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Auction No 362, Category: Topography

17 Lots (displaying 1 - 17)

New Zealand selection including Macgregor "Petticoat Pioneers: North Island Women of the Colonial Era"

Lot: 57

  • Auction Date: Wed 21st Sep 2016 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £50 - £60
SOLD £66
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New Zealand selection including Macgregor Petticoat Pioneers: North Island Women of the Colonial Era,  1973-75, two volumes in dustjackets; John Grainger The Amazing Thames, 1951; Flora Spurdle New Stories of Old Whanganui, 1959, wraps; and Gillespie South Canterbury: A Record of Settlement, 1958, in d/jkt. Also John Foster Fraser Round the World on a Wheel, 1916, pictorial cloth. (13)

John Goss "The Mapmaker's Art: A History of Cartography" Studio Editions, 1993,

Lot: 82

  • Auction Date: Wed 21st Sep 2016 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £15 - £20
SOLD £10
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John Goss The Mapmaker’s Art: A History of Cartography Studio Editions, 1993, large format h/b in d/jkt, superb illustrations Including fold-out maps. 

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)

Henry Hall "Manual of South African Geography" Saul Solomon, Cape Town, 1866, 2nd Edn,

Lot: 87

  • Auction Date: Wed 21st Sep 2016 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £40 - £50
UNSOLD
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Henry Hall Manual of South African Geography Saul Solomon, Cape Town, 1866, 2nd Edn, small octavo, original blind-tooled cloth, gilt, good; folding map; few ink annotations to the Appendix. vii + 192pp 

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)

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)

George Abraham "Motor Ways in Lakeland" Methuen 1913, some foxing especially to prelims;

Lot: 91

  • Auction Date: Wed 21st Sep 2016 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £40 - £50
SOLD £56
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George Abraham Motor Ways in Lakeland Methuen 1913, some foxing especially to prelims; W. Bezant Lowe The Heart of Northern Wales, 1912; Gordon Home The Motor Routes of England – Southern Section, and Western Section, 1909-1911; Ella & Florence Du Cane The Canary Islands, A. & C. Black, 1911, half-title foxed; and another. All first editions. (6)

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

Charles Forbes "Iceland: its Volcanoes, Geysers, and Glaciers" John Murray, 1860, half-leather, folding map, fair condition;

Lot: 93

  • Auction Date: Wed 21st Sep 2016 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £50 - £60
SOLD £36
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Charles Forbes Iceland: its Volcanoes, Geysers, and Glaciers John Murray, 1860, half-leather, folding map, fair condition; John Gibson Great Waterfalls, Cataracts, and Geysers, T. Nelson, 1887, gilt cloth, VG; Edwin Balch Glacieres or Freezing Caverns, 1970 reprint; and E.B. Bailey Tectonic Essays, Mainly Alpine, 1968 reprint in d/jkt. (4)

John Judd "Volcanoes: What They Are and What They Teach" 1885, 3rd Edn; Mungo Ponton "Earthquakes and Volcanoes"1872, new edition;

Lot: 94

  • Auction Date: Wed 21st Sep 2016 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £50 - £60
SOLD £42
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John Judd Volcanoes: What They Are and What They Teach 1885, 3rd Edn; Mungo Ponton Earthquakes and Volcanoes 1872, new edition; and six other related titles, all bar one 19th century. (8)

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) 

Edouard Alfred Martel "Irlande, et Cavernes Anglaises", Delagrave, Paris, 1897, 1st Edn, signed & inscribed by the author,

Lot: 97

  • Auction Date: Wed 21st Sep 2016 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £100 - £150
UNSOLD
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Edouard Alfred Martel Irlande, et Cavernes Anglaises, Delagrave, Paris, 1897, 1st Edn, signed & inscribed by the author, in original worn wraps, uncut two sides, fine internally with many illustrations & three folding maps;contained in a fine cloth-covered case with gilt leather titles; together with two others on caves & caving. (3)

Alpine Maps 1910-1911, a selection published Edward Stanford (3) and Schweiz Landestopographie,

Lot: 98

  • Auction Date: Wed 21st Sep 2016 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £15 - £20
UNSOLD
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Alpine Maps 1910-1911, a selection published Edward Stanford (3) and Schweiz Landestopographie, all dissected, linen-backed folding types,of areas around Theodulpass, Interlaken, Rhone Valley, and Sion. In card covers.(4)

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)

Selection of 1920s & 1930s Prize Bindings, full (2), half (3) or quarter blue calf and gilt,

Lot: 105

  • Auction Date: Wed 21st Sep 2016 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £40 - £50
SOLD £56
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Selection of 1920s & 1930s Prize Bindings, full (2), half (3) or quarter blue calf and gilt, all with coats of arms to front cover; including The Forsyte Saga, The Wonders of Salvage, Lord Jim, and Reeves The Long White Cloud. (8)