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Attributed to JUAN DE ESPINAL (Seville, 1714 - 1783)."St. Michael the Archangel.Oil on canvas. Re-drawn.Size: 41 x 27 cm.Juan de Espinal was able to overcome the then predominant Murillo spirit prevailing in local painting, opening to other trends from Europe, among which the Rococo style predominated. He possessed an elegant sense of chromatism, a light brushstroke and an agile and vibrant drawing, as we see in this San Miguel Arcángel. Among the attributions, we can mention the Immaculate Conception preserved in the Lázaro Galdiano Museum in Madrid and the tempera decoration of the vault of the Church of San Francisco de Utrera, on the theme Apotheosis of the Jesuit Order. He has also been attributed a series of thirteen paintings of circular format, now conserved in the Santa Casa de Loyola in Guipúzcoa, possibly copies of the series of Jesuit stories that the Flemish Jesuit Ignacio Raeth painted for the Novitiate of Madrid.Son of the painter Gregorio Espinal, Juan de Espinal must have received his first artistic teachings from his father. He apprenticed in the workshop of Domingo Martínez, where he probably met his master's daughter, Juana Martínez, whom he would later marry. In 1749, after the death of his father-in-law and master, he inherited his father's workshop and presumably his clientele, enjoying a prestigious position. Proof of this are the various commissions he received, both from the city council and the ecclesiastical hierarchy. Another of his facets was teaching, being one of the main promoters of the art school known as Real Escuela de las Tres Nobles Artes de Sevilla and director of the painting section of this school since 1775. His first work of which we have evidence is the tempera decoration of the vault of the Church of El Salvador (Seville). It is a representation of the heavenly Glory presided over by the Holy Spirit in the form of a dove. In 1759 he was commissioned by the City Council of Seville to paint a picture of Saints Justa and Rufina, a theme already treated by Murillo. The result was a splendid work in which Espinal introduced iconographic novelties in the representation of these saints. Other of his most brilliant works are the Alegoría de la pintura Sevillana, currently on display at the Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando (Madrid), and San Carlos Borromeo dando la comunión a los apestados de Milán (Church of San Nicolás de Bari in Seville). His best set of works is undoubtedly the series of fifteen paintings on religious themes commissioned by the Archbishop of Seville Don Francisco Javier Delgado y Venegas and currently housed in the Archbishop's Palace of this city, among them are: The Archangel St. Michael, St. Gabriel, The Sacrifice of Isaac, Jacob's Dream and The Angel announcing the plague to David. It is known the existence of paintings on profane themes, such as Venus and Vulcan, but none of them has been preserved.
Spanish school, last third of the 16th century. "Adoration of the Shepherds. Oil on panel. Engatillada. Size: 33 x 35 cm; 60 x 62 cm (frame). In this canvas we see a very repeated theme throughout the History of Art, that of the adoration of the shepherds. The scene is approached from an idealised point of view, full of eloquent and stylised gestures, especially the gesture of the Virgin, who takes the cloth that cradles the Christ Child with her fine fingers and raises her gaze towards her. Surrounding the newborn are the humble figures of two shepherds and Joseph with Mary. The ox and the donkey also bring their noses close, touched by the scene. Behind them, a broad landscape opens up in blue tones in the distance, the perspective being marked in the Flemish manner. The intense white of the cloth bathes their surroundings in light, radiating with nuanced tones that shift from warm in the foreground to cool in the landscape. This reinforces the idea of family seclusion. The painting belongs to a school of transition between the Renaissance and the Baroque.
School of JOSÉ DE RIBERA (Xátiva, Valencia, 1591 - Naples, 1652). "Head of Saint John the Baptist". Oil on canvas. Relined. Measurements: 46 x 63,5 cm. In this canvas the author deals with a theme of great dramatism, very much in accordance with the popular sensibility of the Spain of the time, strongly influenced by the Counter-Reformation, which demanded from the art a realistic language so that the faithful could understand and identify with what was represented, and an expression endowed with an intense emotional content to increase the fervour and devotion of the people. Thus we see the decapitated head of the Baptist, placed on the silver tray on which it was given to Salome. However, there are no narrative elements to tell the story; it is a static, devotional composition in which we see only the severed head on the tray placed on a table dressed in a rich red cloth. The space is undefined and closed, with a dark background worked in neutral tones against which the saint's head stands out, strongly illuminated by a light of Tenebrist heritage, directed and contrasted, which leaves the secondary areas of the composition in semi-darkness, focusing the viewer's attention on the saint's dead face. From its subject matter and style we can situate this painting within the Neapolitan school of the 17th century around the figure of José de Ribera, a key painter belonging to the generation of the great masters of the Golden Age, trained in Italy as a self-taught artist. He first came into contact with naturalism when he arrived in Rome in 1615, where he came into contact with the Nordic Caravaggists, from whom he adopted the smooth, hurried technique, ugliness and rigorous drawing that shaped his style during his Roman period. However, in 1616 he moved to Naples and settled there permanently. In Naples Ribera became the leader of the group of Neapolitan naturalists and an important circle of painters grew up around him. Despite his stay in Italy, Ribera sent numerous works to Spain, and his language would play a key role in the development of the Baroque in our country. His work would bring tenebrism and, later, the full Baroque, long before it arrived directly in Spain, thus influencing the new generations of painters. On the other hand, once his Roman period was over, his painting was characterised by a very loose, Venetian-influenced brushstroke, which also influenced the work of his followers. Thus, Ribera's school developed a style of dramatic, contrasting, clearly tenebrist lighting, which is nevertheless tinged by a Venetian brushstroke that is impastoed and fluid. Thus, here we see an artificial, directed spotlight that penetrates the scene from the upper right corner and directly illuminates the saint's face and hands, leaving the rest in semi-darkness. And we also find that totally modern brushstroke that models the saint by means of the light, that touch of pasty, expressive brushstroke that the artist learned directly from Ribera's work.
