ORIGINAL RARE MOUNTAIN AND MOUNTAINEERING PHOTOGRAPHS FOR SALE

Mountain and Mountaineering Photography. Photography soon became the more common medium used to illustrate mountaineering books as the camera replaced the artist.

1869 Josiah Whitney The Yosemite Guidebook

Original and Rare Mountain and Mountaineering Photographs for sale. Vittorio Sella, Auguste Garcin,

Mountaineers became accomplished not only with their ice–axes but also with the camera as they took on intrepid routes in search of alternative ways to reach the top. Of the first mountaineering books were illustrated with real photographic prints pasted in by hand. as the DONKIN,

Photochrom 22 coloured photolithographs of the Alps (The First?) glass covered with gilt border and folding back.  Photochrom Co. Ltd. London (PZ Zurich) c1895   22 x 17 cms. some 6 or so are cracked - Zermatt, Chamonix, Mont Blanc, de Saussure etc. RARE with original 19th. century tabletop folding walnut veneer and ebonised photograph and stereo graphoscope viewer.

Original  photographs of Zermatt and the Matterhorn, Chamonix and Mont Blanc, Mount Everest with Hillary and Tenzing. The Alps, Snowdon, Grand Saint Bernard, albumen prints, lantern slides, stereo views.

Albert Smith Original Photograph carte-de-visite showing Smith standing by the chair. Adolphe Paul Auguste Beau for Silvi, Camille-Léon-Louis photographer, London c1860   albumen print made from glass negative. mounted on original card.

George Perry? Abraham LANTERN SLIDES of Alpine Climbing and the Dolomites.   G.P. Abraham.  c1900   Glass negative double image (stereoview) Lantern? Slides - individual views. 8 x 8 cms. individual slides for sale. by direct descent from the collection of Ashley Abraham.

Auguste Garcin SOUVENIR DE LA SUISSE.   A. Garcin. Photographie, Geneve.  c1880   24 orig. albumen photo. fold. views. (10 x 15 cms.) inc. Le Mont Cervin et L'Hotel du Riffel, Geneve et Le Mont Blanc, Interlaken et La Jungfrau, Grindelwald et Le Wetterhorn, Zurich, Le Mont Rose Vu du Gornergrat, Chamonix et Le Mont Blanc, Traversee de La Mer de Glace (Chamonix).. orig. blue cloth - very badly stained, but contents are good. oblong 8to.