PILLEY, DOROTHY (MRS I A RICHARDS).

Climbing Days.

1935, 1st Edition. Hardcover. Book, First edn, Bell & Sons, London, 1935. 8vo, xiv, 352p. Plates. VG in good dustwrapper (slight wear to edges, neatly repaired, price-clipped) with illustration of climber's nailed boot. Neate P57. A great classic of mainly alpine mountaineering in the nineteen twenties. Very Good.

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Book number: 002130

Catalogue: Mountaineering and Mountain Travel

PLUCHE, ABBÉ TRANS J B DE FREVAL

The History of the Heavens.

1741. Hardcover. Book, 2 vols, 2nd edn, for J Osborn etc, London, 1741. 8vo, xii, 288p, 8p index; ii, 312p, 8p index, 92 p 'Revisal of the History of the Heavens'. Engraved plates. Hinges cracking but firm, one strengthened, VG in full contemporary calf, old manuscript vellum labels, bookplate of St Benedict's Abbey Library, Fort Augustus, Scotland. Philosophy and Egyptology including a discussion of Newton's Philosophy vol 2, p 189-224. Very Good.

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Book number: 002067

Catalogue: History of Science

PRICHARD, H HESKETH F.R.G.S.

Through the Heart of Patagonia.

1902, 1st Edition. Hardcover. Book, First edn, New York, Appleton & Co, 1902. Tall 8vo, xvi, 346p. Text illustrations & 40 plates (7 in colour, 4 in photogravure). Three folding maps. Small inscr, bookplate of Thomas Barbour. Slight wear, VG in original pictorial red cloth gilt. Very Good.

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Book number: 002089

Catalogue: Mountaineering and Mountain Travel

PRITCHARD, H BADEN

Tramps in the Tyrol

1874, 1st Edition. Hardcover. Book, First edn, Tinsley Bros, London, 1874. 8vo, frontis, vignette title, xii, 267p. Inscr, prelim page browned, new endpapers, minor wear & fading to spine & fore-edge else VG clean copy in original red cloth gilt. Gilt vignette of Alpenstock & equipment on upper board & spine, all edges gilt. Not in Neate & Perret. A nice copy. Scarce. Very Good.

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Book number: 001207

Catalogue: Mountaineering and Mountain Travel

Keywords: Alps Tirol

PROUT, WILLIAM F.R.S.

Chemistry, Meteorology and the Function of Digestion considered with reference to Natural Theology.

1834, 1st Edition. Hardcover. Book, First edn, London, William Pickering,1834. 8vo, xxiv, [iv], 564p, 1p table. Folding coloured map. Bridgewater Treatise VIII. Slight wear, VG in contemporary half-calf, marbled boards & endpapers. Spine in compartments with two red labels. DNB: Prout was one of the pioneers of physiological chemistry, & discovered hydrochloric acid in the stomach. The view that atomic weights of elements are multiples of that of hydrogen is known as 'Prout's Law'. Very Good.

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Book number: 002118

Catalogue: History of Science

PYE, SIR DAVID [ & ERIC BYNE ]

George Leigh Mallory a Memoir

1927, 1st Edition. Hardcover. Book, First edn, OUP, 1927. Sq 8vo, [xii], 183p. Engraved frontispiece & 5 plates. New endpapers, sl wear, VG in original cloth, printed paper label, spare label at end. Neate P112 'the most touching portrayal of one of the most enigmatic figures in mountaineering'. SIGNED on half-title by Eric Byne, author of High Peak. Very Good.

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Book number: 001883

Catalogue: Mountaineering and Mountain Travel

Keywords: Everest Mallory

QUINCY, JOHN M. D.

Pharmacopoeia Officinalis & Extemporanea or A Compleat English Dispensatory in Four Parts.

