Souvenir De Pau Lourdes Bétharam

. Hard Cover. Attractive oblong publisher's photograph album 15 x 23.5 cm. Inscription dated September 1885. Contains 12 actual mounted photographs of Pau & Lourdes. Minor staining to first photograph else near fine copy in original red cloth gilt.

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Book number: 001418

Catalogue: Antiquarian

ABRAHAM, GEORGE

British Mountain Climbs

1909, First Edition. Hard Cover. First edn, 1909. Sm 8vo, 448p. Plates & diagrams. New endpapers, VG in original red cloth. Neate A02, 'a rock climbing guide book, readable as a history'. Classic photo guide.

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Book number: 001459

Catalogue: Mountaineering & Mountain Travel

ABRAHAM, GEORGE

The Complete Mountaineer

1907, First Edition. Hard Cover. First edn, Methuen, 1907. Thick 8vo, xvi, 493p, 40p cat. 75 photo plates. Inscr. VG in original cloth gilt. Neate A03. A great mountaineering classic by the Keswick photographer.

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Book number: 001886

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ABRAHAM, GEORGE & ASHLEY

Rock Climbing in North Wales

1906, First Edition. Hard Cover. First edn, Abraham, Keswick, 1906. 8vo, xxii, 394p, 4p ads. 30 plates from Abraham photographs, 10 pen & ink sketches & 11 outline drawings. Minor light foxing, nr fine in original cloth gilt. Neate A08 '(their) most important work, classic'.

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Book number: 001706

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Keywords: Mountaineering

ABRAHAM, GEORGE D [ THE KESWICK BROTHERS ]

Swiss Mountain Climbs & British Mountain Climbs 2 Vols

First Edition. Hard Cover. Mills & Boon, first edn, 1909 & 4th edn 1937. Sm 8vo, 432p & 448p. Plates & diagrams. Nr fine copies in original cloth with similar scarce dustwrappers. Neate A 09 and A 02, 'basically a guidebook but readable as a history'. Classic set.

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Book number: 001799

Catalogue: Mountaineering & Mountain Travel

ADAMS, ANSEL & OTHERS

Summit - Vittorio Sella Mountaineer & Photographer the Years 1879 - 1909

Aperture. 1999, First Edition. (ISBN: 0893818089) Hard Cover. First edn, Aperture, USA, 1999. Large format, 144p. Fine copy in similar unclipped dustwrapper. Very attractive photo plates by Sella, some folding.

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Book number: 001614

Catalogue: Mountaineering & Mountain Travel

Keywords: 0893818089

AIKIN, ARTHUR & CHARLES ROCHEMONT

A Dictionary of Chemistry and Mineralogy, with an account of the Processes employed in many of the most important Chemical Manufactures. To which are added a description of Chemical Apparatus...

1807, First Edition. Hard Cover. First edn, 2 vols, London, for J Arch & W Phillips, 1807. 4to, viii, 628p; iv, 580p. 15 engraved plates. Bkplt. Withdrawn from University College London Library. Some dampstaining, a few page edges repaired inc prelims vol 1, small neat stamp on spines & back of plates, a good set in old black buckram, gilt lettered. Both brothers are listed in DNB: Arthur 'Chemist, a pioneer of the Geological Society, Fellow of Linnean Society'; Charles 'Doctor, wrote also on Cowpox'. A scarce set.

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Book number: 001765

Catalogue: History of Science

ANDERSON, SIR CHARLES

An Eight Weeks' Journal in Norway etc in 1852, with Rough Outlines

1853, First Edition. Hard Cover. First edn, Francis & John Rivington, London, 1853. 8vo, x, 124p. Errata slip, 33 etched plates including map. Sm inscr on half-title, new endpapers, nr fine copy in original blind-stamped brown cloth. Scarce.

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Book number: 001725

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ANON

Authentic Narratives of Most Calamitous Shipwrecks and Disasters at Sea

. Hard Cover. First ed, William Walker, Otley & London, n.d. [ca 1840]. Sm 8vo, 253p, 1p contents. Engraved frontispiece & title vignette. Small hardware company stamp, slight wear & browning, VG in original cloth gilt. Scarce, only 2 copies on COPAC.

