BAILLIE GROHMAN, W A

Tyrol and the Tyrolese the people and the land in their social, sporting and mountaineering Aspects

1876, 1st Edition. Hardcover. Book, First edn, Longmans Green, London, 1876. 8vo, xvi, 278p, 2p cat. Eng plates. Inscr. Neat publisher's presentation copy blind-stamp to title. VG in original green cloth gilt. Perret 0221 'ouvrage classique'. With winter ascent of the Gross Glockner. Very Good.

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Book number: 001040

Catalogue: Mountaineering and Mountain Travel

Keywords: Alps

GYGER, W J

Guide to Climbs in the Upper Engadine

1925. Hardcover. Book, 3rd edn, Engadine Press, Samaden and St Moritz, n.d. [1925]. Sm 8vo, 102p. Diagrams & English Romansch glossary. Inscr, nr fine in original attractive colour pictorial soft cloth covers. A rare climbing guide, translated from the German. Very Good.

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Book number: 001503

Catalogue: Mountaineering and Mountain Travel

Keywords: Engadine Mountaineering

HALLIWELL, J O (FRS) & WRIGHT, THOMAS

A Collection of Letters Illustrative of the Progress of Science in England from the Reign of Queen Elizabeth to that of Charles the Second with Popular Treatises on Science written during the Middle Ages, in Anglo-Saxon, Anglo-Norman & English

. Hardcover. Book, 2 vols in one, 124p, 140p. Reprint of 1841 text, Dawsons, 1965. The whole of the publications of the first History of Science Society ever formed. Nr fine copy in original black cloth gilt. Very Good.

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Book number: 001599

Catalogue: History of Science

HANKINSON (ED), BONINGTON, BOYSEN, HASTON, SANDU, SCOTT

Changabang - Signed

Heinemann Educational Publishers. 1975, 1st Edition. (ISBN: 0435860011) Hardcover. Book, First edn, Heinemann, 1975. 4to, x, 118p. Plates, some in colour. Fine copy in similar unclipped dustwrapper. Inscribed and SIGNED by author Alan Hankinson. Fine. Signed by Author(s).

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Book number: 001187

Catalogue: Mountaineering and Mountain Travel

Keywords: 0435860011

HARDING, WARREN 'BATSO'.

Downward Bound : Mad Guide to Rock Climbing.

1975. Soft cover. Book, Prentice-Hall, N. J. 1975. Paperback, 8vo, 204p. Illustrated by Beryl 'Beasto' Knauth. Pictorial cover, slight wear, generally VG. Very Good.

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Book number: 002128

Catalogue: Mountaineering and Mountain Travel

HARVARD, A AND THOMPSON, T

Mountain of Storms the American Expeditions to Dhaulagiri 1969 and 1973

1st Edition. Hardcover. Book, First edn, 1974. 4to, 210p. Plates, some in colour. Nr fine in similar unclipped dustwrapper. Neate H 47. Signed by W R Neate, the mountaineering books bibliographer. Very Good.

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Book number: 001079

Catalogue: Mountaineering and Mountain Travel

HASTIE, W [ WRIGHT, THOMAS ]

Kant's Cosmogony as in his essay on the retardation of the rotation of the earth and his Natural history and theory of the heavens. With introduction, appendices, and a portrait of Thomas Wright of Durham

1900, 1st Edition. Hardcover. Book, First edn, Glasgow, Maclehose, 1900. 8vo, cix, 205p, 2p cat. University bookplate, neat stamps on endpaper & title page, & faint chalk mark on spine, eps browned else VG clean copy in original blue cloth. With 25 pages on Thomas Wright of Durham. Very Good.

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Book number: 001630

Catalogue: History of Science

HECKMAIR, A

My Life as a Mountaineer.

1st Edition. Hardcover. Book, First Eng edn, 1975. 8vo, 224p. Plates. Nr fine in similar dustwrapper. Classic including the 1st ascent of the Eiger North Face. Near Fine.

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Book number: 001901

Catalogue: Mountaineering and Mountain Travel

Keywords: Alps

HEIM, A & GANSSER, A

The Throne of the Gods an Account of the First Swiss Expedition to the Himalayas

1939, 1st Edition. Hardcover. Book, First edn, NY, Macmillan, 1939. Tall 8vo, xxvi, 236p. Maps & 220 photo plates. Nr fine copy in original green cloth. Neate H69 'Superbly illustrated - Tibet'. Perret 2208. Very Good.