Spanish school of the first half of the XVII century."Nativity.Oil on panel.Size: 27 x 27 cm; 48,5 x 48,5 cm.In this variegated panel, the artist shows the Child Jesus on the ground, completely naked and assisted by little angels. This iconography is based on the Revelations of Saint Bridget of Sweden, from the 14th century, who in one of her visions, includes the description of the moment of childbirth given to her by the Virgin herself. According to this vision, when Mary knelt down to pray, she felt the Child move inside her, whom she immediately gave birth to. Without changing her position, the Virgin began to adore the Child with the utmost decorum and reverence, and was joined shortly afterwards by angels. Meanwhile, St. Joseph had gone out to look for something to light the place and did not attend the birth. Also participating in the scene are the ox and the mule, omnipresent in our traditional Nativity scenes, which, however, are not mentioned in the accounts of the Birth of Christ given in the canonical Gospels.The Gospel of St. Luke tells that St. Joseph and the Virgin Mary went to Bethlehem to register following a census ordered by Rome and adds: "And it came to pass, while they were there, that the days of childbirth were fulfilled, and she gave birth to her firstborn son, wrapped him in swaddling clothes and laid him in a manger, because they had no room in the inn. Some apocryphal gospels, such as the Protoevangelium of James or the Pseudo-Matthew, refer to the place of birth as a grotto or cave, plunged in darkness, a motif that will appear frequently in Byzantine art and is also maintained in traditional nativity scenes. In Western art, on the other hand, the motif of the grotto is rare. Based on accounts such as that of The Golden Legend of Jacobus of Voragine, from the 13th century, the scene is usually located in a stable or shed, as in the present panel, generally in ruins and semi-abandoned, which was used as a shelter or resting place by both people and animals.
Dutch school; first half of the seventeenth century."Portrait of a gentleman".Oil on panel.Presents restorations, repainting and slight damage.Size: 71 x 58 cm; 92 x 77 cm (frame).We see in this work a male portrait that presents us a gentleman of mature age, with a thick beard, soberly dressed in a suit of armor, on which is superimposed a large white ruff. The luminosity of the face stands out in this work, contributed by the flesh tones and a spotlight, directed towards the face. The author has wanted to emphasize especially the look, which the protagonist fixes directly on the spectator, a feature that tells us about the psychology of the character, breaking in part the protocol distance typical of the baroque portrait. The composition is sober, typical of the Dutch portrait painting of the time: the character appears with a long bust, turned three-quarters with his head slightly turned to the front, in the foreground, against a neutral, dark background, although somewhat more illuminated around the head of the character. His face is modeled through a contrasting light of tenebrist heritage.The portrait, both individual and group, and even the character portrait, embodies the relationship of the individual with society and, therefore, with the State. This genre covers a third of the total production of the Dutch Baroque, and its main renovator in Holland is Frans Hals who, thanks to the power with which he marked the character of his models, penetrating their personality to the point of giving them vitality and spontaneous truth, was able to free himself from the prevailing late mannerism, giving rise to a new conception of the portrait. Faced with the exuberant and elegant Mannerist portrait, of virtuous and elaborate execution, at the beginning of the 17th century a general reaction was unleashed, based on compositional austerity and operational sobriety. Thus, against the desire for virtuosity of the previous century, the portraitists of the Dutch Baroque recovered the previous models in a more sober and solid way, focusing on the characterization of the characters, the elegance of the poses and the delicate capture of the qualities of the different objects.Italian school; 17th century.
Spanish or Italian school; ca. 1700"The Arrival of the Virgin and St. Joseph in Bethlehem".Oil on canvas. Relined.Presents repainting and restorations.Size: 119 x 165 cm.In a dramatic illuminated scene, some characters lean out of the window, to listen to the supplications of Joseph and Mary, who are outside. Joseph with his back to the viewer and looking directly at the characters in the window, seems to adopt an imploring attitude, pointing to Mary, who stands out for her tired gesture, with a distressed face and her hand resting on her belly. This development of the scene invites us to think that it is the moment in which St. Joseph and Mary travel to Bethlehem, because by decree of King David, all children must be registered in that city. The moment that the work captures shows how they were denied accommodation, so that they had to resort to a manger. It is a previous moment, where the author does not try to show the joy of the birth of Christ, which takes place moments later. Therefore, it is a moralizing scene that invites the viewer to reflect on the human condition, on humility and charity, values proper to Christianity.Baroque painting, both Italian and Spanish, is one of the most authentic and personal examples of art, because its conception and form of expression arose from the people and the deepest feelings that nestled in it. With the economy of the State broken, the nobility in decline and the high clergy burdened with heavy taxes, it was the monasteries, parishes and confraternities of clerics and laymen who promoted its development, the works sometimes being financed by popular subscription. Sculpture was thus compelled to embody the prevailing ideals in these environments, which were none other than religious ones, at a time when the counter-reformist doctrine demanded from art a realistic language so that the faithful would understand and identify with what was represented, and an expression endowed with an intense emotional content to increase the fervor and devotion of the people. The religious subject is, therefore, the preferred theme of Spanish painting of this period, which in the first decades of the century starts from a priority interest in capturing the natural, to progressively intensify throughout the century the expression of expressive values, which is achieved through the movement and variety of gestures, the use of light resources and the representation of moods and feelings.