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Book number: 001401

Catalogue: Antiquarian

ANON

Bible Natural History containing a description of Quadrupeds, Birds, Trees, Plants, Insects Etc

. Hard Cover. First ed, Webb Millington, London, 1852. 8vo, colour frontis & colour title, title, ii, 320p. 165 coloured plates by Fawcett of Driffield. Some browning, VG clean copy. Contemporary black half-calf, marbled boards & endpapers. Scarce.

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Book number: 001572

Catalogue: History of Science

ANON

English Forests & Forest Trees Historical, Legendary & Descriptive

1853. Hard Cover. First edn, London, Ingram Cooke, 1853. 8vo, xvi - 406p. Engravings. Nr fine, nice book in attractive binding - green morocco spine, raised bands, retaining original boards & spine title.

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Book number: 001395

Catalogue: Antiquarian

ANON

Histoire des Principales Découvertes faites dans les Arts et les Sciences, sur-tout dans les Branches importantes du Commerce, de la Navigation & des Plantations dans toutes les Parties du Monde.

Duplain, Lyon, First Edition. Hard Cover. First edn thus, Lyon, Duplain, 1767. Sm 8vo, xx, 396p, 4p approbation. Bookplate, wear to edges, minor old browning & a few damp-stains else a good copy in old 1/4 calf gilt. Early voyages and commerce.

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Book number: 001718

Catalogue: History of Science

ANON

The History of Lady Godiva & Peeping Tom of Coventry .

. Printer Wrapper. 5th edn, Tomkinson, Coventry, 1877. Sq 8vo, 48p, folding frontispiece & 9 engraved plates. Original printed covers & pink endpapers. Slight wear, a good clean copy of a rare Victorian survival. Only one copy of this edition on COPAC.

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Book number: 001386

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ANON

The Life of Napoleon Bonaparte : late Emperor of France, from his birth in 1769 to his arrival in Elba containing an account of his parents, education, preferment, battles, etc, interspersed with numerous and interesting Anecdotes

Berwick, 1815. Hard Cover. Fourth edn with additions, Berwick, 1815. 8vo, 584p. Frontis & 8 engraved folding maps. Minor spotting to endpapers, light browning, near fine in contemporary full polished calf, gilt label.

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Book number: 001707

Catalogue: Antiquarian

ANON

Tyrolese Scenery or Continental Travels, Illustrated with Fine Steel Engravings with Descriptive Letterpress

First Edition. Hard Cover. First edn, Black & Armstrong, London, n.d. (ca 1870). 4to, 72p, 6 attractive steel engraved plates of Tyrol by Shepherd & Tombleson. Bkplt. Title page browned, some mainly light foxing, inner hinges strengthened at some time else VG in original green cloth gilt. All edges gilt. Scarce.

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Book number: 001085

Catalogue: Mountaineering & Mountain Travel

ANSTED, PROF D T (F.R.S.)

Geological Science including the Practice of Geology & the Elements of Physical Geography

1854, First Edition. Cloth. First ed, Griffin & Co, London, 1854. 8vo, x, 302p. Text engravings. Queen's Prize bookplate. Minor wear, VG orig cloth gilt card covers, embossed 'Circle of the Sciences. Geology'. Scarce, only one copy on Copac. Prof Ansted was a popular author of geology books.

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Book number: 001708

Catalogue: History of Science

Keywords: Geology

ARAGO, FRANCOIS

Biographies of distinguished Scientific Men

1857, First Edition. Hard Cover. First Eng edn, London : Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans, & Roberts, 1857. 8vo, viii, 607p, 24p cat. Inscr. Neatly recased with new green cloth spine & paper label, small University stamp on title, VG with original blind-stamped cloth boards. Biographies of Arago, Bailly, Herchel, Laplace, Joseph Fourier, Carnot, Malus, Fresnel, Thomas Young and James Watt.

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Book number: 001337

Catalogue: History of Science

ASHTON, J R & STOCKS, F R

The Open-Air Guide for Wayfarers

First Edition. Hard Cover. First edn, Manchester, ca 1927. Sm 8vo, nr fine in VG dustwrapper. An attractive early guide with plates & folding map.

