 1st ed., 1952, port. frontis., b & w illusts. from photos, map endpapers, orig. boards in frayed and torn d.j., 8vo, and others

£150-200

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£100-150

ASIA 338 Ahluwalia (Major H.P.S.). Eternal Himalaya, 1st ed., New Delhi, 1982, b & w plates, orig. cloth in dust-wrapper, folio, together with Dias (Major John), The Everest Adventure: Story of the Second Indian Expedition, 1st ed., Delhi, 1965, colour and b & w illusts, inscribed by H.C. Sarin (President of the Indian Mountaineering Foundation), orig. cloth, dust-wrapper with some edge fraying, folio, and Kummar (Major K.I.), Expedition Kinner Kailash, New Delhi, 1981, colour and b & w illusts, orig. cloth in VG dust-wrapper, 8vo, plus Singh (Brigadier Gyan), Lure of Everest: Story of the First Indian Expedition, 1st ed., New Delhi, 1961, signed presentation copy from author to General Chowdrey, b & w illusts, orig. cloth in slightly creased dust-wrapper, 8vo, plus Gurang (Harka), Annapurna to Dhaulagiri: A Decade of Mountaineering in Nepal Himalaya 1950-1960, 1st ed., Kathmandu, 1968, colour plates, folding map, loosely inserted slip bearing author’s signature, hardback leatherette gilt retaining orig. printed wrappers, 8vo, and Srichand (L. Radheylall), Mussoorie Views, Landour, [1931], twelve b & w photo. plates, each with patterned tissue-guard, numbered 1865 to title, orig. printed card wrappers, a litle spotted, folio, plus Kumar (Lt. Col. N., Major H.P.S. Ahluwalia, et al), Trisul Ski Expedition, 1st ed., Delhi, 1978, b & w photo plates, orig. cloth, dustwrapper with one or two closed tears, 8vo, plus Kohli (Harish), Across the Frozen Himalaya: The Epic Winter Ski Traverse from Karakorum to Lipu Lekh, 1st ed., New Delhi, 2000, colour and b & w illusts, orig. cloth in dust-wrapper, 8vo Neate A19; D23; S77; G80; K54.

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339 Barker (Ralph). The Last Blue Mountain, 1st ed., 1959, b&w illusts. after photos, orig. cloth in d.j., a little frayed with small loss to lower edge of upper panel, (Neate B42), together with Murray (W. H.), The Story of Everest, 1st ed., 1953, b&w plts. after photos, etc., orig. cloth in rubbed and chipped d.j., plus Hunt (John), The Ascent of Everest, 1st ed., 1953, several colour and b&w plts. after photos, signed by the author to title, orig. blue cloth in rubbed and sl. chipped d.j., spine lightly faded, (Neate H135), and others on The Himalayas, including John Morris, A Winter In Nepal, 1st ed., 1963, Peter Taylor, Coopers Creek to Langtang II, 1st ed., 1964, Jim Curran, Trango, The Nameless Tower, 1st ed., 1978, (Neate C158) & K2, Triumph and Tragedy, 1st ed., 1987 (both signed), Dora H. De Beer, Yunnan, 1938, Account of a Journey in SW China, 1st ed., 1971 (signed), etc., all orig. cloth, mostly in d.j.s, 8vo

336 Filippi (Filippo de). The Ascent of Mount St. Elias, by H.R.H. Prince Luigi Amedeo di Savoia, Duke of the Abruzzi... illustrated by Vittorio Sella and Translated by Signora Linda Villari with the Author’s Supervision, 1st ed., 1900, six folding panoramas and maps at rear, including two in colour, many full-page photogravure plates, b&w illusts. after photos, t.e.g., endpapers renewed, orig. green cloth gilt, rubbed and some light overall soiling, large 8vo (1)

£200-300

£150-200

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£200-300

337 Shackleton (E.H.). The Heart of the Antarctic, Being the Story of the British Antarctic Expedition 1907-1909, with an Introduction

by Hugh Robert Mill, D.Sc., An Account of the First Journey to the South Magnetic Pole, by Professor T.W. David, F.R.S., 2 vols., 1st ed., 1909, half-titles present, photogravure frontis. to each, twelve col. plts., numerous b & w illusts. from photos, errata slip before page 1 in vol. 2, three folding maps and folding panorama contained in rear pocket of vol. 2, t.e.g., remainder rough-trimmed, recent blue cloth gilt (a few minor marks), 4to (2)

£150-200

Lot 340

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341 Collie (J. Norman). Climbing on the Himalaya and Other Mountain Ranges, 1st ed., Edinburgh, 1902, 18 b & w plates, three folding maps (one loose and torn along fold), a few light spots, t.e.g., original cloth, faint stains to covers, 8vo, together with William C. Taylor’s The Snows of Yesteryear. J. Norman Collie, 1973

340 British Everest Expedition 1953. “Some Thoughts on the Production and Delivery of Oxygen Equipment to Everest” by A.W. Bridge, August 1953, original typescript, on rectos only over 18 leaves, followed by 9 further leaves each bearing an original mounted b & w photograph of oxygen equipment, most leaves initialled by Bridge, the text preceeded by a signed introductory letter by Bridge on expedition headed-paper, with a folding 1953 edition one inch to 8 miles War Office map of Nepal attached to rear pastedown, later full cloth, 33 x 20cm

Neate C94. Includes Collie’s account of the ill-fated attempt to climb Nanga Parbat in 1895.

(2) £500-800

In this short dissertation Alfred Bridge (1902-71) describes chronologically the series of meetings held by the Everest Expedition to determine the oxygen supply, beginning on 29 August 1952. It was decided to keep to the basic design recommended by R.A.E. Farnborough, with the Admiralty agreeing to assist in supplying light alloy cylinders, on order from Reynolds Tube Co., while Normalair and Siebe, Gorman & Co. agreed to provide the oxygen equipment. Bridge records the initial stalling of progress and his own subsequent appointment, at the request of the expedition leader Sir John Hunt, to “work in the speeding up of the production and assembly of the oxygen equipment”. Bridge finally sees the last flight carrying equipment depart from RAF Lyneham on 21 March 1953 bound for Nepal, and pays great tribute to all involved in what was obviously a greatly time-pressured process.

The text includes tables of statistical data and appendices describing the responsibilities of all the parties involved in oxygen supply for the expedition, plus a sheet of erratum. Hunt pays tribute to Alfred Bridge in ‘The Ascent of Everest’ (1953): “I had secured the part-time services of Alfred Bridge, an old climbing companion of myself and some other members of the party. To those of us who knew this fine old-stager, the addition of Bridge to our helpers was a great event in the history of the expedition. His enthusiasm, his immense energy and fixity of purpose even more, his power of inspiring others to join in any enterprise in which he is engaged are quite exceptional.

I knew that Alf Bridge would never rest until our oxygen consignment was on its way. From the time he joined the active ranks of our supporters, we had no need to worry about the oxygen.”

(1) £200-300

342 Conway (William Martin). Climbing and Exploration in the Karakoram-Himalayas, 2 vols., 1st ed., 1894, half-titles present, photogravure port. frontis. to vol. 1, numerous b & w plts. and illusts. to text by A.D. McCormick, with duplicate proofs printed on Japanese silk tissue, with tissue guards captioned in gold, single ad leaf at rear of vol. 2, t.e.g., remainder rough-trimmed, orig. cloth with morocco labels to spines, 8vo Neate C103. Limited edition 110/150 (of which 125 only are for sale), signed by the author. Without the two supplementary volumes of maps and scientific reports.

(2) £400-600

343 Cumming (Constance F. Gordon). From the Hebrides to the Himalayas. A Sketch of Eighteen Months’ Wanderings in Western Isles and Eastern Highlands, 2 vols., 1st ed., 1876, wood-engraved illustrations, scattered light spotting, modern calf-backed boards, 8vo, together with In the Forbidden Land. An Account of a Journey in Tibet, Capture by the Tibetan Authorities, Imprisonment, Torture and Ultimate Release, 1st one-volume ed., 1899, portrait frontispiece, folding map, illustrations, occasional spotting, prize label, original pictorial cloth, 8vo, plus Lhasa and its Mysteries. With a Record of the Expedition of 1903-1904, by L. Austine Waddell, 1st ed., 1905, folding map, three colour plates, half-tone illustrations, library stamps at front, modern cloth, slight soiling, 8vo, with others related including Andrew Wilson’s The Abode of Snow. Observations on a Journey from Chinese Tibet to the Indian Caucasus, through the Upper Valleys of the Himalaya, 1875 and Edmund Candler’s On the Edge of the World, 1919 Lot 341