Spanish school; XVII century."Crucifixion".Oil on canvas. Relined.Presents repainting, restorations and missing in the frame.Size: 126 x 86 cm; 136 x 98 cm (frame).In this work the author captures a work full of great drama that shows the moment in which Christ is already dead on the cross, being accompanied by the Virgin Mary and St. John. It is an Iconographic evolved from the original Byzantine Déesis, which represented Christ in Majesty accompanied by Mary and St. John the Baptist. In Western art, the representation of Christ on the cross will be preferred, as a narrative scene, and the figure of St. John the Baptist will be replaced by that of John the Evangelist. However, as in the Byzantine Déesis, in the western model both the Virgin and St. John have their faces raised or oriented towards Christ, with their hands in a position of supplication on behalf of humanity. In this composition we also see, at the foot of the cross, the skull and Adam's tibia, a symbol that alludes to the figure of Christ as the new Adam, as redeemer of man's sin. The three figures are placed in the foreground, in front of a low stone wall behind which the landscape develops in depth, with the city of Jerusalem in the background, under a turbulent and ominous sky. In order to emphasize the drama of the composition, the author has played with the lighting and creates a much darker atmosphere in the foreground, while the background appears more illuminated, worked in tones of the same range, mainly earthy and reddish, tinged with bluish and green touches, but much lighter than those of the foreground. This marked effect in the illumination is a typical plastic resource of mannerism, which breaks with classical norms in its search for a more conceptual, symbolic and above all expressive art. Another clearly mannerist resource, which can be appreciated here at first sight, is the marked spatial tension derived from the large size of the figures of the Virgin and St. John, which occupy a large part of the pictorial surface. Their monumentality, enhanced by their ample vestments, contrasts with the thinness of Christ, in a way that emphasizes his defenselessness and physical suffering. Next to his mother and his disciple, Jesus appears small, his almost lifeless body broken and pale, which greatly accentuates the drama of the representation. Nevertheless, apart from these clearly mannerist elements we see features that remain faithful to classicism, especially in the chromatic aspect of the foreground. Further out, in the background landscape, we do see anti-classical colors, undefined and strangely bleached by the artificial light, but in the foreground the carmine and green of the cloaks of St. John and the Virgin dominate, large planes of color that are echoed in the space around them, and which appear magnificently toned and balanced. Nevertheless, we see a somewhat more dramatic work of light than was usual in the previous century, with lighter colors and more complex shades. Another feature that remains faithful to classicism is the composition, orderly and clearly pyramidal, determined by the heads of the three characters. It is a rational scheme, balanced and centered not only by its form, but also by the looks of the lateral characters, which converge in the face of Christ.
Circle of BLAS DE PRADO (Camarena, Toledo, around 1545- Madrid, 1599)."St. Jerome.Oil on canvas.Relined.Frame of the XVIII century.Size: 130 x 108 cm; 140 x 120 cm (frame).In this canvas the theme of St. Jerome penitent in the desert is approached through a scenographic and open composition, with a silver illumination that succeeds in the way of enhancing the pathos of the scene. The painting is attributed to Blas de Prado, whose work was characterized by his monumental figures, skillfully modeled with a contrasting light, as is the case here. The saint appears full-length, chiseled by the chiaroscuro, his torso being naked and the muscles of his legs partially covered by the draped mantle, of intense crimson tone. The saint appears in a rocky environment, open to a nocturnal landscape with a waterfall. Next to him we see the lion, lying at his feet, the skull and a crucifix, all enveloped in a nuanced penumbra.Blas de Prado was a painter of whom we have, so far, little biographical information. He worked mainly in Toledo, where there are some contracts located in the surroundings of the city and where contemporary sources mention him. It is also known that he worked at the court, earning the appreciation of Philip II.It is known that he painted portraits, Francisco Pacheco considers him as the introducer of the still life in Spain (he was Juan Sánchez Cotán's teacher) and, besides knowing the Italian production by his works in El Escorial, there are those who defend the possibility of a trip to Italy that would allow him to know the works first hand, influenced, above all, by Michelangelo in several conserved works.At present, it is possible to appreciate his painting only in outstanding private collections and institutions such as the Prado Museum in Madrid, the Museum of Santa Cruz in Toledo, the Cathedral of Valencia, the Collegiate Church of Santa Maria la Mayor in Talavera de la Reina (Toledo), in the Palace of Liria (Madrid), drawings in the Uffizzi Gallery in Florence, the Louvre Museum in Paris, etc..
