COCKER, MICHAEL

Wasdale Climbing Book. A history of early rock climbing in the Lake District based on contemporary accounts from the Wastwater Hotel 1863-1919.

2006, 1st Edition. Hardcover. Book, First edition, Ernest Press & FRCC, 2006. 4to, 239p plus 146p facsimile pages. Near fine in similar pictorial unclipped dw. An attractive & well-illustrated history. Scarce. Near Fine.

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Boeknummer: 001841

Catalogus: Mountaineering and Mountain Travel

COLLIE, J NORMAN F.R.S.

Climbing on the Himalaya and other Mountain Ranges.

1902, 1st Edition. Hardcover. Book, First edn, Douglas, Edinburgh, 1902. 8vo, xii, 315p, 1p advert. Complete with 18 engraved plates and three folding maps. Fine copy in original dark-green cloth gilt. Neate C94 'Collie is one of the best-loved figures in British Mountaineering history'. This great classic includes Nanga Parbat with Mummery in 1895, as well as chapters on the Canadian Rockies, Alps, Lofoten, Skye, Ireland and Wastdale Head. Fine.

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Boeknummer: 001829

Catalogus: Mountaineering and Mountain Travel

COLLIE, J NORMAN AND STUTFIELD, HUGH

Climbs and Exploration in the Canadian Rockies

1903, 1st Edition. Hardcover. Book, First edn, Longmans, London, 1903. 8vo, xii, 343p. Complete with plates and folding coloured map. Bookplate of Shoreham Grammar School, gilt emblem on front board, nr fine copy in original cloth gilt. Neate S177 'One of the classics of the Canadian Rockies'. Very Good.

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Boeknummer: 001840

Catalogus: Mountaineering and Mountain Travel

CONWAY, SIR MARTIN

The Bolivian Andes a Record of Climbing & Exploration in the Cordillera Real in the Years 1898 and 1900

1901, 1st Edition. Hardcover. Book, First edn, Harper, London & New York, 1901. 8vo, x, 403p. New endpapers, VG clean copy in original cloth gilt. Top edge gilt. Neate C102 'The first major climbing expedition to the area'. Perret 1090 'ouvrage important sur cette region. Rare et recherché'. Very Good.

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Boeknummer: 001147

Catalogus: Mountaineering and Mountain Travel

CONWAY, SIR WILLIAM MARTIN.

The First Crossing of Spitsbergen.

1897, 1st Edition. Hardcover. Book, First edn, London, Dent, 1897. Large 8vo, xii, 371p. 8 colour plates, 2 folding col'd maps, plates & text illustrations. Nr fine copy in green half-morocco, marbled boards, spine gilt in compartments, binding by Mudie. Bookplate of Clinton E Geiser. Neate C105 'An account of an inland journey of exploration & survey, with descriptions of several mountain ascents'. Near Fine.

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Boeknummer: 002152

Catalogus: Mountaineering and Mountain Travel

COOK, THOS

Programme of Select Conducted Tours to Switzerland Season 1909

Thos Cook & Son 1909. 1909. Hardcover. Book, First edn thus, Thos Cook, 1909. 8vo, 56p. Illustrations and adverts. Slight wear to spine else VG in original printed card covers. Five Cook's Tours, including Rhine & Black Forest; Paris & Switzerland; Grand Alpine Tour and Valley of Aosta. Very Good.

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Boeknummer: 002027

Catalogus: Mountaineering and Mountain Travel

COOLIDGE, W A B (SIGNED BY ASHLEY ABRAHAM ).

Alpine Studies (Signed By Ashley Abraham ).

1912, 1st Edition. Hardcover. Book, First edn, Longmans, London, 1912. 8vo, xiv, 307p. Plates mainly by Vittorio Sella. Spine evenly faded, light foxing to edges & some pages, slight wear to head of spine else VG in original cloth. SIGNED by Keswick climber Ashley Abraham on the endpaper. Neate C126. A rare signature of one of the Keswick Brothers, noted for their photography, rock and Alpine climbing. Very Good. Signed by Author(s).

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Boeknummer: 001307

Catalogus: Mountaineering and Mountain Travel

COOLIDGE, W A B

Swiss Travel and Swiss Guide Books

1889, 1st Edition. Hardcover. Book, First edn, Longmans Green & Co, 1889. 8vo, xii, 336p, 16p cat. Minor light foxing else near fine copy in original cloth gilt. An important reference work, with a history of Zermatt. Neate C129, Perret 1098. Scarce. Very Good.