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£200-300

344 Das (Sarat Chandra). Journey to Lhasa and Central Tibet, reprint ed., Bibliotheca Himalayica, New Delhi, 1970, limited to 2000 copies, b & w illusts and folding maps, orig. cloth gilt, rubbed to extrems, 8vo, together with Kvaerne (Per), A Norwegian Traveller in Tibet, Bibliotheca Himalayica, New Delhi, 1973, limited to 2000 copies, b & w plates, orig. cloth gilt, 8vo, and Randhawa (M.S.), The Kumaon Himalayas, 1st ed., New Delhi, 1970, colour and b & w illusts, orig. cloth in VG dust-wrapper, 8vo, plus Sharma (Man Mohan), Of Gods and Glaciers: On & Around Mt. Rataban, 1st ed., New Delhi, 1979, b & w illusts, orig. cloth in VG dust-wrapper, 8vo, plus Ahluwalia (Major H.P.S.), Higher than Everest: Memoirs of a Mountaineer, reprint, 1974, inscribed by the author, b & w illusts, orig. cloth in VG dust-wrapper, 8vo, and Mordecai (David), The Himalayas: An Illustrated Summary of the World’s Highest Mountain Ranges, Calcutta, 1966, colour and b & w plates including a folding panoramic view, bound without orig. wrappers into modern cloth gilt, oblong 8vo, plus Frank Ross & Co. Ltd., Souvenir of Darjeeling, pub. Darjeeling, c.1930, colour plates, orig. printed paper wrappers, oblong 4to, and other mountaineering books printed in India, Nepal or China (22)

£100-150

345 Diemberger (Kurt). Summits and Secrets, 1st English ed., 1971, signed by author to title, b & w photo. plates, orig. cloth in VG dust-wrapper, 8vo, together with The Endless Knot: K2, Mountain of Dreams and Destiny, 1st English ed., 1991, signed to title, colour and b & w plates, orig. cloth in VG dust-wrapper, 4to, and Spirits of the Air, 1st English ed., 1994, signed to title, colour and b & w plates, orig. cloth in VG dust-wrapper, 8vo Neate D26 (first item).

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Lot 347

£70-100

346 Dunsheath (Joyce & Baillie, Eleanor). Afghan Quest, The Story of the their Abinger Afghanistan Expedition 1960, 1st ed., 1961, b&w illusts. after photos, orig. cloth in d.j., a little rubbed and price-clipped, (Neate D56), together with Underhill (Miriam), Give Me The Hills, 1st ed., 1956, four colour plates, thirty-two b&w plts., orig. cloth in d.j., a little rubbed and marked to edges, (Neate U06), plus Bauer (Paul), Himalayan Quest, The German Expeditions to Siniolchum and Nanga Parbat, 1st ed., 1938, b&w plts. after photos, orig. cloth, rubbed and marked, (Neate B61) and Evans (Charles), Kangchenjunga The Untrodden Peak, 1st ed., 1956, some colour and many b&w plts. after photos, orig. cloth in d.j., (Neate E27), plus others on mountaineering in The Himalayas, mostly later 20th c. pubs., including Antonia Peacock, No Purdh in Padam, 1st ed., 1960, Edmund Hillary, High Adventure, 1st ed., 1955, Philip Tranter, No Tigers in the Hindu Kush, 1st ed., 1968, various other titles by Edmund Hillary and Chris Bonington, etc., all orig. cloth in d.j.s, mostly 8vo (85)

£150-200

347 Eckenstein (Oscar). The Karakorams and Kashmir. An Account of a Journey, 1st ed., 1896, orig. cloth, spine lettered in gilt, rubbed and a little marked, 8vo Rare. Neate E07. Eckstein was later to become a climbing companion of Aleister Crowley, ‘the Great Beast’.

(1) £500-700

Lot 350

348 Evans (Charles). Kangchenjunga. The Untrodden Peak, 1st ed., 1956, colour and b & w illustrations, original cloth, price-clipped d.j., a little chipped and browned, 8vo

349 Evans (Charles). Kangchenjunga. The Untrodden Peak, 1st ed., 1956, colour and b & w illustrations, original cloth, d.j., one or two tears and repairs, 8vo

Neate E27. Presentation copy, inscribed to front endpaper: “All good wishes from Charles. 16.2.57” beneath an original ink sketch of Annapurna II. (1) £70-100

Neate E27. Presentation copy, inscribed to front endpaper: “All good wishes to John William Thompson, from Charles Evans, 16.12.56”, additionally signed

by George Band and Joe Brown (two other members of the expedition), plus another presentation inscription.

(1) £70-100

80

Lot 351 350 Filippi (Filippo de). The Italian Expedition to the Himalaya, Karakoram and Estern Turkestan (1913-1914), 1st English ed., 1932, half title, two colour plates, two colour maps, folding panoramas and numerous illustrations, lacking six folding panoramas and two folding maps in rear pocket, previous owner inscription to half title, modern olive half morocco, 4to Neate F25.

(1)

351 Filippi (Filippo de). Karakoram and Western Himalaya 1909.

An Account of the Expedition of H.R.H. Prince Luigi Amedeo of Savoy, Duke of the Abbruzzi, 1st ed., 2 vols. (text/plates), 1912, frontis. (light waterstaining) and 25 photogravure plates, illusts. to text, 18 folding panoramas on 17 sheets, three folding maps and list of illustrations booklet (each with Aberystwyth University Geography Dept. ink stamp), matched set bound in orig. green cloth gilt, rubbed and some wear to spine with small hole at foot, Atlas bound in orig. red cloth gilt, rubbed and faded on spine, 4to

ÂŁ300-500

Neate F26.

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81

ÂŁ600-800

352 Freshfield (Douglas W.). Travels in the Central Caucasus and Bashan Including Visits to Ararat and Tabreez and Ascents of Kasbek and Elbruz, 1st ed., 1869, half title, chromo. frontis., three folding maps, four b & w plates, scattered light spots, contemporary calf gilt, lightly rubbed, one or two stains, 8vo Neate F71.

(1)

355 Harrer (Heinrich). Seven Years in Tibet, 1st English ed., 1953, signed by the author, colour frontis., b & w illusts. from photos, orig. cloth in slightly fraying dust-wrapper, together with I Come from the Stone Age, 1st English ed., 1964, colour and b & w plates, orig. cloth in dust-wrapper, and The White Spider: The Story of the North Face of the Eiger, 1st English ed., 1965, b & w illusts, orig. cloth in dustwrapper, plus Bell (Charles), Portrait of the Dalai Lama, 1st ed., 1946, colour frontis., numerous b & w photo. plates, orig. cloth, dust-wrapper with some minor edge fraying, all 8vo, plus two others written by Harrer comprising Return to Tibet (1984) and Lost Lhasa (1992)

£150-200

Neate H38-H41.

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£70-100

356 Hedin (Sven). Through Asia, 2 vols., 1st English ed., 1898, halftitles and photogravure frontis. to each, b & w illusts. from photos, two large folding maps, some minor scattered spotting, t.e.g., remainder untrimmed, orig. cloth gilt, a trifle rubbed, 8vo (2)

£150-200

356

353 Freshfield (Douglas W.). The Exploration of the Caucasus, 2 vols., 1st ed., 1896, half-titles present, seventy-four photogravures, two other b & w plts., three folding panoramas, four folding maps including one contained in rear pocket of vol. 2, t.e.g., remainder rough-trimmed, orig. gilt-dec. cloth, rubbed and faded on spines, large 8vo

Neate H69. “Superbly illustrated account of chiefly geological expedition, which explored the area around Kailas in Tibet.”

(1) £100-150

Neate F64. Douglas William Freshfield (1845-1934), editor of the Alpine Journal, A.C. President 1893-5, one of the great mountain explorers and a leading figure in the Royal Geographical Society. He was also one of the most scholarly and sensitive of mountain writers.

(2) £400-600

358 Herrligkoffer (Karl M.). Nanga Parbat. Incorporating the Official Report of the Expedition of 1953, Translated and Additional Material Supplied by Eleanor Brockett and Anton Ehrenzweig, Forward by Brig. Sir John Hunt, 1st ed., 1954, colour and b & w illustrations, original cloth, price-clipped d.j., one or two short tears, 8vo, (Neate H73) together with The Seige of Nanga Parbat 1856-1953, by Paul Bauer, Translated from the German by R.W. Rickmers, 1st ed., 1956, illustrations, original cloth, price-clipped d.j., light edge wear, 8vo, (Neate B63) plus Himalayan Conquest. The German Expeditions to Siniolchum and Nanga Parbat, ed. Paul Bauer, Translated from the German by E.G. Hall, 1938, b & w illustrations, original cloth, d.j., a few chips and tears, 4to, with others related including Elizabeth Knowlton’s The Naked Mountain, 1933 (Neate K36) and Hermann Buhl’s Nanga Parbat Pilgrimage, 1956

354 Gray (Affleck). The Big Grey Man of Ben Macdhui, 1st ed., Impulse Books, orig. boards in sl. rubbed d.j., together with The Grey Man of Ben Macdhui and Other Abnormal Happenings, pub.