Workshop of JOSÉ DE RIBERA (Xátiva, Valencia, 1591 - Naples, 1652)."St. Francis of Paula" ca.1630.Oil on canvas.Size: 120 x 103 cm; 128 x 112 cm (frame).In this canvas is represented San Francisco de Paula of half body, in pensive position, with the glance directed upwards, in the direction of a halo of light that emanates from the top right part of the composition and in which the word "Caritas" can be read. He appears dressed in dark sackcloth, typical of his hermit character, accompanied by the staff, his main iconographic attribute, and with the Holy Scriptures in front of him, also illuminated by a spotlight that falls directly on them. It is a work perfectly framed within the naturalistic baroque, heir of José de Ribera, starring a totally earthly man, with a face far from any idealization. San Francisco de Paula is presented as a real person, with personalized features typical of the individualized study, furrowed by deep wrinkles. As usual within the naturalistic baroque, the composition is simple and clear, with the character in the foreground against a neutral and dark background that enhances his physical presence. Apart from the human model and this composition, the lighting is also clearly naturalistic, a tenebrism derived directly from Ribera that is based on an artificial, directed spotlight that penetrates the painting through the lower left corner and falls on the face and hands of the saint, also illuminating the writings and the table in the foreground, leaving the rest in a nuanced penumbra, very worked, as we can see in the perfectly achieved mantle, characterized by its realism, despite being enveloped in shadows. The chromatism is also typical of this school, very limited around the ochers, earthy, reflecting the warm and naturalistic atmosphere.Regarding the subject, it represents Saint Francis of Paola (Calabria, Italy, 1416-Tours, France, 1507), hermit founder of the Order of the Minims and saint of the Catholic Church in the Italian region of Calabria. Legend has it that St. Francis became seriously ill of the eyes, reason for which his parents entrusted themselves to St. Francis, curing their son's eyes. To be grateful for the miracle, at the age of fourteen he went on pilgrimage to Assisi, thus becoming a hermit. For five years he withdrew to the mountain, feeding only on water and wild herbs, sleeping on the hard ground, with a stone as a pillow. He was canonized in 1519, only twelve years after his death, during the pontificate of Pope Leo X. In the early years of the 16th century, the Order of the Minims entered Spain, acquiring great diffusion due to the values of Franciscan preaching that they spread, which, linked to the recent canonization of the saint and his way of life and poverty, strongly influenced the Spanish Christian population.Due to the aforementioned formal characteristics, this painting can be related to the circle of José de Ribera, a key painter for the development of the naturalistic baroque not only in Spain, but also in Italy and in other national schools, given the great diffusion of his work. Called the Españoleto, he was a key master of the Spanish Baroque, and in general of the history of art at the European level. Although no documentary sources or evidence of his youth are preserved, it is believed that he trained with Francisco Ribalta in Valencia, after which he went to Italy, first to the north and later to Rome, where he learned first-hand about the classicists and the Caravaggesque tenebrism of the Dutch who settled there. Finally he settled in Naples, where he arrived in 1616. Then began his period of maturity and splendor; Ribera enjoyed fame and a large workshop, and his works spread throughout Europe through engravings.
Castilian school; first quarter of the sixteenth century."Virgin imposing the chasuble to San Ildefonso".Oil on panel. Cradled.Brushed board, has restoration.Size: 149 x 101 cm; 169.5 x 121 cm (frame).Devotional scene, in which the author presents the Virgin, accompanied by a saint, kneeling before her, and three angels arranged in the upper part of the composition, carrying the crosier, the chasuble and the mitre. This symbolism indicates that it is the representation of a passage from the life of Saint Ildefonso, specifically the one that refers to the night of December 18, 665. When Saint Ildefonso went to the church to sing hymns in honor of Mary, accompanied by his clerics and some other people. However, when they entered, they found the chapel shining with such a dazzling light that they were afraid. All fled except Ildefonso and his two deacons, who entered and approached the altar. Before them stood the Virgin Mary, seated on the bishop's chair, surrounded by a company of virgins singing heavenly songs. Mary beckoned the saint to approach and, having obeyed, she fixed her eyes upon him and said, "You are my chaplain and faithful notary. Receive this chasuble which my Son sends you from his treasury." Having said this, Our Lady herself invested him, instructing him to wear the chasuble only on feast days designated in her honor. St. Ildefonso of Toledo (Toledo, 607-667), son of Visigoth parents and nephew of St. Eugene III, was archbishop of Toledo between 657 and 667, and is one of the Fathers of the Church. He studied in Seville under the tutelage of St. Isidore, and entered the order of St. Benedict fleeing from his parents, nobles who were opposed to his priestly life. He would later be elected abbot of Agalia, near Toledo, and finally archbishop. St. Ildefonso unified the liturgy in Spain, and wrote numerous works of liturgical and dogmatic character, particularly on the Virgin Mary.Spain is, at the beginning of the 16th century, the European nation best prepared to receive the new humanist concepts of life and art due to its spiritual, political and economic conditions, although from the point of view of the plastic forms, its adaptation of those implanted by Italy was slower due to the need to learn the new techniques and to change the taste of the clientele. Soon the anatomy, the movement of the figures, the compositions with a sense of perspective and balance, the naturalistic play of the folds, the classical attitudes of the figures began to be valued; but the strong Gothic tradition maintains the expressiveness as a vehicle of the deep spiritualist sense. This strong and healthy tradition favors the continuity of religious painting by adding a sense of balance that avoids its predominance over the immaterial content that animates the forms. In the first years of the century, Italian works arrived in our lands and some of our artists went to Italy, where they learned first hand the new norms in the most progressive centers of Italian art, such as Florence or Rome, and even in Naples.
Flemish school; XVI century."Saint Jerome".Oil on panel.Requires cleaning and has restoration band on the back.Measures: 64 x 48 cm.In this work the artist reveals an exceptional sense of drawing through which he has described the anatomy of the saint, showing great precision. Especially achieved in the anatomical capture that is revealed through thin but defined muscles, which give a glimpse of the saint's life as a hermit. His anatomy presents a certain elongation of the forms, which makes the hands stand out in particular, rotund, but at the same time defined and refined. The face also reveals this technical care, which is determined by the treatment of the wrinkles and bags that can be seen under the saint's expressive eyes. The detail with which the hair has been painted stands out, and each hair that forms part of the beard can be seen. This shows the artist's interest in capturing an almost microscopic reality. This prominence of details and qualities is a characteristic feature of the Flemish school. This statement added to the hieratism and rotundity of the figure, invite us to think of aesthetic compositions close to the painter Ambrosius Benson (Region of Lombardy?, ca. 1490-1500 - Bruges, January 1550), whose Saint Jerome in the collection of the Mayer van den Bergh Museum in Antwerp, has great similarities with this work. In both pieces the saint is immersed in a rocky interior, which opens slightly to the landscape in the upper left area. Located in the center of the composition, St. Jerome, dressed in a grayish tunic that reveals his torso, holds a cross with the body of Christ in his hands. It is at this point where the two works differ since, in the painting of the museum, the saint only holds the cross. Finally, the work is completed with the iconographic attributes typical of St. Jerome, such as the lion and the skull. Ambrosius Benson was one of the so-called masters of the tradition, successor of Van der Goes, and showed the influence of Van Eyck, Van der Weyden and the Flemish primitives in general. However, in his work we can appreciate features already typical of the 16th century, coming from Italy, such as the triangular composition that we see in this work. Originally from Lombardy, more Italian features can be appreciated in his painting. As we can see in this workshop work, especially important was his personal use of color, with a predominance of maroon tones in contrast to the whites and light tones of the flesh tones, which are thus very highlighted in the composition. Also typical of his work is the velvety quality of the cloaks. Benson was a painter of religious subjects and portraits, and trained with Gerard David in Bruges from 1518, the year he became a citizen there.The representation of St. Jerome has been one of the most represented subjects in the art world. Whether as a penitent or as a sage, the saint's biography has served to connect with the faithful and transmit the values of the Church. Saint Jerome was born near Aquileia (Italy) in 347. Trained in Rome, he was an accomplished rhetorician, as well as a polyglot. Baptized at the age of nineteen, between 375 and 378 he retired to the Syrian desert to lead an anchorite's life. He returned to Rome in 382 and became a collaborator of Pope Damasus. The accumulation of books and parchments next to the saint alludes to the saint's translation of the Bible into Latin, which was considered the only official translation since the Council of Trent. The theme of St. Jerome hearing the trumpet of the Last Judgment would become fashionable in Counter-Reformation Europe, and would gradually impose itself, displacing the previous interpretations of the saint as a sage or as a penitent.
