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Auction No 362, Category: Sport

13 Lots (displaying 1 - 13)

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

W. Boyd Dawkins "Cave Hunting: Researches on the Evidence of Caves respecting the Early Inhabitants of Europe"

Lot: 95

  • Auction Date: Wed 21st Sep 2016 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £50 - £70
SOLD £36
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W. Boyd Dawkins Cave Hunting: Researches on the Evidence of Caves respecting the Early Inhabitants of Europe Macmillan, 1874, First Edition, original pictorial cloth with some wear to top & tail of the spine; minor spotting to prelims; colour frontispiece; 129 woodcuts including maps; 453pp. 

W. Broadfoot "Billiards", Longmans, 1901, Badminton Library Edition, pictorial cloth, some minor spotting;

Lot: 138

  • Auction Date: Wed 21st Sep 2016 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £20 - £30
UNSOLD
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W. Broadfoot Billiards, Longmans, 1901, Badminton Library Edition, pictorial cloth, some minor spotting; Walter Lindrum Billiards, 1934, spine faded; and Joe Davis How I Play Snooker, 1949, scattered foxing. (3)

Vivian Caulfield "How to Ski" 1912, pictorial cloth, rebacked, foxing to prelims;

Lot: 139

  • Auction Date: Wed 21st Sep 2016 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £40 - £60
SOLD £26
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Vivian Caulfield How to Ski 1912, pictorial cloth, rebacked, foxing to prelims; E.C. Richardson The Ski-Runner, 1924, pictorial cloth, VG; and Hallberg The Complete Book of Ski-Ing, 1937, in worn d/jkt. (3)

F.F. Roget "Ski-Runs in the High Alps" T. Fisher Unwin, 1913, First Edition, original pictorial cloth,

Lot: 140

  • Auction Date: Wed 21st Sep 2016 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £70 - £90
SOLD £105
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F.F. Roget Ski-Runs in the High Alps T. Fisher Unwin, 1913, First Edition, original pictorial cloth, complete with 6 fine folding maps and 25 plates, some scattered fox marks o/w a fine copy of this scarce book; plus Smythe Climbs and Ski Runs, 1929, 1st Edn, good. (2)

Manchester Wheelers' Club 1899 illuminated address to Allen W. Phillips on the occasion of his leaving Manchester for Johannesburg,

Lot: 141

  • Auction Date: Wed 21st Sep 2016 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £50 - £80
UNSOLD
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Manchester Wheelers' Club 1899 illuminated address to Allen W. Phillips on the occasion of his leaving Manchester for Johannesburg, signed by 33 fellow cyclists, a group photo laid down inside front cover, quarto, full leather, gilt, some light wear; together with a 2-page letter of 1933 from the Manchester Wheelers to Phillips’ widow and 2 related photos.