Edinburgh Psychic College, 1949, 16 pp., orig. printed wrappers, 8vo, plus Tchernine (Odette), The Snowman and Company, Foreword

by Eric Shipton, Postscript by H.W. Tilman, 1st ed., 1961, b & w illusts. from photos and two maps, orig. boards in sl. creased and chipped d.j., and Messner (Reinhold), My Quest for the Yeti.

Confronting the Himalayas’ Deepest Mystery, 1st ed. in English, St. Martin’s Press, New York, 2000, b & w illusts. from photos, orig. boards in d.j., all 8vo, and others related (12)

357

357 Heim (Arnold and August Gansser). The Throne of the Gods.

An Account of the First Swiss Expedition to the Himalayas, Translated by Eden and Cedar Paul, 1st ed., 1939, folding map contained in rear pocket, two folding panoramas, numerous illustrations, t.e.g., original green cloth, spine slightly faded, d.j., a few chips and tears, sellotape residue at head and foot, 8vo

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£70-100

82

£150-200

Lot 360

359 Hillary (Edmund). High Adventure, 1st ed., 1955, colour frontis., illustrations, original cloth, d.j., small nicks at spine head, 8vo, signed by the author, (Neate 81), together with The Ascent of Everest, by John Hunt, 1st ed., 1953, colour & b & w illustrations, original cloth, d.j., a couple of closed tears, 8vo, signed by the author on half-title, (Neate 135) plus On Climbing, by Charles Evans, 1st ed., 1956, b & w illustrations, original cloth, d.j., a few chips and tears, 8vo, inscribed by the author on front endpaper, with four others including W.H. Murray’s The Story of Everest, 1953 (Neate M188) and Charles Evans’ Kangchenjunga. The Untrodden Peak, 1956 (Neate E27) (7)

£150-200

360 Howard-Bury (Lieutenant-Colonel C.K.). Mount Everest. The Reconnaissance, 1921, 1st ed., 1922; Bruce (Brigadier-General Hon. C.G.), The Assault on Mount Everest, 1922, 2nd imp., May, 1924; Norton (Lieutenant-Colonel E.F.), The Fight for Everest: 1924, 1st ed., 1925; Ruttledge (Hugh), Everest 1933, 1st ed., 1934; Ruttledge (Hugh), Everest: The Unfinished Adventure, 1st ed., 1937, together 5 vols., photogravures, half-tone plts., col. plts., folding maps, etc, all orig. cloth gilt, some a little rubbed, first vol. a little creased on spine, Everest 1933 in price-clipped d.j., all large 8vo Neate H120, B196, N31, R99 & R100.

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361 Hunt (John). The Ascent of Everest, 1st ed., pub. Hodder & Stoughton, 1953, signed by the author in blue ink to title, colour frontis., several colour plts. and numerous b&w plts. after photos, orig. blue cloth gilt in d.j., very sl. rubbed, 8vo

£500-700

Neate H135. A good copy.

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83

£70-100

362 Hunt (John). The Ascent of Everest, 1st ed., 1953, colour & b & w illustrations, original cloth, water stains to lower cover, d.j., minor chips and tears, 8vo, with a tipped-in 2 pp. autograph letter

by John Hunt, dated November 1994, on Royal Geographical Society notepaper, describing corrections to a new book, (Neate H135), together with High Adventure, by Edmund Hillary, 1st ed., 1955, colour frontis., original cloth, d.j., one or two minor tears, 8vo, plus Kangchenjunga. The Untrodden Peak, by Charles Evans, 1st ed., 1956, colour frontis., illustrations, original cloth, price-clipped d.j., sellotape repairs, 8vo, (Neate E27), with six others including Edmund Hillary & Desmond Doig’s High in the Thin Cold Air, 1963 (Neate H82), and Chris Bonington’s Annapurna South Face, 1971 (Neate B127) (9)

£100-150

363 Hunt (John). The Ascent of Everest, 1st ed., Hodder & Stoughton, 1953, several colour and numerous b&w plts. after photos, orig. cloth in d.j., a little frayed to extrems., with autograph letter signed by John Hunt, addressed to Geoff Milburn, on Royal Geographical Society headed notepaper, dated 24th February 1988, tipped into front endpaper, (Neate H135), together with Hillary (Edmund & Doig, Desmond), High In The Thin Cold Air, 1st ed., Hodder & Stoughton, 1963, numerous b&w illusts. after photos, orig. cloth in d.j., (Neate H82), plus Hillary (Edmund), High Adventure, 1st ed., Hodder & Stoughton, 1955, colour frontis., b&w plts. after photos, orig. cloth in price-clipped and frayed d.j., (Neate H81), and others related, including Charles Evans, Kangchenjunga, The Untrodden Peak, 1st ed., 1956, Chris Bonington, Annapurna South Face, 1st ed., 1971, (Neate B127), Reinhold Messner, Everest, Expedition to the Ultimate, 1st English ed., 1979, (Neate M88), etc., all orig. cloth in d.j.s, mostly 8vo (9)

Lot 365

£100-150

364 Hunt (John). The Ascent of Everest, 1st ed., Hodder & Stoughton, 1953, several colour and numerous b&w plts., after photos, orig. cloth in sl. rubbed d.j., with autograph note signed by John Hunt, addressed to Geoff Milburn, tipped-in to front endpaper, (Neate H135), together with Hillary (Edmund), High In The Thin Cold Air, 1st ed., Hodder & Stoughton, 1963, (Neate H82), High Adventure, 1st ed., Hodder & Stoughton, 1955, and Annapurna South Face, 1st ed., 1971, and Evans (Charles), Kangchenjunga, The Untrodden Peak, 1st ed., 1956, (Neate E27), all orig. cloth in d.j.s, 8vo (9)

£100-150

365 Kawaguchi (Ekai). Three Years in Tibet, with the original Japanese Illustrations, 1st English ed., Theosophical Society, Madras, 1909, numerous b & w illusts, folding map and panoramic view of Gauri Sankar to rear, orig. maroon cloth gilt, slightly rubbed to extrems, 8vo Kawaguchi (1866-1945) was a Buddhist monk and the first Japanese to travel in either Tibet or Nepal. He explains in the preface how his friend, the social reformer Annie Besant, had encouraged him to publish the English translation despite Kawaguchi’s initial reservations in the face of the British expedition to Tibet and the imminent publication of Hedin’s account of the area -”she was of the opinion that such books would treat of the country from a western point of view, whilst my book would prove interesting to the reader from the point of view of an Asiatic...”.

(1) £200-300

366 Khanna (Y.C.). Saser Kangri: Yellow Goddess of the Karakoram: The First Ascent, 1st ed., New Delhi, 1980, colour and b & w plates, orig. cloth, dust-wrapper with some minor edge fraying, 8vo Yakushi K56. Neate K17: “Saser Kangri was one of the highest unclimbed peaks prior to the Indian ascent in 1973”.

(1) £70-100

Lot 366

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367 Kohli (M.S.). Last of the Annapurnas, 1st ed., Delhi, 1962, colour and b & w illusts, orig. cloth, dust-wrapper dampstained with some peeling and loss, together with Nine Atop Everest, 1st ed., 1969, b & w plates and maps, inscribed by H.C. Sarin (President of the Indian Mountaineering Foundation), orig. cloth in slightly chipped and frayed dust-wrapper, both 8vo Yakushi K114, K115. Neate K42, K43.

(2)

£70-100

368 Little (Archibald John). Mount Omi and Beyond. A Record of Travel on the Thibetan Border, 1st ed., 1901, portrait frontispiece, folding map, half-tone illustrations, scattered light spotting, original pictorial cloth, corners bent, a little grubby, 8vo Neate L43. “Account of journeys in 1892-97. The author passed close by vast snow-covered ranges which remained practically unexplored by Europeans.

Omi-shan is a sacred mountain in north-west Szechuan.”

(1) £100-150

Lot 367

369 Mazuchelli (Mrs. Elizabeth Sarah). The Indian Alps and How We Crossed Them. Being a Narrative of Two Years’ Residence in the Eastern Himalaya and Two Months’ Tour into the Interior, by a Lady Pioneer, 1st ed., 1876, half-title present, ten chromolithographs, folding map, wood-engs. to text, some minor scattered spotting, a.e.g., orig. dec. cloth, soiled and worn (upper cover almost detached), royal 8vo Neate M74. A binding copy?

