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I'll Climb Mount Everest Alone the Story of Maurice Wilson.
1957. Hardcover. Book, First edn, London, Robert Hale Ltd, 1957. 8vo, 158p. Plates. Fine copy in similar unclipped dustwrapper. Neate R46. Classic solo attempt on Everest in 1934 by the British soldier, mystic and aviator. His body and diary were found by the Shipton reconnaissance expedition 1935. Near Fine.
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GBP 135.00 [Appr.: EURO 163 US$ 170.8 | JP¥ 25624]
Catalogue: Mountaineering and Mountain Travel
An Essay towards a Natural History of Westmorland and Cumberland. Wherein an account is given of their several mineral and surface productions, with some directions how to discover minerals by the external and adjacent strata and upper covers, &c. To which is annexed, a vindication of the philosophical and theological paraphrase of the Mosaick system of the creation, &c.
1709, 1st Edition. Hardcover. Book, First edn, London, Freeman, 1709. 8vo, [xvi], 95p, 118p, 2p ads. Contemporary panelled calf, neat old reback, raised bands, gilt title. Slight wear, mainly to corners, VG. Small inscr 'J A Marshall'. Partial bookplate of Smart Lethieullier, English antiquary. Important early geology and mineralogy. Very Good.
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GBP 750.00 [Appr.: EURO 904.75 US$ 948.91 | JP¥ 142358]
Catalogue: History of Science
A Guide to the Lakes in Cumberland, Westmorland and Lancashire illustrated with twenty views..
1819, 1st Edition. Hardcover. Book, First edn, London, Lackington et al, 1819. 8vo, [iv], 328p Folding hand-coloured map and 20 attractive engraved plates. Inscr 'J E Hargreaves, Kendal' with some light pencil annotation. VG clean copy in contemp half-calf, gilt lettering, marbled boards, Bicknell 89.1. Very Good.
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GBP 195.00 [Appr.: EURO 235.25 US$ 246.72 | JP¥ 37013]
Catalogue: Lake District
Cain's Lamentations over Abel in six books.
Sabine & Son, Shoe Lane, Fleet Street, London. 1800. Hardcover. Book, First edn, Sabine & Son, Shoe Lane, Fleet Street, London, n.d. [ca 1800]. Sm 8vo, frontispiece, 215p. Slight browning else VG in recent marbled paper wrappers. According to ESTC T498243, R.C. Rogers is Rowland Cotton. Scarce. Very Good.
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GBP 150.00 [Appr.: EURO 181 US$ 189.78 | JP¥ 28472]
Catalogue: Antiquarian
Keywords: Bible Theology
Ski - Runs in the High Alps.
1913, 1st Edition. Hardcover. Book, First edn, Fisher Unwin, London, 1913. 8vo, 312p, 4p ads. Coloured frontispiece, 24 plates and 6 folding maps. Small ownership stamp of John P Manry on endpaper. Near fine copy in original pictorial cloth gilt, top edge gilt. Neate R65 'the principal book in English by one who was outstanding among the pioneers of ski mountaineering'. Perret 3748 'peu courant et recherché'. Alpine classic. Near Fine.
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GBP 345.00 [Appr.: EURO 416.25 US$ 436.5 | JP¥ 65485]
Catalogue: Mountaineering and Mountain Travel
Spectrum Analysis
. Hardcover. Book, 4th edn, revised & considerably enlarged, Macmillan, London, 1885. 8vo, xvi, 452p. Plates, some in colour, text engravings. Small unobtrusive label on spine, spine v sl dull else near fine copy in original pictorial cloth gilt, with mounted spectrum on front board. Top edge gilt. An important work on chemical and astronomical spectroscopy. Knight p234 ' Spectrum Analysis became a standard work'. Very Good.
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GBP 85.00 [Appr.: EURO 102.75 US$ 107.54 | JP¥ 16134]
Catalogue: History of Science
A Treatise on Chemistry. 9 vols, complete set.
. Hardcover. Book, 9 vols, 8vo, London, Macmillan & Co, 1888-1892. Vol I 'Non-metallic elements', 779p, portrait frontispiece of Dalton and text engravings. Vol II 'Metals', 2 vols 1887 & 1889. 504p, 536p, text engravings. The first three vols have prize bookplate of W H Houghton, Huddersfield Technical School on endpapers & gilt stamp on front board. Vol III 'Organic Chemistry', 6 vols, most first edition, 1881- 1892. 724p, 755p, 388p, 544p, 523p, 582p. Vol 2 has lighter cloth, 2 vols have a small University stamp & 1 vol has new endpapers. Some slight wear, a VG complete set of the author's works. Knight p 234 - 'The great standard textbook of the late nineteenth century'. Very Good.