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Book number: 001300

Catalogue: Mountaineering and Mountain Travel

Keywords: Tibet

HODY, HUMPHREY

De Bibliorum Textibus Originalibus, Versionibus Graecis , & Latina Vulgata

Oxford: e Theatro Sheldoniano. 1705, 1st Edition. Hardcover. Book, First edn, Oxford, e Theatro Sheldoniano, 1705. Large folio, [xii], xxxvi, 664p. Fine engraved portrait frontispiece (Forster/Gucht) & engraving on title. Greek & Latin text, four books in one. Bkplt. Original panelled calf boards rather worn, strongly rebacked in speckled calf, raised bands, unlettered. Internally very clean VG copy. English scholar and theologian. Very Good.

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Book number: 001731

Catalogue: Antiquarian

VISSER-HOOFT, JENNY AND VISSER, PH. C.

Among the Kara-Koram Glaciers in 1925.

1926, 1st Edition. Hardcover. Book, First ed, Arnold, London, 1926. 8vo, xii, 303p. 25 plates, text map and folding map at end. Spine evenly faded else nr fine copy in original cloth gilt. Neate V19 ' Their second Karakoram expedition, exploring the Batura, Hispar and Shimshal glaciers'. Perret 4488 'Ouvrage important et peu courant'. Very Good.

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Book number: 002109

Catalogue: Mountaineering and Mountain Travel

HOOKER, JOSEPH DALTON & BALL, JOHN.

Journal of a Tour in Marocco [ Morocco ] and the Great Atlas.

1878, 1st Edition. Hardcover. Book, First edn, Macmillan, London, 1878. 8vo, xvi, 499p, 39p cat. Panorama frontispiece, folding geological diagram by George Maw, engraved plates, large folding map at end. New endpapers and neat minor repair to head and tail of spine, slight wear, VG in original pictorial cloth gilt, with gilt vignette to upper board. Scarce classic on Morocco & the Atlas mountains. Neate H109. Perret 2277 'uncommon'. Very Good.

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Book number: 001859

Catalogue: Mountaineering and Mountain Travel

HOOKHAM, THOMAS JUN.

A walk through Switzerland in September 1816.

1818, 1st Edition. Hardcover. Book, First edn, for T Hookham, London, 1818. Sm 8vo, vi, 242p, 2 folding maps with route marked in red. Dedication addressed to Mrs C. L. by the author. VG in slight wear, old half-cloth, marbled boards. Partly unopened. Not in Neate or Perret. Privately printed by Hookham, the London bookseller & publisher who also published 'History of a six week's tour' in 1817 by Mary & Percy Shelley. Rare. Very Good.

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Book number: 001972

Catalogue: Mountaineering and Mountain Travel

HOOPER, EGBERT G.

Manual of Brewing Scientific and Technical.

1891. Hardcover. Book, 4th edn, Sheppard & St John, London, 1891. 8vo, 6p ads, xviii, 366p, indexes, 8p ads. includes 110p Addendum. Slight wear, inner hinges strengthened, some light pencil annotation, VG in original cloth gilt. Very Good.

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Book number: 002190

Catalogue: History of Science

HORROCKS, JEREMIAH - HORROX - WHATTON, REV A B

The Transit of Venus Across the Sun: a Translation of the Celebrated Discourse Thereupon by Jeremiah Horrox, to which is Prefixed a Memoir of his Life and Labours by the Rev A B Whatton

1859. Hardcover. Book, First edn, second issue with variant title page, London, William Macintosh, n.d. [ ca 1859]. Sm 8vo, xvi, 216p, 3 diagrams (one folding). Preface i-xvi, Memoir of Jeremiah Horrox p1-107, The Transit of Venus over the Sun p 109-216. Inscr, with extensive annotation in margins (mainly in the Memoir) in light pencil, 2 mounted newspaper cuttings, but still a nice clean copy. Neatly recased at some time, with neat repairs to head & tail of spine, new eendpapers, in the original blind-stamped cloth, gilt lettered 'Horrox's Memoirs'. DNB: 'When Curate of Hoole, Horrocks predicted and observed the transit of Venus across the sun 24 Nov 1639'. Very scarce astronomy. Very Good.

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Book number: 001982

Catalogue: History of Science