(1)

Lot 368

85

£70-100

373 Murray (W. H.). The Story of Everest, 1st ed., J. M. Dent & Sons, 1953, b&w plts. after photos, and illusts. to text, some light foxing to endpapers, orig. blue cloth gilt, a little rubbed and some light marks, in d.j., sl. chipped to extrems., signed by the author in blue ink to title, (Neate M188), together with Hillary (Edmund), High Adventure, 1st ed., pub. Hodder & Stoughton, 1955, colour frontis., b&w plts. and illusts., orig. blue cloth gilt, rubbed and some marks, in frayed and chipped d.j., with a little loss, signed by the author to half-title, (Neate 81) plus Hunt (John), The Ascent of Everest, 1st ed., pub. Hodder & Stoughton, 1953, colour frontis., several colour plts., numerous b&w plts. after photos, etc., orig. cloth gilt in d.j., very sl. frayed to extrems. (generally a good copy), with autograph letter signed by John Hunt, addressed to Geoff Milburn, on Royal Geographical Society headed notepaper, dated 2nd June 1985, tipped in to front endpaper, (Neate H135), and two others related, both signed (John Hunt, Life is Meeting, with tipped in signature to title (Neate H136), & Chris Bonington, Everest The Hard Way, 1st ed., 1976, signed to title), all 8vo (5)

£150-200

374 Newby (Eric). A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush, 1st ed., Secker & Warburg, 1958, b&w illusts. after photos, orig. cloth in badly frayed d.j., with a little loss, (Neate N16), together with Maraini.

Where Four World’s Meet, Hindu Kush, 1959, 1st English ed., Hamish Hamilton, 1964, colour and b&w plts. and illusts., orig. cloth in heavily rubbed and sl. frayed d.j., (Neate M49), plus Douglas (William O.), Beyond the High Himalayas, 1st ed., New York, 1952, colour and b&w illusts. after photos, orig. cloth in d.j., a little rubbed, (Neate D41) and Lorimer (E. O.), Language Hunting in the Karakoram, 1st ed., 1939, b&w plts. after photos, orig. cloth, rubbed in badly frayed d.j., with loss, plus others on travel and moutaineering in the Himalayas, mostly mid-20th c. pubs., all orig. cloth, mostly in d.j.s, 8vo

370 Merzbacher (Gottfried). The Central Tian-Shan Mountains 1902-1903, 1st ed., John Murray, 1905, b & w photo. plates, folding map (closed tear with sellotape repair), spotting to endpapers, orig. dark-blue cloth gilt, sl. rubbed and marked, 8vo Neate M85: “Mountain exploration on the Sino-Russian frontier. The author was a German climber and explorer, active in the Dolomites, Caucasus and ranges of central Asia”. This copy is inscribed by Percy Cunningham Mather (1882-1933), a pioneer British Protestant missionary based for most of his life in Xinjiang province in China.

(1) £300-400

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£100-150

371 Messner (Reinhold). The Seventh Grade. Most Extreme Climbing, 1974, (Neate M90); The Challenge, 1977 (Neate M87); The Big Walls, 1978 (Neate M86); Everest. Expedition to the Ultimate, 1979 (Neate M88); Solo. Nanga Parbat, 1980 (Neate M91); K2.

Mountain of Mountains, 1981, signed by Alessandro Gogna, (Neate M89); High Ambition. A Biography of Rhinehold Messner, by Ronald Faux, 1st ed., 1982; another copy, pub. Alpine Sports in Association with Victor Gollancz Ltd., 1982, signed by Faux and Messner, (Neate F10); all 14 Eight-thousanders, 1988, signed by Messner; Rhinehold Messner, Free Spirit. A Climber’s Life, 1991; Antarctica - Both Heaven and Hell, 1991; To the Top of the World. Alpine Challenges in the Himalaya and Karakoram, 1992; Annapurna. 50 Years of Expeditions in the Death Zone, 2000; The Second Death of George Mallory, 2001, together 15 vols., col. and b & w illusts. from photos, all orig. cloth/boards, 8vo & 4to, mostly VG (15)

£150-200

372 Morris (James). Coronation Everest, 1st ed., Faber & Faber, 1958, b&w plts. after photos, bookplate of M. E. Prestwich to front pastedown, orig. blue cloth in sl. frayed d.j., (Neate M147), together with Hunt (John), The Ascent of Everest, 1st ed., Hodder & Stoughton, 1953, several colour and many b&w plts. after photos, author’s signature mounted to front endpaper, orig. blue cloth in d.j., rubbed, plus another copy of the same work pub. E. P. Dutton, New York, 1954, (Neate H135) and Hillary (Edmund), High Adventure, 1st ed., 1955, colour frontis., b&w plts. after photos, signed by the author to title, orig. blue cloth, a little rubbed to edges, in frayed and chipped d.j., with a little loss, (Neate H81), plus others on Mount Everest, various, mostly later 20th c. pubs., mainly orig. cloth in d.j.s, 8vo (approx. 50)

Lot 375

£150-200

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375 Parrot (Dr. Friedrich). Journey to Ararat, trans. W.D. Cooley, 1st English ed., 1845, folding eng. map laid down on linen, a few wood-engs. to text, orig. blind-stamped cloth gilt, rubbed and some wear, inner joints weak, 8vo

380 Roerich (Nicholas). Himalayas: Abode of Light, 1st ed., Nalanda Publications, Bombay, 1947, two colour plates, 22 b & w plates, orig. cloth-backed printed boards, printed paper spine label, a little spotted, 4to

Neate P13. The first ascent of Ararat. One of Monte Rosa’s summits bears his name. Mount Ararat in Judeo-Christian tradition is associated with the “Mountains of Ararat” where, according to the book of Genesis, Noah’s ark came to rest.

(1) £100-150

Yakushi R162.

(1)

£70-100

376 Parrot (Dr. Friedrich). Journey to Ararat, trans. W.D. Cooley, 1st English ed., [1845], folding eng. map (a little spotted), a few wood-engs. to text, near-contemp. blind-panelled morocco gilt, rubbed and a little worn at extremities (with Eton leaving inscription dated 1863), 8vo (1)

£100-150

377 Parrot (Dr. Friedrich). Journey to Ararat, trans. W.D. Cooley, 1st English ed., [1845], folding eng. map, a few wood-engs. to text, near-contemp. red polished calf by Zaehnsdorf, gilt-dec. spine with raised bands and contrasting title label, a little rubbed and upper joint tender (with Eton leaving inscription dated 1865), 8vo (1)

£100-150

378 Rickmers (W. Rickmer). The Duab of Turkestan: A Physiographic Sketch and Account of Some Travels, 1st ed., Cambridge, 1913, two folding maps to rear, folding panorama, numerous b & w illusts. and plans to text, orig. green cloth gilt, spine rubbed and darkened, 8vo The author was an early accomplished skier and mountaineer.

(1)

£100-150

379 Rockhill (William Woodville). The Land of the Lamas. Notes of a Journey Through China, Mongolia and Tibet, 1st US ed., New York, 1891, two double-page maps, b & w illustrations, t.e.g., original cloth, spine with red label, a little rubbed with dampstains, slight lean, 8vo Neate R62.

(1)

£70-100

381 Shaw (Robert). Visits to High Tartary, Yarkand, and Kashghar (formerly Chinese Tartary), and Return Journey over the Karakoram Pass, 1st ed., John Murray, 1871, four tinted litho. plates, wood engraved illusts, two folding maps, 18 pp. publishers catalogue to rear, frontis. relaid, orig. green cloth gilt, recased with new endpapers, 8vo Educated at Marlborough and Cambridge, Shaw settled in the Himalayas as a tea planter. Eager for adventure he decided to explore the country north of the Karakoram and set off in May 1868 for Eastern Turkestan, reaching Yarkand on 8 December and Kashgar on 11 January 1869. He became the first Englishman to visit these parts and would later return to the area to assist in establishing political treaties with the British.

(1) £150-200

Lot 380

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384 Shirahata (Shiro). The Alps, 1st English ed., pub. Rizzoli, 1980, col. plts. after photos, orig. cloth in d.j., folio, together with Himalaya, 1st European ed., Berlin, 1987, numerous col. illusts., orig. cloth in partly torn glassine d.j., folio, plus The Karakoram, Mountains of Pakistan, 1st English ed., 1990, numerous col. illusts., orig. cloth in d.j., folio, and Shirakawa (Yoshikazu), The Alps, Photographs by Yoshikazu Shirakawa, Introduction by Chris Bonington, Text by Max A. Wyss, 1st ed., pub. Thames & Hudson, 1973, col. plts. after photos, orig. blue cloth gilt in d.j., with card slipcase, folio, plus Himalayas, Photographs and Text by Yoshikazu Shirakawa, Introduction by Sir Edmund Hillary, 1st ed., New York, Harry N. Abrams, 1972, numerous colour and b & w plts. after photos, including many folding, orig. cloth in d.j., with publisher’s cloth chemise, with bone fasteners, rubbed and some marks, large folio, together with two later editions of the same work, published in 1976 and 1986, plus other modern photographic publications, mosly relating to the Himalayas, including Toni Hagen, Nepal, The Kingdom in the Himalayas, 3rd ed., 1971, mainly orig. cloth in d.j.s, all large format Neate S69, S70, S71 & S72. (approx. 50)