Two boxes of folk, pop and rock vinyl LP records with Traffic, Magna Carter, The Sweet, Jerry Lee Lewis, Buddy Holly, Roy Orbison, Caravan, Fleetwood Mac, Billy Connolly and Humblebums Complete, Duane Eddy, Simon and Garfunkel, Roxy Music, The Shadows, Electric Light Orchestra, Pet Shop Boys etc Condition Report: Available upon request
A Wedgwood Strawberry Hill pattern dinner service comprising two oval platters, sauce boat and two stands, eleven soup coupes, twelve saucers, side plates, bowls, medium plates and dinner plates Condition Report: One dinner plate cracked. . Other items have light to medium surface scratches.
A Royal Albert Old Country Roses teaset comprising six cups, saucers, plates, cake plate, milk jug and sugar bowl, six Roslyn China Wheatcroft Roses trios, four Salisbury Dijon trios, milk jug, sugar bowl and a cake plate, Duchess September Morn teaset and two other part sets Condition Report: OCR - all ok. Light surface scratches. Roslyn - one cup handle broken. Salisbury and Duchess ok.
Ɵ NOYCE, Wifrid. (1917 - 1962). Six Works: first editions, four SIGNED by the author, includes two presentation copies, 1947-1962. comprises: Mountains and Men. Presentation copy. London: Geoffrey Bles, 1947. first edition, 8vo., (230 x 160mm), publisher's blue cloth, silver lettering to spine, dustwrapper clipped, INSCRIBED by the author to Geoffrey L. Bartman on front free e/p., frontispiece, 14 b/w. photographic plates, 4 maps, 160pp: The Gods are Angry. SIGNED. Heinemann, 1957. first edition, 8vo., (200 x 140mm), publisher's navy blue cloth, silver lettering to spine, dustwrapper unclipped, design Richard Taylor, previous ownership name to map illustrated e/ps., SIGNED by the author to title page, 198pp: Poems. Presentation copy. Heinemann. 1960. first edition, 8vo., (220 x 150mm), publisher's pale green cloth, silver lettering to spine, dustwrapper clipped, INSCRIBED by the author to front free e/p., 'To Alf Bridge / great mountaineer and / great friend / that courage of mine / bring to friends courage to, as they brought it to me', further SIGNED to the half-title by fellow mountaineer Alf Bridge, 98pp: To the Unknown Mountain. Ascent of an Unexplored Twenty-Five Thousander in the Karakoram. SIGNED. Heinemann, 1962. first edition, 8vo., (220 x 150mm), publisher's blue cloth, silver lettering to spine, dustwrapper unclipped, design Graham Bishop, SIGNED by the author to front free e/p., half-title, 20 b/w. photographic plates, 3 maps, 183pp: an account of the Anglo-American 1960 Expedition led by the author, containing D. Whillan's Solo by Motor-Bicycle from Rawlpindi to Lancashire as Appendix A: The Alps: With Descriptive Essays by Karl Lukan. London: Thames and Hudson, 1961. first edition, large 4to. (290 x 240mm), publisher's grey gilt decorated cloth, gilt lettering to spine, dustwrapper unclipped, peach e/ps., 230 b/w. photo. illustrations, 6 maps, 312pp: They Survived: A Study of the Will to Live. Heinemann. 1962. first edition, 8vo., publisher's blue cloth, silver lettering to spine, dustwrapper unclipped, design Sheila Perry, 18 b/w. photo. illustrations, 5 maps and plans, 202pp. each volume within removeable clear wrapper. Wifrid Noyce was an English mountaineer and author. He was a member of the 1953 British Everest expedition that made the first ascent of Mount Everest. Noyce and Sherpa Annullu (the younger brother of Da Tensing) were the first members of the expedition to reach Everest's South Col on 21 May, 1953. Wilfrid Noyce climbed up to the South Col a second time on 29 May, (the day of the successful first ascent) when he, Sherpa Pasang Phutar, and George Lowe met the successful summit team of Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay at the Col, giving the tired climbers drinks and congratulations. (6) Condition Report: 1. Mountains and Men - light marks to boards and faded to lower edges, spine faded and bumped head/tail, dustwrapper with edge chips and small tears (with loss) to top edge, and top and lower spine, e/ps. stained and toned, toning to leaf edges, o/w. clean text, plates and maps. 2. The Gods are Angry - clean boards, dustwrapper with some toning to inside edges of dustwrapper flaps, lower wrapper marked, and with edge nicks to corners and spine, toning internally. 3. Poems - boards with light marks and faded at edges, corners scuffed, spine faded and bumped head/tail, some foxing to dustwrapper, further heavier foxing to e/ps. and through to page six, some light marks affecting pages.20 - 21. 4. To the Unknown Mountain - light marks to boards, spine marked and bumped head/tail, dustwrapper worn at edges and corners with small tears (with loss) top and lower spine, e/ps. creased, some toning internally o/w. clean plates and maps. 5.The Alps: With Descriptive Essays . . . - unsigned, , clean boards, dustwrapper with some edge chips to corners, a clean copy. 6. They Survived - unsigned, bright clean boards, dustwrapper slightly toned, some creasing to edges. a clean copy. Condition Report Disclaimer