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Book number: 001800

Catalogue: Mountaineering & Mountain Travel

AULDJO, JOHN

Narrative of an Ascent to the Summit of Mont Blanc

First Thus. Hard Cover. 4to, Libraria Alpina 1972 reprint of 1828 text. No 164 of 220 copies. 4to, 120p, maps & plates. Fine copy in attractive faux red morocco, spine gilt in compartments. Neate A72 'His book was the first to popularise Mont Blanc'.

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Book number: 001564

Catalogue: Mountaineering & Mountain Travel

AZEMA, M A

The Conquest of Fitzroy

1957, First Edition. Hard Cover. First Eng edn, Deutsch, 1957. 8vo, 237p. Plates. Endpapers cery slightly browned, nr finein similar unclipped dustwrapper. Successful Patagonian first ascent by Terray & Magnone. Neate A28. Perret 0204 'tres grands exploits'.

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Book number: 001757

Catalogue: Mountaineering & Mountain Travel

BABBAGE, CHARLES

The Ninth Bridgewater Treatise. A Fragment

1837, First Edition. Hard Cover. First edn, London, John Murray, 1837. 8vo, [iv], xxii, 23-244p. Complete with half-title & final 4p of corrections. Old half-calf, marbled boards & gilt title label, slightly rubbed & upper hinge beginning to crack, else a Very Good nice clean copy of this seminal work. Frequent references to his 'Calculating Engine' in a work which 'vindicated the serviceableness of mathematics to religion' (DNB). Knight p 147 'of importance for its discussion of induction, laws of nature, and free will in terms of the programming of a computer'.

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Book number: 000696

Catalogue: History of Science

[ BADCOCK, WILLIAM ] & REYNOLDS, JOHN

A Touch-Stone for Gold & Silver Wares - bound with - Tables to Cast Up Silver & Gold

1678. Hard Cover. Second edn, with additions, London 1678. Sm 8vo, frontispiece of Goldsmiths works, xx, 218p. Some text in Black Letter. Inscr, title page repaired with loss at foot, else VG clean copy in recent 1/2 calf gilt with old worn marbled boards & old labels. The Tables are unpaginated, frontispiece, A1 - K3. With a brief description of an assay furnace. John Reynolds worked at the Mint in the Tower of London.

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Book number: 001631

Catalogue: History of Science

Keywords: Chemistry

BAIN, JOSEPH

The Border Papers. Calendar of Letters & Papers Relating to the Affairs of the Borders of England & Scotland Preserved in Her Majesty's Public Record Office London

1894, First Edition. Hard Cover. First edn, 2 vols, H M General Register House, Edinburgh, 1894 & 1896. Large 8vo, vol I 1560-1594, xlv, 762p; vol II 1595-1603, xxvii, 960p. Worcester Public Library label on pastedowns & small label on spines, occasional small discrete stamps, browning to edges, inner hinges cracked but holding firm, sl wear else a good clean set in original blind-stamped blue cloth gilt. Fraser p392 'For anyone who wants to see the Border Reivers almost at first hand there can be no substitute for the Calendar of Border Papers, which contains the letters & reports of the English Wardens of the Marches in Elizabeth's time'. A scarce set.

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Book number: 001627

Catalogue: Antiquarian

BAKER, E A

The British Highlands with Rope and Rucksack

1933, First Edition. Hard Cover. First edn, Witherby, 1933. 8vo, 236p, plates. Minor light foxing but a very bright nr fine copy in original cloth gilt. Neate B09. Classic, with the epic ascent of Ben Nuis Chimney on Arran in 1901, a route not repeated for over fifty years.

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Book number: 001874

Catalogue: Mountaineering & Mountain Travel

BAKER, G P

Mountaineering Memories of the Past

. Hard Cover. 8vo, 62p, 15 plates. Privately printed, 1951. 2nd enlarged edn. A fine copy in similar dustwrapper of a rare book. Neate B14 'Baker's expeditions included Ararat, the Caucasus and the Canadian Rockies, where he climbed with Collie'.

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Book number: 001884

Catalogue: Mountaineering & Mountain Travel