385 Sircar (Joydeep). Himalayan Handbook, 1st complete ed., Calcutta, 1979, signed to title, loosely inserted letter from the author to mountaineer and bibliophile Louis C. Baume, orig. printed wrappers, 8vo, together with volume one (A-K) of the first edition published in 1974 (volume two was never published), in orig. printed wrappers, 8vo, and Neate (W.R.), Mountaineering and its Literature, 1st ed., 1978, orig. cloth in dust-wrapper, 4to, plus Baume (Louis C.), Sivalaya: The 8000-metre Peaks of the Himalaya, 1st ed., 1978, orig. cloth in dust-wrapper, 8vo, and Porter (Edward C.), Library of Mountaineering and Exploration and Travel, Chicago, 1959, orig.cloth in dust-wrapper, 8vo, plus Irwin (William Robert), Challenge: An Anthology of the Literature of Mountaineering, New York, 1950, orig. cloth in dust-wrapper, 8vo, plus Kramarsic (Joseph D.), Bibliography of Colorado Mountain Ascents, 1863-1976, Dillon, Colorado, 1979, together with Bibliography of Colorado Rock Climbs and Ice Climbs 1863-1976, Dillon, 1983, both in matching orig. cloth gilt, 4to, plus Cox (James R.), Classics in the Literature of Mountaineering and Mountain Travel from the Francis P. Farquhar Collection of Mountaineering Literature, Los Angeles, 1980, b & w photo. plates, orig. cloth gilt, 4to, plus other mountaineering bibliography, anthologies and reference

382 Sherring (Charles A.). Western Tibet and the British Borderland, The Sacred Country of Hindus and Buddhists, with an Account of the Government, Religion and Customs of its Peoples.

With a Chapter by T.G. Longstaff, Describing an Attempt to Climb Gurla Mandhata, 1st ed., Edwin Arnold, 1906, author’s presentation copy, inscribed on flyleaf ‘With best wishes from us both, C.A. Sherring, April 1909’, half-title present, photogravure frontis., numerous b & w illusts. from photos, two folding maps, orig. cloth gilt, a little rubbed and minor wear to extremities, 8vo Neate S53.

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Neate S79: “Lists every Himalayan peak over 20,000 ft and summarizes every attempt and ascent with bibliographical references”.

(24) £100-150

386 Smythe (F.S.). The Valley of Flowers, 1st ed., 1938, sixteen tipped in col. plts. after photographs by the author, two maps (including one folding), t.e.g., remainder rough-trimmed, orig. offwhite cloth, lettered in gilt, rubbed and somewhat soiled, 8vo

£300-400

Neate S133. Limited signed edition 236/250.

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383 Shipton (Eric). Nanda Devi, 1st ed., 1936, b & w photo. plates, pictorial endpapers, orig. cloth, dust-wrapper with a few minor nicks and marks, 8vo, together with Blank on the Map, 1st ed., 1938, b & w plates and illusts, folding map to rear, cracking to inner hinges, orig. black cloth lettered in red, rubbed and marked, and Upon that Mountain, 1st ed., 1943, b & w photo. plates, orig. cloth in torn and frayed dust-wrapper, plus Mountains of Tartary, 1st ed., [1951], b & w photo. plates, orig. cloth in slightly chipped dust-wrapper, plus others by and about Eric Shipton, all 8vo Neate S63; S58; S68; S62.

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£100-150

£70-100

387 Smythe (F.S.). The Kangchenjunga Adventure, 1st ed., 1930, signed on title by the author, b & w illusts. from photos, some foreedge spotting, orig. cloth gilt, rubbed and faded on spine, short closed tear at head, (Neate S119), together with Kamet Conquered, 1st ed., 1932, b & w illusts. from photos, folding map at rear, orig. cloth in frayed and chipped d.j., (Neate S118), plus Camp Six. An Account of the 1933 Mount Everest Expedition, 1st ed., 1937, b & w illusts. from photos, orig. cloth gilt, a little rubbed on spine, (Neate S114), and Edward Whymper, 1st ed., 1940, port. frontis., b & w illusts., orig. cloth in sl. chipped d.j., (Neate S117) and others by Frank S. Smythe, all 8vo

£100-150

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£150-200

388 Snaith (Stanley). At Grips with Everest, 1st ed., pub. Percy Press, 1937, b&w illusts. after photos, some minor spotting to foreedges, orig. green cloth in frayed pictorial d.j., price-clipped, (Neate S137), together with Murray (W. H.), The Scottish Himalayan Expedition, 1st ed., 1951, colour frontis., b&w plts. after photos, orig. cloth in d.j., very sl. rubbed to extrems., generally in clean condition, plus Herrligkoffer (Karl M.), Nanga Parbat incorporating the Official Report of the Expedition of 1953, 1st English ed., 1954, several colour and many b&w plts. after photos, orig. cloth in pictorial d.j., very sl. rubbed to extrems., (Neate H73), and Evans (Charles), Kangchengunga The Untrodden Peak, 1st ed., 1956, colour and b&w plts. after photos, orig. cloth in d.j., (Neate E27), plus others on the Himalayas, mostly mid-20th c. pubs., including Jean Franco and Lionel Terray, At Grips with Jannu, 1st ed., 1967, (Neate F53), Bernard Pierre, A Mountain Called Nun Kun, 1st ed., 1955, Patricia Petzoltt, On Top of the World, 1st ed., 1954, (Neate P47), Raymond Lambert & Claude Kogan, White Fury, 1st English ed., 1956, etc., all orig. cloth in d.j.s, a little rubbed to extrems., 8vo (25)

390 Tenzing Norgay. After Everest. An Autobiography, 1st ed., 1977, col. and b&w illusts., signed to front endpaper by Tenzing Norgay, orig. cloth in price-clipped d.j., 8vo, (Neate T18), together with Hunt (John), The Ascent of Everest, 1st ed., 1953, col. frontis., b&w illusts., signed to title by John Hunt, Tim Bourdillon & George Band, orig. cloth gilt in d.j., some rubbing, 8vo, (Neate H135), plus Hillary (Edmund), High Adventure, 1st ed., 1955, col. frontis., b&w illusts., signed to half-title by E. P. Hillary, John Hunt & George Band, orig. cloth gilt in d.j., rubbing to extrems., 8vo, (Neate H81), plus two others comprising Touching My Father’s Soul. A Sherpa’s Journey to the Top of Everest, by Jamling Tenzing Norgay & Broughton Coburn, 1st ed., pub. San Francisco, 2001 & Tigers of the Snow. How One Fateful Climb Made the Sherpas Mountaineering Legends, by Jonathan Neale, 1st ed., 2002 (5)

£100-150

£100-150

389 Somervell (T. Howard). After Everest, The Experiences of a Mountaineer and Medical Missionary, 1st ed., Hodder & Stoughton, 1936, b&w plts. after photos, etc., orig. green cloth gilt in frayed and torn d.j., (Neate S142), together with Dyhrenfurth (G. O.), To The Third Pole, The History of the High Himalaya, trans. Hugh Merrick, 1st English ed., 1955, b&w plts. after photos, orig. blue cloth in d.j., (Neate D64), plus Hunt (John), The Ascent of Everest, 2nd imp., 1953, several colour and many b&w plts. after photos, signed by the author and Doug Scott to title, orig. blue cloth in d.j., a little rubbed to extrems., and Hillary (Edmund), High Adventure, 1st ed., Hodder & Stoughton, 1955, colour frontis., b&w plts. after photos, signed by the author to half-title, orig. blue cloth in frayed d.j., with a little loss, (Neate H81), plus others on Mount Everest and related, including Chris Bonington, Everest South West Face, 1st ed., 1973 (signed), Toni Hargen and others, Mount Everest, Formation, Population and Exploration of the Everest Region, 1st English ed., 1963, Dennis Roberts, I’ll Climb Mount Everest Alone, The Story of Maurice Wilson, 1st ed., 1957, (Neate R46), R. Dittert, Fore Runners to Everest, 1st English ed., 1954, (Neate D32), The Picture of Everest, 1st ed., 1954 (in deluxe vellum binding), etc., mostly orig. cloth in d.j.s, 8vo/4to (60)

£150-200

391 Terray (Lionel). Conquistadors of the Useless. From the Alps to Annapurna, 1st ed., 1963, signed on half-title by the author, numerous b & w illusts. from photos, some minor fore-edge. spotting, orig. cloth in sl. chipped d.j., (Neate T19), together with Franco (Jean and Terray, Lionel), At Grips with Jannu, with a Preface by Lucien Devies, President of the French Himalayan Committee, 1st English ed., 1967, numerous b & w illusts. from photos, orig. cloth in d.j. (small hole to upper cover of d.j.), (Neate F53. The French ascent of Jannu in 1962 was the most difficult Himalayan climb accomplished up to that time.) plus Franco (Jean), Makalu 8470 metres [27,790 feet]. The Highest Peak Yet Conquered by an Entire Team, trans. Denise Morin, 1st ed., 1955, col. frontis., b & w illusts. from photos, route maps, b & w photo ports. of the team on front and rear endpapers, orig. cloth in sl. chipped d.j., (Neate F52) and Tichy (Herbert), Cho Oyu. By Favour of the Gods, Translated by Basil Creighton, Foreword by Sir John Hunt, 1st ed., 1957, four col. plts. and numerous b & w illusts. from photos, two route maps to text, orig. cloth in d.j., (Neate T32. This Austrian expedition was the smallest at the time to succeed on a major Himalayan peak) all 8vo Terray was a French climber whose conquests included the Eigerwand, Fitzroy, Annapurna, Makalu and Jannu. He died in a climbing accident.

