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Auction No 362, Tag: Alps

5 Lots (displaying 1 - 5)

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)

"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)

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

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)