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Boeknummer: 001013

Catalogus: Mountaineering and Mountain Travel

COXE, WILLIAM.

Sketches of the Natural, Civil, and Political State of Swisserland in a Series of Letters to William Melmoth Esq.

1779, 1st Edition. Hardcover. Book, First edn, London, printed for J Dodsley, 1779. 8vo, viii, 532p, 1p postscript. Original wrappers bound in. Completely uncut copy, 16 x 25 cm. Attractively bound in 1/4 calf, marbled boards, gilt label, not recent. Minor dampstain to corner of early pages else VG clean copy. Pp 286-295 describe a visit to the 'glacier of Montenvers' and the use of 'a long pole spiked with iron' and crampons. Also an attempt on Mont Blanc by 'four inhabitants of Chamouny'. Perret 1159 'Un des ouvrages de voyages en Suisse les plus classiques de la fin du XVIII siecle'. The first edition of the book later issued (1789) as 'Travels in Switzerland' which ran to four editions. Very Good.

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Boeknummer: 001929

Catalogus: Mountaineering and Mountain Travel

CUMMING, CONSTANCE GORDON.

Granite Crags of California (Yosemite).

1886. Hardcover. Book, New edn, Blackwood, Edinburgh & London, 1886. x, 384p, 5 attractive autotype plates & fldg map. Unopened. New front endpaper at some time. Near fine copy in original pictorial cloth gilt. A nice copy of an important early account of Yosemite. Near Fine.

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Boeknummer: 000749

Catalogus: Mountaineering and Mountain Travel

CUNNINGHAM, C D & ABNEY, SIR W

The Pioneers of the Alps

1888. Hardcover. Book, Second edn, 4to, 1888. 180p. Complete with 23 plates & text illus. Inscr. Minor browning to edge of photo pages but not the engravings, else VG in orig pict cloth gilt. Clark 'only 200 copies printed'. A great classic with a history of Alpinism & biographical sketches of the great Alpine guides. Neate C156 'with Abney's superb portraits.'. Very Good.

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Boeknummer: 001609

Catalogus: Mountaineering and Mountain Travel

DENT, CLINTON

Above the Snow Line Mountaineering Sketches between 1870 and 1880

1885, 1st Edition. Hardcover. Book, First ed, Longmans Green, London, 1885. 8vo, xiv, 327p. 3 engraved plates (2 by Edward Whymper). Sl wear, 2 small booksellers labels, VG clean copy in original pictorial cloth. Neate D19 'includes the first ascent of the Aiguille du Dru'. Perret 1286 'ouvrage important et peu courant'. Classic ascents. Very Good.

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Boeknummer: 001993

Catalogus: Mountaineering and Mountain Travel

DESIO, PROF ARDITO

Ascent of K2 Second Highest Peak in the World

1955, 1st Edition. Hardcover. Book, First Eng edn, Elek, London, 1955. 8vo, 239p. Plates. Very minor wear to head and tail of dustwrapper spine, else nr fine copy in similar unclipped dustwrapper. Neate D21 'First ascent of K2'. Near Fine.

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Boeknummer: 001942

Catalogus: Mountaineering and Mountain Travel

DESMAISON, RENÉ;

Total Alpinism

1st Edition. (ISBN: 0246111127) Hardcover. Book, First Eng edn, Granada, 1982. Tall 8vo, 202p. Plates. Hardback. Nr fine in similar unclipped dustwrapper. Neate D22 'Autobiography of a leading and often controversial climber'. Near Fine.

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Boeknummer: 001216

Catalogus: Mountaineering and Mountain Travel

Trefwoorden: 0246111127 Mountaineering Alps

DIXON, WILLIAM HEPWORTH

The Switzers

1872, 1st Edition. Hardcover. Book, First edn, Hurst & Blackett, London, 1872. 8vo, x, 364p. Inscr. Endpapers slightly browned. VG in contemporary 1/4 calf gilt, marbled edges. Scarce account of Switzerland. Very Good.

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Boeknummer: 001038

Catalogus: Mountaineering and Mountain Travel