(4) £100-150

Lot 390

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392 Tilman (H.W.). The Ascent of Nanda Devi, 1st ed., Cambridge University Press, 1937, b & w photo. plates, two maps (including one folding), orig. cloth in chipped dust-wrapper, together with Mount Everest 1938, 1st ed., CUP, 1948, b & w photo. plates, orig. cloth, dust-wrapper with a little fraying to head and foot of spine, and Two Mountains and a River, 1st ed., CUP, 1949, b & w photo. plates, six maps (including one folding), orig. cloth in chipped and creased dust-wrapper, plus China to Chitral, 1st ed., CUP, 1951, b & w photo. plates and maps, orig. cloth in slightly chipped dustwrapper, plus Nepal Himalaya, CUP, 1952, b & w photo. plates and maps, orig. cloth in slightly chipped dust-wrapper, all 8vo, plus others

by Tilman including a Travel Book Club edition of “Snow on the Equator” (1940) in dust-wrapper, a reprint of “When Men and Mountains Meet” (1947) and two biographies of Tilman Neate T35; T49; T36; T45.

(9)

£200-300

393 Tilman (H.W.). Mischief in Patagonia, 1st ed., CUP, 1957, b & w plates and maps, orig. cloth in VG dust-wrapper, together with Mischief among the Penguins, 1st ed., 1961, b & w plates and maps, orig. cloth in VG price-clipped dust-wrapper, together with Mischief in Greenland, 1st ed., 1964, b & w plates, library stamp to verso of title, orig. cloth in slightly chipped dust-wrapper, and Mischief Goes South, 1st ed., 1968, b & w plates and maps, library stamp to verso of title, orig. cloth in creased and marked dust-wrapper, plus others by and about H.W. Tilman, all 8vo Neate T39-T42. An irrepressible mountaineer and adventurer, Bill Tilman climbed extensively in Africa and the Himalayas, leading the British attempt on Everest in 1938 and surveying the Nepalese approaches in 1950. He then deemed himself too old for mountaineering and took to sailing with the same zeal, initially in the ‘Mischief’, an old Bristol Channel pilot cutter. Preferring to sail in the extreme latitudes Tilman published accounts of many of his sailing adventures before disappearing without trace, aged 80, in the South Atlantic in 1979.

(10) £100-150

395 Visser-Hooft (Jenny). Among the Kara-Korum Glaciers in 1925, 1st ed., Edward Arnold, 1926, photogravure portrait frontis., two maps (including one folding), b & w photo. plates, orig. cloth gilt, dust-wrapper with some minor edge nicks, 8vo

394 Tucci (Giuseppe & Ghersi, E.). Secrets of Tibet. Being the Chronicle of the Tucci Scientific Expedition to Western Tibet (1933), Translated from the Italian edition by Mary A. Johnstone, 1st UK ed., 1935, two folding maps, b & w illustrations, one or two spots, original cloth, a little dust-stained, 8vo, together with In the World’s Attic, by Henrietta Sands Merrick, 1st ed., 1931, colour frontis., folding map, illustrations, previous owner stamps, original red cloth, spine ends slightly rubbed, 8vo, plus Serie Orientale Roma XII. The Amnye Ma-Chhen Range and Adjacent Regions. A Monographic Study, by J.F. Rock, Rome, 1956, five folding maps contained in rear pocket, illustrations, original boards, 8vo, (Neate R60), with others related including Giotto Dainelli’s Buddhists and Glaciers of Western Tibet, 1933, Marco Pallis’s Peaks and Lamas, 1939 (Neate P03) and F. Spencer Chapman’s Lhasa. The Holy City, 1938 (Neate C28) (18)

Neate V19: “Account of the Netherlands 2nd Karakoram expedition, exploring the Batura, Hispar and Shamshal glaciers”. A near-fine copy.

(1) £200-300

396 Walton (W.H. Murray). Scrambles in Japan and Formosa, 1st ed., 1934, two folding maps at rear, numerous b & w maps and plates, orig. purple cloth gilt, slightly rubbed, together with Ponting (Herbert G.), In Lotus-Land Japan, 1st ed., 1922, colour and b & w plates, orig. gilt dec. cloth, rubbed to extrems, both 8vo Neate W14 (first item).

(2)

£200-300

90

£150-200

400 White (Lieutenant George Francis & Roberts, Emma). Views in India, Chiefly Among the Himalaya Mountains, [1838], steel-eng. frontis., additional vign. title and thirty-five steel-eng. views, correct as list, some scattered spotting, a.e.g., orig. blind-stamped and giltdec. plum morocco, some wear to extremities, inner joints crudely strengthened with linen tape (lacks rear free endpaper), 4to (1)

£150-200

397 Weston (Rev. Walter). Mountaineering and Exploration in the Japanese Alps, 1st ed., Murray, 1896, half title, two folding maps at rear, numerous b & w photo. plates, orig. decorated cloth gilt, faded with some splitting to joints and fraying to extrems, 8vo Neate W45. Weston (1860-1940) was a British missionary based for many years in Japan where he is highly respected, becoming the first honourary member of the Japanese Alpine Club. He was short, stocky and blind in one eye, but remembered as a tenacious climber.

(1) £300-400

398 Weston (Rev. Walter). The Playground of the Far East, 1st ed., John Murray, 1918, two folding maps, numerous b & w photo. plates, orig. red cloth gilt, faded to spine, 8vo Neate W46: “Follow-up to his first book on mountaineering in Japan”.

(1) £100-150

399 Whistler (Hugh). In the High Himalayas. Sport and Travel in the Rhotang and Baralacha, with some Notes on the Natural History of that Area, 1st ed., 1924, map and half-tone illustrations (one loose), occasional spotting, previous owner signature, original cloth, 8vo, together with The Fire Ox and Other Years, by Suydam Cutting, 1st UK ed., 1947, colour frontispiece, maps and illustrations, original cloth, d.j., sellotape residue and a few spots, 8vo, plus Through Deep Defiles to Tibetan Uplands. The Travels of a Naturalist from the Irrawaddy to the Yangtse, by Herbert Stevens, 1st ed., 1934, folding map, illustrations, one or two spots, original cloth, 8vo, with three others related (6)

401 Workman (Fanny Bullock & William Hunter). Peaks and Glaciers of Nun Kun. A Record of Pioneer-Exploration and Mountaineering in the Punjab Himalaya, 1st ed., 1909, half-title present, col. frontis., numerous illusts. from photos, printed in sepia or blue tint, folding map and single ad leaf at rear, some spotting, t.e.g., orig. pict. cloth, inner joints cracked, rubbed and some wear to extremities, 8vo Neate W125.

(1)

£150-200

91

£200-300

404 Workman (Fanny Bullock & William Hunter). Two Summers in the Ice-Wilds of Eastern Karakoram; The Exploration of Nineteen Hundred Square Miles of Mountain and Glacier, 1917, 134 photographic plates including some folding, three folding maps, minor marginal spotting, orig. dec. brown cloth, slightly rubbed to extrems, 8vo Neate W126: “Their fifth and last Karakoram expedition, 1911-12. They explored the Hush Valley and the Soltoro and Baltoro Glaciers”.

(1) £200-300

402 Workman (Fanny Bullock & William Hunter). Ice-Bound Heights of the Mustagh. An Account of Two Seasons of Pioneer Exploration and High Climbing in the Baltistan Himalaya, 1st ed., 1908, half-title present, col. frontis. and plts., photogravures, numerous b & w illusts. from photos, folding map at rear, ex-lib. copy, upper margin of many leaves stamped in blind ‘Bradford Library and Literary Society’, t.e.g., orig. pict. cloth, recased, preserving orig. spine, corners bumped, 8vo Neate W123.

(1)

£100-150

403 Workman (Fanny Bullock & William Hunter). In the Ice World of Himalaya... Among the Peaks and Passes of Ladakh, Nubra, Suru, and Baltistan, 1st ed., 1900, half-title present, photogravures and b & w illusts. from photos, three folding maps at rear, some minor marginal spotting, near-contemp. half morocco gilt, joints cracked, some wear to spine, 8vo Neate W124.