1722. Hardcover. Book, Fourth edn, much enlarged, London, for E Bell, W Taylor & J Osborn, 1722. 8vo, xvi, 674p, 60p index. Inscr, title page in good facsimile, slight darkening to edges else VG. Original panelled calf dec boards, neatly rebacked at some time (binder's ticket Riley, Dunn & Wilson) with raised bands and gilt title. A very comprehensive work, Part I is general chemistry. DNB - 'Quincy practised medicine as an apothecary and physician in London d.1722'. A nice copy of a scarce text. Very Good.

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Book number: 001135

Catalogue: History of Science

RATTI, ABATE ACHILLE [POPE PIUS XI]

Climbs on Alpine Peaks

1923, 1st Edition. Hardcover. Book, First edn, Fisher Unwin, 1923. 8vo, 136p. Plates. VG clean copy in orig blue cloth. Perret 3588. Very Good.

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Book number: 001830

Catalogue: Mountaineering and Mountain Travel

Keywords: Alps

RAWNSLEY, W F { ARMITT }

Rydal by the Late Miss Armitt

1916, 1st Edition. Hardcover. Book, First ed, Kendal, Wilson, 1916. Thick 8vo, xvi, 727p. Colour frontispiece, 14 plates, folding genealogy. New endpapers at some time. Slight wear, VG in original blue cloth lettered in black. Very Good.

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Book number: 002017

Catalogue: Lake District

REBUFFAT, GASTON

Starlight and Storm the Ascent of Six Great North Faces of the Alps

1956. Hardcover. Book, First Eng edn, Dent, 1956. 8vo, xxii, 122p. Plates. Near fine copy in similar unclipped dustwrapper. Neate R20 'His own ascents; expressive and lyrical'. An Alpine classic. Near Fine.

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Book number: 002088

Catalogue: Mountaineering and Mountain Travel

REES, JOAN.

Amelia Edwards Traveller, Novelist & Egyptologist.

1998. Hardcover. Book, First edn, Rubicon Press, London, 1998. 8vo, x, 112p. Plates. VG in similar unclipped dustwrapper.The first biography of Amelia Edwards. Very Good.

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Book number: 002138

Catalogue: Mountaineering and Mountain Travel

RENAULT, MARY

North Face

1st Edition. Hardcover. Book, First Eng edn, Longmans, London, 1949. Sm 8vo, 318p. Nr fine in VG unclipped dustwrapper. Novel. Neate X311. Near Fine.

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Book number: 001661

Catalogue: Mountaineering and Mountain Travel

SWISS FOUNDATION FOR ALPINE RESEARCH

The Mountain World. Ten Volumes. 10 Vols.

1st Edition. Hardcover. Book, First edn, 10 vols, 1953-1970. 4to, fine plates & maps. Minor old tape marks in some vols else a very good set in G/VG dustwrappers. A classic set. A heavy set - please enquire for shipping cost. Very Good.

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Book number: 001317

Catalogue: Mountaineering and Mountain Travel

REY, GUIDO

Peaks and Precipices Scrambles in the Dolomites and Savoy

1914. Hardcover. Book, First Eng edn, Fisher Unwin, London, 1914. Large format, 238p, photo plates. Minor light foxing, some wear & fading to binding else a good clean copy in original cloth gilt. In 3 parts - the Aiguilles of the Montanvert, the Towers of the Trentino & the Pala Group. Neate R26. Acrobatic alpinism!. Very Good.

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Book number: 001196

Catalogue: Mountaineering and Mountain Travel

RHIND, W G

The Six Days of Creation a Series of Familiar Letters from a father to his children describing the Natural History of each Day's Mercies

1860. Hardcover. Book, 4th edn, Broom, London, 1860. Sq 8vo, xx, 339p. Geographical Clock frontispiece with volvelle, 6 engraved plates. Inscr, inner hinge strengthened, slight browning in original green blind-stamped cloth, bright gilt spine, overall a VG copy. Lots of natural history, with some theology 'with particular reference to the illustration of Scriptural Truth'. Scarce in original attractive binding. Very Good.

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Book number: 001994

Catalogue: History of Science