GILBERT, CHRISTOPHER

The Life and Works of Thomas Chippendale

1978. Hardcover. Book, Artline Editions, Bristol, UK, 1978. 4to, 21 x 29 cm, x, 144, 288p. Many b/w illustrations. Additional colour illustrations and auction records loosely inserted. Nr fine in an attractive full-calf gilt binding, gilt title piece and spine gilt in compartments. Marbled endpapers. Very Good.

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Book number: 002021

Catalogue: Fine Bindings

GIRDLESTONE, REV A G

The High Alps without Guides a Narrative of Adventures in Switzerland

1870, 1st Edition. Hardcover. Book, First ed, London, Longmans, 1870. Tall 8vo, x, 181p, 2p ads. Frontispiece & 2 fldg maps with route marked in red. Neatly rebacked, new endpapers at some time, slight wear to rear edge, maps small neat repair, else VG clean copy. Neate G30 'Probably less than 100 copies. Rev Girdlestone was an enthusiastic but inept climber who had a number of lucky escapes. The Alpine Club hold his unpublished letters, some of which tell of his involvement with the Matterhorn tragedy'. Perret 1947 'Important et Rare'. Very Good.

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Book number: 001737

Catalogue: Mountaineering and Mountain Travel

JUSTITIA [ GLADSTONE ]

A Voice From the North or a Humorous Account of an Interview between John Bull and the Rt Hon. W. E. Gladstone on the Repeal of the Malt Tax, & Its Effects on Farms, Brewers & Licensed Victuallers

1st Edition. Hardcover. Book, First edn, Reid, Newcastle-upon Tyne, n.d. [ca 1850]. Sq 8vo, 23p, satirical verse, rare (not in Copac). Bound with 'New Gleanings from Gladstone', first edn, Blackwood, Edinburgh, n.d. 30p, satirical engravings. Old blue cloth gilt, minor wear else VG nice copy. Very Good.

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Book number: 001680

Catalogue: Antiquarian

HUMPHREYS & GLASGOW

Carburetted Water Gas and Carbon Monoxide

1897, 1st Edition. Hardcover. Book, First edn, Humphreys & Glasgow, London & New York, [1897]. Tall 8vo, 95p. Endpapers slightly browned, VG in original gilt card covers. No 7 in a Series by Humphreys & Glasgow. Report on gas used for lighting & heating. With a letter on calorific power from Leeds Gas Department, 1915. Scarce. Very Good.

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Book number: 001569

Catalogue: History of Science

GOLDSMITH, OLIVER. REVISED BY REV J NICHOLLS.

The History of Rome. [ Binding ]

1824. Hardcover. Book, London, for I Walker etc, 1824. 8vo, xvi, 536p. Marbled endpapers. Attractively bound in full polished black calf gilt. Bookplate and Arms of Glasgow College later Glasgow Unviversity 'Via Veritas Vita'. Very Good.

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Book number: 002072

Catalogue: Antiquarian

GOODMAN, E J

New Ground in Norway Ringerike - Telemarken - Saetersdalen

1896, 1st Edition. Hardcover. Book, First edn, Newnes, London, 1896. 8vo, 224p, 24p cat. Fldg map. 56 photo plates by Paul Lange. Nr fine in original pictorial dark red cloth gilt. Vignette on upper board. Near Fine.

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Book number: 001625

Catalogue: Travel

GOODWIN, HARRY & KNIGHT, PROFESSOR

Through the Wordsworth Country.

1887, 1st Edition. Hardcover. Book, First edn, Swan Sonnenschein, Lowrey & Co, London, 1887. Large paper copy, 22 x 30cm, xx, 268p. Engraved frontispiece & 54 engraved plates by Harry Goodwin. Bkplt, marbled endpapers, minor slight wear to inner hinges. Minor light spotting to first 3 pages, else nr fine clean copy in attractive original pictorial green cloth gilt binding. Near Fine.

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Book number: 002011

Catalogue: Fine Bindings

Keywords: Lake District

GOS, CHARLES

Alpine Tragedy

1948, 1st Edition. Hardcover. Book, First Eng edn, GA & U, 1948. 8vo, x, 282p. Maps & plates. Nr fine in similar unclipped dustwrapper. Neate G36 'recounts over 20 well-known nineteenth Century Alpine accidents'. Perret 2003 'ouvrage classique'. Scarce in dw. Near Fine.

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Book number: 001849

Catalogue: Mountaineering and Mountain Travel

GOS, F

Zermatt and its Valley

1926. Hardcover. Book, First Eng edn, Cassel, 1926. 4to, 180p. Plates & coloured folding map. VG in original red 1/4 cloth gilt. Perret 2009. Zermatt & the Matterhorn, well illustrated. Neate G38. Very Good.

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Book number: 001475

Catalogue: Mountaineering and Mountain Travel

Keywords: Alps

GOTTHELF, JEREMIAS (ALBERT BITZIUS)

The Story of an Alpine Valley or Katie the Grandmother

1896, 1st Edition. Hardcover. Book, First Eng edn, Gibbings & Co, London, 1896. 8vo, 320p, 24p cat. Translated by L G Smith, text engravings by Jessie Caudwell. Large inscr, endpapers browned. sl fade, VG copy in original silver-decorative cloth. Set in Switzerland - a nice copy. Very scarce. Very Good.

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Book number: 000805

Catalogue: Mountaineering and Mountain Travel

GRAY, DENNIS

Rope Boy

1st Edition. Hardcover. Book, First edn, Gollancz, London, 1970. 8vo, 320p. Near fine copy in VG unclipped dustwrapper. Neate G46. Rock & Ice classic. Very Good.

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Book number: 001881

Catalogue: Mountaineering and Mountain Travel

GREENWOOD, WILLIAM H

A Manual of Metallurgy

1889. Hardcover. Book, 2nd edn, Collins Advanced Science, London & Glasgow, n.d.[ca 1889]. 2 vols, sm 8vo, 344p; 371p. Text engravings. Portsmouth Yard prize label & small neat Lords of Admiralty stamp. Slight wear. VG clean copies in contemporary half-calf. Very Good.

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Book number: 001763

Catalogue: History of Science

GRIBBLE, FRANCIS

The Early Mountaineers

1899, 1st Edition. Hardcover. Book, First edn, Fisher Unwin, 1899. 8vo, xiv, 338p. 48 plates. Slight browning to fore-edge, near fine copy in original blue cloth gilt. Top edge gilt and gilt vignette to upper board. Neate G67 'Authoritative & detailed record of pre-C19 mountaineering in the Alps & Pyrenees'. Perret 2056 'Peu courant, recherché'. Very Good.

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Book number: 001554

Catalogue: Mountaineering and Mountain Travel

Keywords: Alps

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