(1)

£70-100

Lot 405

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QUANTITY 405 Workman (William Hunter & Fanny Bullock). The Call of the Snowy Hispar. A Narrative of Exploration and Mountaineering on the Northern Frontier of India, with an Appendix by Count Dr. Cesare Calciati and Dr. Mathias Koncza, 1st ed., 1910, half-title present, two folding maps, photogravures and numerous b & w illusts. from photos, some folding, t.e.g., remainder rough-trimmed, orig. pict. cloth gilt, a little worn at extremities (new endpapers), 8vo Neate W122.

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409 Moffat (Gwen). Space Below My Feet, 1st ed., 1961, b&w plts. after photos, signed by the author to title, orig. cloth in d.j., rubbed and a little frayed, (Neate M125), together with Two Star Red, 1st ed., 1964, b&w plts. after photos, signed by the author to title, orig. cloth in d.j., (Neate M127), plus Scarr (Josephine), Four Miles High, 1st ed., 1966, b&w plts. after photos, orig. cloth in d.j., and Byles (Marie Beuzeville), By Cargo Boat & Mountain, The Unconventional Experiences of a Woman on Tramp Round the World, 1st ed., 1931, b&w plts. after photos, orig. blue cloth, lightly faded, plus Bird (Isabella L.), A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains, 6th ed., 1894, b&w plts., orig. cloth, a little rubbed, and others by and about women travellers and mountaineers, including Constance Grande, Monica Jackson, Joyce Dunsheath, Jennifer Bourdillon, Diana Shipton, Cicely Williams, a few signed, all orig. cloth, many in d.j.s, 8vo

£200-300

406 Yakushi (Yoshimi). Catalogue of Himalayan Literature, 1st ed., Kyoto, 1972, inscribed by author to Louis Baume and with related tipped-in letter, orig. printed wrappers, 8vo Limited to 500 copies.

(1)

£100-150

(3 shelves)

407 Yakushi (Yoshimi). Catalogue of Himalayan Literature, 2nd ed., Kyoto, 1984, inscribed by author to Louis Baume, orig. cloth in slipcase, 4to, together with Contribution, about Spanish Books, to the “Catalogue of the Himalyan Literature” by Yoshimi Yakushi, 1988, number 15 of 25 copies, orig. paper wrappers, 8vo (2)

410 For further information regarding this and the following eight lots please see our website catalogue or contact the auction office (3 shelves)

£100-150

£150-200

411 Mountaineering, various

408 Younghusband (Captain Frank E.). The Heart of a Continent: A Narrative of Travels in Manchuria, Across the Gobi Desert, Through the Himalayas, the Pamirs, and Chitral, 1884-1894, 1st ed., 1896, four folding maps, b & w illusts. from photos and drawings, later half morocco gilt, upper joint cracked, (Neate Y29), together with The Heart of a Continent. Commemorating the Fiftieth Anniversary of his Journey from Peking to India by way of the Gobi Desert and Chinese Turkestan, and Across the Himalaya by the Mustagh Pass, revised, with additional material, 1937, port. frontis., three half-tone plts., folding map at rear, orig. cloth gilt, rubbed on spine, plus The Heart of Nature, or the Quest for Natural Beauty, 1st ed., 1921, contemp. red half morocco gilt, rubbed on spine, and others by/about Younghusband (10)

£150-200

(3 shelves)

£150-200

412 Mountaineering, various (3 shelves)

£150-200

413 Mountaineering, various (3 shelves)

£150-200

414 Mountaineering, various (3 shelves)

£150-200

415 Mountaineering, various (3 shelves)

£100-150

£150-200

416 Mountaineering, various (3 shelves)

£150-200

417 Mountaineering, various (3 shelves)

£150-200

418 Mountaineering, various (3 shelves)

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£150-200

OTHER PROPERTIES

Lot 422

Lot 423

419 The Alpine Journal: A Record of Mountain Adventure and Scientific Observation, by Members of the Alpine Club, vols. 46-107, bound in 80, a complete run, 1934-2002, num. b&w illusts. and maps (many folding), several early vols. with photocopied title, mixed bindings, early vols. recent cloth gilt, later vols. mostly orig. cloth gilt (many in d.j.s), 8vo, together with two Index vols.

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422 Barry (Martin). Ascent to the Summit of Mont Blanc, 16th18th of 9th Month (SEPTr), 1834, 1st issue, privately printed, [1835], 40 pp., two uncoloured lithographed plates (a few light spots), modern half calf, 8vo Neate B49.

(1)

£200-300

£300-400

420 American Alpine Journal, 36 vols., nos. 39-42 & 44-75, pub.

New York, 1965-2001, num. b&w illusts., orig. printed wrappers/orig. col. pict. wrappers, earlier vols. in d.j.s as issued, small tear to no.

39 d.j., some rubbing, 8vo

423 Bourrit (Marc-Theodore). Description des Alpes Pennines et Rhetiennes; Dediee a S. M. Tres-Chretienne Louis XVI, Roi de France et de Navarre, 2 vols., in one, Geneva, 1781, folding engraved map (with marginal repair), eight engraved plates, a few light spots, contemporary mottled calf, spine lightly rubbed, 8vo

(36)

(1)

£100-150

£300-500

421 Baillie-Grohman (William A.). Sport in the Alps. In the Past and Present..., 1st ed., A & C Black, 1896, photogravure frontispiece, b & w illustrations, a few spots, contemporary half calf, joints and edges rubbed, 4to, together with The Kilima-njaro Expedition. A Record of Scientific Exploration in Eastern Equatorial Africa. And a General Description of the Natural History, Languages, and Commerce of the Kilima-njaro District, by H.H. Johnston, 1st ed., 1886, portrait frontispiece, folding maps, wood-engraved illustrations, 34 pp. pubs. list at end, a few spots, endpapers renewed, original pictorial cloth, rebacked, original spine relaid, a few stains, 8vo, plus Scrambles Amongst the Alps in the Years 1860-69,

by Edward Whymper, 5th ed., 1900, folding maps illustrations, one or two tears, light spots, a.e.g., original blue cloth gilt, 8vo, with others mountaineering and polar

424 Brockedon (William). Journals of Excursions in the Alps: The Pennine, Graian, Cottian, Rhetian, Lepontian, and Bernese, 1st ed., 1833, folding map, a few spots, contemporary previous owner signature to title, bookplate, contemporary half calf, loss at foot of spine, lightly rubbed, 8vo, together with Scrambles Amongst the Alps in the Years 1860-69, by Edward Whymper, 2nd ed., 1871, folding maps, illustrations, one or two loose, occasional spotting, a.e.g., contemporary green morocco gilt, spine rubbed and faded, 8vo, plus Excursions in Switzerland, by James Fenimore Cooper, Paris, Baudry’s European Library, 1836, scattered spotting, bookplate, contemporary calf-backed boards, tear at head of spine, a little rubbed and faded, 8vo, with others related including Sir William Martin Conway’s The Alps from End to End, 1900 and W.A.B. Coolidge’s Alpine Studies, 1912

(approx 60)

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£200-300

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£200-300

Lot 426

425* Dent (Thomas Clinton, 1850-1912). A bronze bas relief memorial portrait by A[lice] C. Maude, 1915, the profiles signed and dated by the artist lower right, titled at foot, ‘Clinton T. Dent, MC FRCS’ with birth and death dates lower left and right, 49.5 x 34.5cm, four screw holes to verso Clinton Thomas Dent, FRCS, was an English surgeon, author and mountaineer. Educated at Eton College and Trinity College, Cambridge, he became senior surgeon at St. George’s Hospital, London. Later he became an important figure in the Royal College of Surgeons, where he was Hunterian Professor in 1908, Examiner 1902-11, and Vice-President 1911. He was also chosen as Chief Surgeon to the Metropolitan Police in 1904 and studied injuries suffered by Police Constables in the course of their work. He wrote and published on both surgical and mountaineering subjects but, to the general public, Dent, who included art collecting and photography amongst his interests, was best known as a mountain climber. He was in succession, Secretary, Vice-President and President of the Alpine Club. He achieved many first ascents in the Alps and Caucasus Mountains, including the first ascent of Aiguille du Dru in 1878.

(1) £400-600

427 Filippi (Filippo de). The Ascent of Mount St. Elias [Alaska], by H.R.H. Prince Luigi Amedeo di Savoia, Duke of the Abruzzi...

Illustrated by Vittorio Sella and Translated by Signora Linda Villari with the Author’s Supervision, 1st ed., 1900, two folding colour maps, folding panoramas and photogravure plates, gutta-percha perished, contents loose, t.e.g., occasional light spotting, original green cloth, spine a little faded with closed tear at head, large 8vo, together with Everest 1933, by Hugh Ruttledge, 1st ed., 1934, folding maps, b & w plates, hinges tender, previous owner signature, original cloth, edges rubbed, d.j., one or two tears and creases, 8vo

426 Filippi (Filippo de). Karakoram and Western Himalaya 1909.

An Account of the Expedition of H.R.H. Prince Luigi Amedeo of Savoy, Duke of the Abruzzi, 2 vols (text/plates), 1st ed., 1912, Preface

by H.R.H. The Duke of the Abruzzi, frontispiece and 25 photogravure plates, numerous illustrations, 18 folding panoramas on 17 sheets, three folding maps and List of Illustrations booklet all contained in separate vol. pocket, original vellum-backed boards, spines rubbed and split with losses, 4to Neate F26.

