MOUNTAINEERING BOOKS

April special six
old and new mountaineering books for sale

Hudson Rev. C.& Kennedy E.S. Where there's a Will there's a Way: AN ASCENT OF MONT BLANC. by a new route and without Guides. Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans. 1856 1st. pp95. engraved frontis. cold. fold. map. recased orig. blue cloth. gilt. some sl. rubbing. Very Rare.

Oxley T. Louis JACQUES BALMAT, or The First Ascent of Mont Blanc. A True Story. Privately Published and sold at Kerby & Endean, 190 Oxford Street. Oatlands Park: J. North and all Booksellers. 1881 1st. pp38. newly bound in tan half calf gilt, raised Bands. discreet blind stamp of Leeds Public Library on title page and following 4 pages. Very Rare.

Pye D. GEORGE LEIGH MALLORY. O.U.P. 1927 1st. pp183. 6 illus. orig. cloth worn. spare label. insc. 'W.R. Neate 7/7/77' from the library of Bill Neate. signed by Mike Westmacott, George Lowe, Charles Wylie and George Band.

Richardson M.K. AMONG THE ALPS. American Tract Society. 1871 1st. pp364. engraved frontis. and 4 plates. includes a fictional Ascent of Mont Blanc by the guide Frederique Leclair, with messrs. Phelps, Gray and Nelson. orig. tan gilt dec. cloth. rare - not in Meckly, Perret, AC catalogue.

Runge (Lange) H. LA SUISSE PITTORESQUE. Druck & Verlag von G.G. Lange in Darmstadt. c1869 67 steel engraved views [13 x 17.5 cms.] inc. Das Chamouni-Thal. Chamouny und der Mont Blanc. Das Matterhorn und Zermatt. Geneva, Lausanne, Vevey, Montreux, Martigny, Chamouny, Interlaken, Sion, Grindelwald, Thun etc. original french binding blind stamped cloth dec. Gilt.

Workman F.B. & W.H. ICE-BOUND HEIGHTS OF THE MUSTAGH. An Account of the two seasons of Pioneer Exploration and High Climbing in the Baltistan Himalaya. Constable and Co. Ltd. 1908 1st. pp444. 2 maps and 170 illus. recased on orig. cold. pict. cloth. t.e.g.