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Les Alpes Livres

Mountains and Mountaineering in Art and Literature

Tony Astill

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Ashley Perry Abraham ROCK-CLIMBING IN SKYE.   Longmans, Green & Co.  1908 1st.  pp330.  30 full page collotype illus. 9 route diagrams. fold. map in e.p. excellent. orig. blue cloth gilt. t.e.g. sl. bumped corners. owner insc. Rod Hewing with Molineux armorial bookplate.  Near Fine- £425

Edward Whymper SCRAMBLES AMONGST THE ALPS IN THE YEARS 1860-69.  (including the History of the First Ascent of the Matterhorn).  John Murray. 1900 5th.  pp468.  22 full page engravings. 107 text. 5 maps [fold.] orig. blue cloth gilt, a.e.g. gilt dec. spine.  Very Good £375

Frank Sidney Smythe CAMP SIX. An Account of the 1933 Mount Everest Expedition.  Hodder & Stoughton. 1937 1st.  pp307.  frontis. 35 illus. orig. blue cloth gilt. small white st. on sp., sl. edge rubbed. becoming rare. quality *giclee facs. dw Very Good- £125

Norgay Sherpa Tenzing First Day Cover of the 25th Anniversary of the First Ascent of Mount Everest and Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II 2nd. June 1978. with set of 4 postage paid to which a 2003 50th anniversary Everest 1st. class stamp is added. The Mount Everest Foundation. 1978   The illustration of 'Tenzing on summit' drawn by Ted Hatch. Signed by Tenzing and John Hunt. 2 x 3p and 2 x 1/2p postage  Near Fine £395

Eric Shipton THAT UNTRAVELLED WORLD.   Charles Scribner's Sons, New York. 1969 1st. U.S. pp286. 26 illus. e.p. maps. orig. cloth. silver sp. title sl. faded, rubbed, marked. pres. copy signed 'Roger - With thanks for three memorable visits to Fernandina. Eric Shipton.' unpc dw- Very Good- £595

Albert Barbey LA CHAINE DU MONT BLANC.   Carte Albert Barbey. au 1/50.000 e 1929 5th.  large chromolithograph fold. map. [57 x 103 cms.] 24 sections laid on linen. nomenclature par Louis Kurz. topographie par X. Imfeld. some stains at joints.   Very Good- £650

Frank Sidney Smythe EDWARD WHYMPER.   Hodder & Stoughton. 1940 1st.  pp330.  frontis. 23 plates. 3 text & 3 maps (2 fold.). orig. red cloth. quite bright but faded sp. top sp. nick. quality *giclee dw Very Good- £65

Don Whillans D. & Ormerod A. DON WHILLANS. Portrait of a Mountaineer.  Heinemann. 1971 1st.  pp266.  25 illus. orig. blue cloth sl. mottled as usual. SIGNED by Don Whillans in his hand - To.....recipient  (not in his hand) unpc dw Very Good- £265

Hilaire Belloc THE PYRENEES.   Methuen & Co. 1909 1st.  pp340.  46 sketches by the Author and 22 maps. orig cloth gilt. quite scarce.  Very Good £85

 PAYSAGE pres de ROSENLAUI. Albumen Photograph Print Edition Photoglob. 1910  26.5 x 21.5 cms.    Very Good £45

Hereford George THE ALPINE JOURNAL: The Journal of the Alpine Club. A Record of Mountain Adventure and Scientific Observation.  Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts, & Green.  1863-2020 Vol. I 1864 - Vol. 124 2016  profusely illustrated throughout with lithographs, wood engravings, diagrams, maps and photographs etc. Volumes 1 - 64 (1959) bound in original Alpine Club tan/gilt vignette block cloth. then 1960 - 2018 vol.122 in club green cloth with d/w's (except 1975-86) Together with A.C. Journal Indeces 5 vols.    Very Good- to Near Fine

Johann Jacob. Scheuchzer OURESIPHOITES HELVETICUS. Sive ITINERA PER HELVETIAE ALPINAS REGIONES. 1701-1711 per Alpes Helveticas & Rhaeticas  Pieter Vander Aa : Leiden 1723 2nd., enlgd.   pp167, 169-350, 353--520, 523-635, [53] 130 copper engraved plates inc. port. frontis. of Scheuchzer. fold. Maps, 24 city views inc. Zurich, Bern etc. topographical, geological, botanical and other subjects. also with folding plate of Lucern opp.p.359 4 tomes bound in 2 vols. 4to. [256 x 201mm] original cont. vellum  Very Good £3,450