(2)

£700-1000

Neate F24 & R99.

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95

£200-300

428 Hedin (Sven). Central Asia and Tibet Towards the Holy City of Lassa, 2 vols., 1st ed., 1903, portrait frontispiece to each, four folding maps (one with marginal tear), numerous half-tone illustrations, t.e.g., original red cloth gilt, vol. II spine faded, dampstains at head of lower cover, 8vo (2)

436 Hunt (John). The Ascent of Everest, 2nd impression, 1953, colour and b & w illustrations, a few spots, original blue cloth, d.j., light edge wear, 8vo, signed by the author to title, together with Two Generations. Edmund and Peter Hilary, 1st ed., 1984, illustrations, light spots front and rear, original cloth, d.j., 8vo, signed by Edmund Hilary to front endpaper, with others related including Mount Everest. Formation, Population and Exploration of the Everest Region, by Toni Hagen et al, Translated by E. Noel Bowman, 1963, Edmund Hilary’s Nothing Venture, Nothing Win, 6th impression, 1977, signed by the author and Doug Scott and Alex MacIntyre’s The Sishapangma Expedition, 1994 reprint, signed by Doug Scott

£200-300

429 Hedin (Sven). Trans-Himalaya, Discoveries and Adventures in Tibet, 3 vols. (vols. 1 & 2 2nd imp., vol. 3 1st imp.), 1910-13, numerous col. and b & w plts., folding maps, t.e.g., orig. cloth gilt, sl. rubbed and soiled, spines faded with small nicks at head and foot, 8vo Neate H68.

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£150-200

£200-300

430 Hedin (Sven). Through Asia, 2 vols., 1st English ed., 1898, halftitle and photogravure frontis. to each, b & w illusts. from photos, two large folding maps, some spotting, ink lib. stamps to titles, frontispiece rectos and front endpapers (somewhat soiled), hinges sl. cracked, t.e.g., remainder untrimmed, orig. cloth gilt, rubbed, a little nicked at foot of spines, large 8vo

437 Hunt (John). The Ascent of Everest, 1st ed., 1953, colour and b & w illustrations, contemporary presentation inscription, d.j., 8vo, together with Mountain Jubilee, by Alfred Lunn, 1st ed., 1943, illustrations, a few spots, presentation inscription, original cloth, d.j., one or two chips and tears, 8vo, with others related including Douglas Freshfield’s Italian Alps, 1937, F.S. Smythe’s Edward Whymper, 1940 and Claire Engel’s A History of Mountaineering in the Alps, 1950

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(1)

£100-150

£70-100

431 Hedin (Sven). Central Asia and Tibet Towards the Holy City of Lassa, 2 vols., 1st ed., 1903, port. frontis. to each vol., four folding col. maps, col. and b & w illusts., many from photos, orig. dec. red cloth gilt, spines partly faded and frayed at head and foot with some loss, large 8vo, together with Dans les sables de l’Asie, Translated from the Swedish by Charles Rabot, Paris, [1903], port. frontis. and half-title detached, b & w illusts. from photos, a.e.g., orig. pict. cloth gilt, rubbed and soiled, frayed at extremities, small folio (3)

£150-200

432 Hering (George). The Mountains and Lakes of Switzerland, the Tyrol and Italy, From Drawings made during a Tour through those Countries, 1st ed., 1847, hand-coloured lithographed additional title, dedication and 18 hand-coloured lithographed plates, scattered light spotting, a.e.g., contemporary red half morocco, spine with raised bands and gilt decoration, joints and edges a little rubbed, folio Abbey Travel 63.

(1)

£400-600

438 Hunt (John). The Ascent of Everest, 1st ed., 1953, colour and b & w illustrations, original cloth, spine faded at ends, torn d.j., 8vo

433 Hillary (Edmund). Nothing Venture, Nothing Win, 1st ed., 1975, colour and b & w illustrations, original cloth, d.j., 8vo, inscribed by John Hunt, together with Life is Meeting, by John Hunt, 1st ed., 1978, illustrations, original cloth, d.j., a few tears, 8vo, with a tippedin presentation inscription from the author, with four others including Chris Bonnington’s Mountaineer, 1989, signed by the author (6)

Signed by John Hunt and Tenzing Norgay, with provenance note opposite, plus a signed postcard of Tenzing Norgay and a postcard from the Himalayas, dated 1973 from Joy Hunt stating they were going to meet Edmund Hillary in a village near Mt. Everest.

(3) £300-500

£100-150

439 Larden (Walter). Recollections of an Old Mountaineer, 1st ed., 1910, b & w illustrations, some spotting, pencil annotation, hinges tender, original cloth, lower joint splitting, edges rubbed, 8vo, with a 8 pp. autograph letter from the author to a Mr Wilson, dated 1910, discussing his life and contents of the book

434 Himalayan Journal, Records of the Himalayan Club, vols. 156, a run, pub. London & Oxford, 1929-2000, b&w plts. and illusts., uniform recent cloth gilt, bound with orig. printed wrappers/col. pict. wrappers, 8vo, together with ten others related, incl. five copies of the index vol.

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(1)

£200-300

435 Howard-Bury (Lieutenant-Colonel C.K.). Mount Everest. The Reconnaissance, 1921, 1st ed., pub. Edward Arnold & Co., 1922, photogravures and b & w illusts. from photos, two folding panoramas, three folding maps at rear, some minor scattered spotting and marginal dust soiling, t.e.g., remainder untrimmed, orig. parchment-backed cloth boards, spine soiled and a little worn, 4to Limited Large Paper Edition 32/200, containing fourteen extra plts. Neate H120.

(1) £500-800

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£70-100

Lot 441 443 Peck (Annie S.). A Search for the Apex of America. High Mountain Climbing in Peru and Bolivia Including the Conquest of Huascaran, with some Observations on the Country and People Below, 1st ed., New York, 1911, portrait frontispiece, folding map, half-tone illustrations, light toning, original pictorial cloth gilt, spine a little rubbed at ends, 8vo, together with Travels Amongst the Great Andes of the Equator, by Edward Whymper 2 vols. including Supplement 1891-92, folding map contained in vol. I rear pocket, illustrations, presentation inscription, bookplates, original green cloth, spines lightly rubbed, 8vo, plus Le Roy Jeffers’ The Call of the Mountains. Rambles Among the Mountains and Canyons of the United States and Canada, 1923

440 Mannering (George Edward). With Axe and Rope in the New Zealand Alps, 1st ed., 1891, folding map, b & w plates, pubs. 24 pp. list at end, previous owner stamps, a few spots, original burgundy cloth gilt, spine faded, light dampstains, 8vo, together with Ross (Malcolm), A Climber in New Zealand, 1st ed., 1914, half tone plates (one loose), 8 pp. ads at end, one leaf torn from rough opening at end, a few spots, previous owner isncription, original green cloth, joints slightly rubbed, 8vo, plus Turner (Samuel), The Conquest of the New Zealand Alps, 1st ed., 1922, portrait frontispiece, map & half-tone plates, a couple of leaves loose, a few spots, original blue cloth, 8vo (3)

£150-200

441 Monte Generoso. Panorama Preso dal Monte Generoso, (1740 metres), da E.F. Bossoli, pub. Bollettino delo Club Alpino Italiano (No. 24), n.d., c. 1870, sepia-tinted multi-folding panorama on paper, approx. 240cm fully extended), orig. linen-backed boards, soiled and some wear, 8vo (1)

First book Neate P36. The author was a founder member of the American Alpine Club.

(4) £200-300

444 Topffer (R.). Voyages en ZigZag, ou Excursions d’un Pensionnat en Vacances dans les Canyons Suisses et sur revers Italien des Alpes, Paris, 1844, numerous illustrations, occasional spotting, original pictorial cloth gilt, upper cover detached, large 8vo, together with Zig-Zags en Bretagne, par H. et G. Dubouchet, Paris, 1894, folding maps, illustrations, some toning, presentation inscription, original cloth, rubbed and faded, 4to, with four others including George Cheever’s Wanderings of a Pilgrim in the Shadow of Mont Blanc and the Jungfrau Alp, new ed., c. 1870 and Charles Durier’s Le Mont-Blanc, 1923

£200-300

442 Mountain, nos. 1-145, a run, 1969-1992, num. col. and b&w illusts., all orig. pict. wrappers, some rubbing, 4to, together with eighteen duplicates and fourteen index. issues (incl. four duplicates) (177)

£80-120

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Lot 443

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£70-100

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