Ɵ SMYTHE, F.S. (1900 - 1949). Fourteen Works: one volume SIGNED by the author, and two related volumes, 1929 - 2013. comprises: The Valley of Flowers, SIGNED. Hodder & Stoughton, 1938. Limited edition of 250 copies, this copy numbered 241, 8vo., (206 x 107mm), publisher's white buckram, gilt lettering to front and spine, top edge gilt, others untrimmed, half-title, SIGNED by the author to the limitation page, 16 tipped-in colour photographs, including frontispiece, with captioned tissue guards, 2 maps, (including 1 folding sketch map at end after Lieut. R.A. Gardiner), contained in a grey cloth clamshell box, gilt lettered to front and spine: British Mountaineers. William Collins, 1942. first edition, 8vo., teal blue illustrated boards lettered in white, dustwrapper unclipped, 18 b/w. photo. illustrations, 8 colour plates, 48pp: Climbs and Ski Runs. Mountaineering and Ski-ing in the Alps, Great Britain and Corsica. William Blackwood & Sons, 1929. first edition, 8vo., publisher's blue gilt lettered cloth, b/w. illustrations from photographs, folding panorama of Mont Blanc, 307pp: An Alpine Journey, London: Victor Gollanz, 1934. first edition, 8vo.,publisher's black cloth, dustwrapper unclipped, photo. illustrated, folding map at end, 351pp: Secret Mission, London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1942. first edition, 12mo., publisher's blue cloth, black lettering to spine, d/wrapper unclipped, sketch map illustrated front e/ps. by Bip Pares, 256pp: The Mountain Top. An Anthology from the Prose and Pictures of Frank S. Smythe, The St. Hugh's Press Limited, London: 1947. first edition, square format, paper boards, dustwrapper clipped, photo. illustrated: Together with Adam & Charles Black: The Mountain Scene, 1937: Peaks and Valleys, 1938: A Camera in the Hills, 1939: Over Welsh Hills, 1941: Alpine Ways, 1942: Rocky Mountains, 1948: Swiss Winter, 1948: Mountains In Colour, London: Max Parish & Co. Ltd (1949) 4to., publisher's cloth, within illustrated dustwrappers: Together with The Geographical Journal. The Royal Geographical Society, 1932. vol. LXXIX, No. 1, January, 1932, Explorations in Garhwal Around Kamet: A paper read at the Evening Meeting of the Society on 2 November 1931, by F.S. Smythe, 16pp. pamphlet, black paper wrappers, printed title on white label to front, 6 b/w. photo. illustrations, 2 maps, and a sketch map after Captain E. St. J. Birnie: each volume within removeable clear wrapper: and SMYTHE, Tony (b. 1934 -). My Father Frank. Unresting Spirit of Everest. SIGNED, Baton Wicks, 2013. first edition, blue cloth, dustwrapper unclipped, foreward by Doug Scott, SIGNED by Tony Smythe and Doug Scott to title page, 324pp: FRANK SMYTHE was an English mountaineer, author, photographer and botanist. Smythe climbed extensively in the Alps and Himalayas, where he identified a region that he named the 'Valley of Flowers', now a protected park. In 1930 he joined an international expedition to Kangchenjunga, led by Gunther Dyhrenfurth. Smythe led his own Himalayan expedition in 1931 to the Garhwal region of India north of Delhi. His team, which included Eric Shipton, made the first ascent of 7756m Kamet. Frank Smythe was a member of three expeditions to Everest in 1933, 1936 and 1938. During the first of these he reached a record altitude of 8565m while climbing alone after his partner Shipton was forced to turn back. (16) Condition Report: 1. The Valley of Flowers - a clean copy, some toning to leaf edges, clamshell box clean, (208 x 200 x 60mm) 2. British Mountaineers - dustwrapper unclipped, foxing to e/ps. 3. Climbs and Ski Runs - foxing to edges. 4.An Alpine Journey - dustwrapper unclipped, folded map at end. 5. Secret Mission - publisher's blue cloth, dustwrapper unclipped, 6. The Mountain Top. An Anthology from the Prose and Pictures - dustwrapper clipped and marked. 7. The Mountain Scene - dustwrapper unclipped, 8. Peaks and Valleys - dustwrapper clipped, 9. A Camera in the Hills - dustwrapper unclipped, 10. Over Welsh Hills - dustwrapper clipped, 11. Alpine Ways - light marks to boards, spine bumped head/tail, dustwrapper unclipped, some tears (with loss) e/ps. stained and marked, some foxing to edges, and toning internally. 12. Rocky Mountains - dustwrapper unclipped, 13. Swiss Winter - dustwrapper clipped. 14. Mountains in Colour - dustwrapper unclipped 15. The Geographical Journal - a clean copy 16. My Father Frank Unresting Spirit of Everest - publisher's blue cloth, silver lettering to spine, dustwrapper unclipped. Condition Report Disclaimer
