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Auction No 362, Category: Mountaineering

10 Lots (displaying 1 - 10)

John Ball (Ed.)"Peaks, Passes, and Glaciers. A Series of Excursions by Members of the Alpine Club" 1859

Lot: 83

  • Auction Date: Wed 21st Sep 2016 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £40 - £50
SOLD £40
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John Ball (Ed.) Peaks, Passes, and Glaciers. A Series of Excursions by Members of the Alpine Club Longman, 1859, 3rd Edn, original gilt cloth, VG; all maps & tissue-guarded plates present, most maps with some creasing, one with small repair; plus 3 related including Gribble Alpine Climbing 1904 in scarce d/jkt. (4)

Ashley P. Abraham "Rock-Climbing in Skye" Longmans, 1908, 1st Edn, original gilt cloth, VG,

Lot: 84

  • Auction Date: Wed 21st Sep 2016 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £60 - £80
SOLD £42
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Ashley P. Abraham Rock-Climbing in Skye Longmans, 1908, 1st Edn, original gilt cloth, VG, 31 tissue-guarded photo-plates, fine map in rear pocket; plus two related titles and a loose map. Scattered foxing. (3)

Ernest Baker "Moors, Crags & Caves of the High Peak and Neighbourhood", John Heywood, n.d.;

Lot: 85

  • Auction Date: Wed 21st Sep 2016 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £50 - £70
SOLD £66
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Ernest Baker Moors, Crags & Caves of the High Peak and Neighbourhood, John Heywood, n.d.;  Eric Byne & Geoffrey Sutton High Peak, 1966, in VG d/jkt; Jones & Milburn Welsh Rock, 1986; and other climbing titles, all h/bk and mostly good to fine. (13)

Leslie Stephen "The Playground of Europe" 1894, new edition, title-page & frontispiece foxed;

Lot: 86

  • Auction Date: Wed 21st Sep 2016 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £50 - £60
SOLD £30
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Leslie Stephen The Playground of Europe 1894, new edition, title-page & frontispiece foxed; Arnold Lunn The Bernese Oberland, 1958, 1st Edn in d/jkt; Slingsby Norway: The Northern Playground, 1941; and Claude Wilson Mountaineering, George Bell 1893.  (4)

E.A. Dutton "Kenya Mountain" Cape, 1930, spine faded; Benuzzi "No Picnic on Mount Kenya" 1952,

Lot: 88

  • Auction Date: Wed 21st Sep 2016 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £40 - £50
SOLD £52
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E.A. Dutton Kenya Mountain Cape, 1930, spine faded; Benuzzi No Picnic on Mount Kenya 1952, 1st Edn in d/jkt; Mackinder The First Ascent of Mount Kenya Hurst & Co, 1991, 1st Edn in d/jkt; and 5 others. (8)

"The Alpine Journal: a Record of Mountain Adventure and Scientific Observation. By Members of the Alpine Club", Volumes 1 to 20,

Lot: 89

  • Auction Date: Wed 21st Sep 2016 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £800 - £1000
SOLD £600
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The Alpine Journal: a Record of Mountain Adventure and Scientific Observation. By Members of the Alpine Club, Volumes 1 to 20, Longmans, 1864-1901, publisher’s gilt cloth good to fine; plates & maps apparently complete including the additional coloured plate to Vol.2. One colour plate in Vol. 3 is foxed; Vol. 7 with front hinge partly split; panoramic folding plate in Vol. 8 detached. Overall condition is very good, the cloth-bound covers clean & bright, and internally largely free of browning.  (20)

John Tyndall "Hours of Exercise in the Alps" 1871, First Edition, green cloth, repaired, plus another in half-leather;

Lot: 90

  • Auction Date: Wed 21st Sep 2016 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £120 - £140
SOLD £80
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John Tyndall Hours of Exercise in the Alps 1871, First Edition, green cloth, repaired, plus another in half-leather; Glaciers of the Alps,  John Murray, 1860, worn cloth; together with a collection of other works by Tyndall, mainly scientific, plus a few biographical; including Diamagnetism and Magne-Crystallic Action 1870 (rebound), Fragments of Science 1879 (2 vols) and Eve & Creasy Life and Work of John Tyndall, Macmillan, 1945. Sixteen are 19th Century publications of which six have been re-cased.  (19)

E.S. Kennedy (Ed.) "Peaks, Passes, and Glaciers; being Excursions by Members of the Alpine Club, Second Series"

Lot: 92

  • Auction Date: Wed 21st Sep 2016 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £50 - £60
SOLD £30
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E.S. Kennedy (Ed.) Peaks, Passes, and Glaciers; being Excursions by Members of the Alpine Club, Second Series London, 1862, 2 Volumes,first edition, contemporary half-leather, worn, over marbled boards; 13 (of 14) fine folding maps, plus plates. Clean interiors

G. F. Browne "Ice-Caves of France and Switzerland" Longmans, 1865, 1st Edition, orig.cloth, gilt,

Lot: 96

  • Auction Date: Wed 21st Sep 2016 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £40 - £50
SOLD £26
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G. F. Browne Ice-Caves of France and Switzerland Longmans, 1865, 1st Edition, orig.cloth, gilt, small piece missing from base of spine o/w VG; G.Hartwig Marvels Under Our Feet, Longmans, 1888, orig. pictorial cloth, VG; together with Thomas Knox Underground, or Life Below the Surface, 1875, rebound in leather, text browned. (3) 

John Tyndall "Mountaineering in 1861. A Vacation Tour" London, 1862, First Edition,

Lot: 99

  • Auction Date: Wed 21st Sep 2016 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £90 - £110
SOLD £60
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John Tyndall Mountaineering in 1861. A Vacation Tour,  London, 1862, First Edition, 19th Century grained cloth, gilt, a little worn & marked; old (small) bookseller’s label on front pastedown; uncut 2 sides; VG internally, two tissue-guarded plates; plus Tyndall’s Hours of Exercise In the Alps, Longmans, 1871, 2nd Edn, original gilt cloth, and The Forms of Water in Clouds & Rivers, Ice & Glaciers, 1889, 10th Edn. (3)