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GBP 658.75 [Appr.: EURO 794.75 US$ 833.46 | JP¥ 125038]
Catalogue: History of Science
Eiger Wall of Death
1st Edition. Hardcover. Book, First edn, Gollancz, London, 1982. Hardback, large 8vo, 351p. Illus. Fine copy in similar unclipped dustwrapper. Neate R78. Modern classic on the history of climbing on the North Face of the Eiger. Fine.
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GBP 45.00 [Appr.: EURO 54.5 US$ 56.93 | JP¥ 8541]
Catalogue: Mountaineering and Mountain Travel
Electric Meteorology.
1886, 1st Edition. Hardcover. Book, First edn thus, privately printed for the author, Oxford, 1886. 8vo, ca 225p, fldg diags. Offset browning to p1 else nr fine copy in original dark purple cloth gilt. 2p followed by 18 separately paginated publications including 'Lecture on the Storm in Wiltshire, Dec 30 1859'; 'On the Storm in the Isle of Wight, Sept 28 1876'; 'Electric Meteorology - an endeavour to show the general agency of electricity in the cause of rain & its allied phenomena, 1881'. DNB - George Augustus Rowell 1804 - 1892, meteorologist. COPAC lists copies at Oxford, Imperial, British Library only. An excellent copy of a rare book. Near Fine.
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GBP 293.25 [Appr.: EURO 353.75 US$ 371.02 | JP¥ 55662]
Catalogue: History of Science
Keywords: Weather
Everest the Unfinished Adventure
1937, 1st Edition. Hardcover. Book, First edn, 1937. Tall 8vo. With 2 maps & 63 plates. Nr fine bright copy in original blue cloth gilt. Neate R100. Near Fine.
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GBP 95.00 [Appr.: EURO 114.75 US$ 120.2 | JP¥ 18032]
Catalogue: Mountaineering and Mountain Travel
The Pyramids and Temples of Gizeh.
1883, 1st Edition. Hardcover. Book, First edn, London, Field & Tuer, Ye Leadenhalle Presse; Simpkin, Marshall & Co; Hamilton Adams & Co; New York, Scribner & Welford, 1883. 4to, xvi, 250p. Complete with frontispiece and 16 diagrammatic plates. Recent quarter cloth, marbled boards, paper label. Small library number on title and faint stamps throughout of the Leeds Mechanics' Institution and Literary Society [1841-1897]. See DNB:- Sir William Matthew Flinders Petrie 1893- 1942. Egyptologist. He was a pioneer of systematic methodology in archeology and the preservation of artefacts. He held the first chair of Egyptology in the UK and excavated many of the most important sites in Egypt. Rare. Very Good.
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GBP 1795.00 [Appr.: EURO 2165.5 US$ 2271.06 | JP¥ 340710]
Catalogue: History of Science
Contes A Pic.
1952. Soft cover. Book, Nouvelle edn, Arthaud, 1952. Paperback, 283p, ten plates by Samivel. Minor marking , near fine in similar dustwrapper With the 'Grand Prix Litteraire, Nice, 1952' dustwrapper band. Inscribed and SIGNED by the author. Near Fine. Signed by Author(s).
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GBP 95.00 [Appr.: EURO 114.75 US$ 120.2 | JP¥ 18032]
Catalogue: Mountaineering and Mountain Travel
The Journal of the Fell & Rock Climbing Club of the English Lake District Volume 1
1st Edition. Hardcover. Book, Volume 1, 1907 - 1909. 3 issues. 8vo, 334p Index. Plates. Inscr. Sl wear else VG clean copy in attractive contemporary red half-calf gilt. Classic early climbing by the pioneers. Very Good.
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GBP 95.00 [Appr.: EURO 114.75 US$ 120.2 | JP¥ 18032]
Catalogue: Mountaineering and Mountain Travel
The Plant a Biography . In Thirteen Lectures.
1853. Hardcover. Book, Second Eng edn, Bailliere, London, 1853. 8vo, 2p cat, viii, 422p, 12p cat. Seven colour plates & 16 wood engs. Slight foxing mainly to back of frontispiece, else nr fine nice copy in original blind-stamped blue cloth gilt. Very Good.
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GBP 63.75 [Appr.: EURO 77 US$ 80.66 | JP¥ 12100]
Catalogue: History of Science
The Bavarian Highlands & the Salzkammergut
1874, 1st Edition. Hardcover. Book, First edn, Chapman & Hall, 1874. Large format, folio, viii, 205p. Attractive text illustrations & 29 plates. Some light spotting to back of plates, minor wear to head & tail of spine, VG bright copy in original blue cloth gilt. An attractive and scarce book on the Bavarian Alps region. Very Good.
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GBP 120.00 [Appr.: EURO 145 US$ 151.83 | JP¥ 22777]
Catalogue: Mountaineering and Mountain Travel
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