Ɵ ADAMS, Ansel. (1902 - 1984). Ansel Adams Presentation copies, two first editions, 1950 - 1977. comprises: AUSTIN, Mary Hunter. (1868 - 1934). The Land of Little Rain. Presentation copy. Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston. The Riverside Press, Cambridge, 1950. first edition, 4to., (260 x 210mm), publisher's yellow cloth, orange lettering to front and spine, dustwrapper unclipped, map illustrated e/ps., INSCRIBED and dated by Ansel Adams to half-title, 'for / Bardura Beach Thompson / Ansel Adams / Nov. 1950', introduction by Carl Van Doren, text by Mary Austin, 48 photographic illustrations after Ansel Adams, 133pp: ADAMS, Ansel. (1902 - 1974). and SZARKOWSKI, John. (1925 - 2007). The Portfolios of Ansel Adams. Seven Portfolios from 1948. Ansel Adams Presentation copy. New York Graphic Society, Boston, (1977). first edition, 4to., (290 x 240mm), first printing as stated, publisher's light grey cloth, black lettering to front and spine, dustwrapper unclipped, black e/ps., INSCRIBED and dated by Ansel Adams to half title, 'Inscribed For / Del Zogg / Greetings! / Ansel Adams / Carmel / 11-10-77.', introduction by John Szarkowski, 12 full-page b/w. photographic illustrations, each a limited edition of ten-sixteen prints, text from the original portfolios, including a memorable essay by Beaumont and Nancy Newhall in Portfolio VI., 124pp: both volumes within removeable clear wrapper. (2) Condition Report: 1. The Land of Little Rain - minor marks to boards, corners scuffed, spine bumped head/tail, dustwrapper with wear (mostly to corners) o/w. a clean copy. 2. The Portfolios of Ansel Adams. Seven Portfolios from 1948 - some light marks to board edges, foxing to edges, toning to cream dustwrapper, o/w. a clean copy. Condition Report Disclaimer
Ɵ CONWAY, William Martin. (1856 - 1937). Climbing and Exploration in the Karakoram-Himalayas. [Including Scientific Reports and portfolio of Maps]. London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1894. four volumes, first edition, Limited Deluxe SIGNED edition, number 52 of 150 copies, 8vo., (260mm x 190mm), original buckram, gilt-lettered burgundy morocco labels to spine, gilt tops, others untrimmed, marbled e/ps., half-titles, three hundred illustrations after A.D. McCormick, plus duplicates and proofs on Japon with gilt captioned tissue guards, volume one SIGNED by the author to limitation page, photogravure portrait frontispiece, 360pp., volume two single advertisement leaf at end, 361-709pp., with the two supplementary volumes of Scientific Reports and Maps, comprising 3 folding maps (2 colour-printed and one route map) on linen, loose in case as issued, each volume within removeable clear wrapper: An account of the first major climbing expedition to the Himalayas led by Conway in 1892, sponsored by the Royal Geographical Society and Royal Society. The first climb and exploration of the Hispar, Biafro and Baltoro Glaciers. (4) Condition Report: marks to buckram boards, foxing to untrimmed edges and e/ps. of volumes 1, 2, and Scientific Reports, o/w. clean text and illustrations; the maps with light marks and creasing, some foxing to back of linen. Condition Report Disclaimer
Ɵ MOUNTAINEERING: America and Canada. Five Works: four first editions, 1903-1948. comprises: STUTFIELD, Hugh. (1858 - 1929). and COLLIE, J. Norman. (1859 - 1942). Climbs & Explorations in the Canadian Rockies. Longmans, Green and Co., 1903. first edition, 8vo., (230 x 150mm), publisher's grey cloth, gilt lettering to front and spine, foredge and lower edge untrimmed, half-title, 52 plates, 2 sketch maps, (including folding coloured map at end), 343pp. 'One of the classics of the Canadian Rockies.' Neate S177: LANGFORD, Nathaniel Pitt. (1832 - 1911). Diary of the Washburn Expedition to the Yellowstone and Firehole Rivers in the year 1870. (St. Paul, Minnesota: J. E. Haynes, 1905). first edition, 8vo., (210 x 150mm), publisher's blue pictorial cloth, gilt lettering to front and spine, bevelled edges, gilt top, lacks publisher's credit page, frontispiece portrait, illustrations throughout text, 122pp. with three leaves of original sketch reproductions at end, a small coloured map of Niagara Falls loosely inserted. Nathaniel Pitt Langford was an American explorer, businessman, bureaucrat, vigilante and historian who played an important role in the early years of the Montana gold fields and the creation of Yellowstone National Park. Langford was a member of the 1870 Washburn, Langford, Doane Expedition which explored the region soon to became the Yellowstone National Park. Mount Langford, in the Absaroka Range, 7.5 miles east of Yellowstone Lake was scaled by Langford and Doane during the expedition and named after him: ADAMS, Ansel. (1902 - 1984). and ADAMS, Virginia. (1904 - 2000). Illustrated Guide to Yosemite Valley. H.S. Croker Co., Inc., San Francisco, California, 1940. first edition as stated, 8vo., (210 x 160mm), spiral-bound, soft blue illustrated wrappers,b/w. photo. illustrations, 2 colour maps, 128pp: ADAMS, Ansel. (1902 - 1984). and MUIR, John. (1838 - 1914). Yosemite and the Sierra Nevada. edited by Charlotte E. Mauk. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, The Riverside Press, Cambridge, 1948. first edition, 8vo., (270 x 210mm), publisher's brown cloth, brown lettering to front and spine, dustwrapper unclipped, half title, 64 photo. illustrations after selections from the works of John Muir, 132pp: with a reprint of The Geographical Journal, vol. CXI. nos. 4-6, April - June, 1948. Frank Smythe, An Expedition to the Lloyd George Mountains, North East British Columbia, Evening Meeting of the Society, 15 December, 1947. 8vo., (240 x 160mm), blue paper wrappers lettered in black, b/w. photo. illustrated, 2 full-page maps, pp. 160-171, within a patterned cloth, paper boards folder, a previous ownership name to inside flap. each volume within removeable clear wrappers. (5) Condition Report: 1. Climbs & Explorations in the Canadian Rockies - clean boards, corners scuffed, spine bumped head/tail, foxing to e/ps., previous ink ownership to front pastedown, some toning to leaf edges and a few pages. 2. Diary of the Washburn Expedition to the Yellowstone and Firehole Rivers in the year 1870 - lacks publisher's credit page, and thus without publisher's imprint of J.E. Haynes noting first issue, a few marks to the clean, bright boards, minor scuffing to corners and spine, some minor foxing to edges and toning mostly to leaf edges. 3. Illustrated Guide to Yosemite Valley - light wear and minor marks to covers, some minor foxing to title page, a few marks and stains internally. 4. Yosemite and the Sierra Nevada - clean boards, spine bumped head/tail, wear to dustwrapper and some tears (with loss) to top r.h. front corner and head/tail of spine, toning to leaf edges, o/w. a clean copy. 5. The Geographical Journal, vol. CXI. nos. 4-6, April - June, 1948. minor marks to blue paper wrappers, leaf edges a little marked and toned, o/w. a clean copy. Condition Report Disclaimer
Ɵ HIMALAYAS: Annapurna and K2: Four Works: SIGNED. [French text]. 1951-1954. comprises: HERZOG, Maurice. (1919 - 2012). Annapurna Premier 8.000. SIGNED. B. Athaud, Paris and Grenoble, (1951). Collection Sempervivum 16., 8vo., (200 x 140mm), publisher's illustrated black cloth, design by Claude Arthaud, gilt lettering to spine, patterned e/ps., SiGNED by the author to half-title, preface by Lucien Devies (president of the French Alpine Club), French text, 32 heliogravure plates after Marcel Ichac, sketches, 3 maps (including folding map at end), 293pp: An account of the 1950 French Expedition conquest of Annapurna led by the author, Herzog reached the summit with Louis Lachenal: HERZOG, Maurice. (1919 -2012). and ICHAC, Marcel. (1906 - 1994). Regards vers L'Annapurna. SIGNED. B. Arthaud, Paris and Grenoble, (1951). 4to., (250 x 200mm), publisher's cream card covers, black lettering to front, photo. illustrated dustwrapper unclipped, SIGNED by Maurice Herzog to half-title, ink stamped 'Neptune' top r.h corner of title page, preface by Lucien Devies, French text, colour and b/w. photo. illustrated after Marcel Ichac, Gaston Rebuffat, Maurice Herzog, Louis Lachenal, Jacques Oudot and Marcel Schatz, double-page map loosely inserted, 96pp; with a duplicate copy Regards vers L'Annapurna. SIGNED. B. Arthaud, (1951). second edition as stated, half leather and cloth, gilt lettering to spine, French text, SIGNED to half-title by Maurice Herzog, double-page map at end, 96pp: with HOUSTON, Charles S. (1913 - 2009) and BATES, R.H. (1911 - 2007) and BELL, G.I. (1926 - 2000) K2 8611M. SIGNED. Arthaud, Paris. (1954). first edition, 4to., (250 x 200mm), publisher's cream card covers, lettered in black to front and spine, French text, photo. illustrated dustwrapper unclipped, half-title, SIGNED to the title page by six members of the 1953 Third American Karokaram Expedition, including Charles Houston, Robert H. Bates, Dee Molenaar, Peter Schoening, Robert Craig and Tony Streather, photo. illustrations after members of the expedition, lacks loosely inserted map, 100pp., each volume within removeable clear wrapper. (4) Condition Report: Annapurna Premier 8.000. SIGNED: Regards vers L'Annapurna. SIGNED and duplicate copy Regards vers L'Annapurna. SIGNED. second edition - minor wear to dustwrappers and toning to leaf edges. K2 8611M - lacks the loosely inserted map, ink stamp Jean-Marc Mattlet, Profondeville, to verso of title page, some light marks to cream covers. Condition Report Disclaimer
Ɵ SHIPTON, Eric. (1907 - 1977). Four Works: first editions. Hodder & Stoughton 1936 - 1951. comprises: Nanda Devi. 1936. first edition, 8vo., (203 x 160mm), publisher's black cloth, light blue lettering to front and spine, dustwrapper unclipped, design by Bip Pares, map illustrated e/ps., illustrated half-title, full-page plates with captioned tissue guards, in-text drawings, 310pp: The author's account of his expedition with H.W. Tilman into the Rishi Gorge to the Nanda Devi Sanctuary in 1934: Blank on the Map. 1938. first edition, 8vo., (203 x 105mm), publisher's black cloth, red lettering to front and spine, dustwrapper unclipped, design by Bip Pares, foreward by T.G. Longstaff, half-title, frontispiece, 49 illustrations, 3 maps, (one folding at end), 299pp: An account of the five month expedition led by Shipton to the Shaksgam area, a section of the Karakoram range north of Kashmir in 1937: Upon That Mountain. 1943. first edition, 8vo., (201 x 140mm), black publisher's cloth, pale blue lettering to front and spine, dustwrapper unclipped, design by Bip Pares, map illustrated e/ps., half-title, foreward by Geoffrey Winthrop Young, 31 plates, 4 maps, 222pp: Mountains of Tartary. 1951. first edition, 8vo. (203 x 150mm), dustwrapper unclipped, green publisher's cloth, gilt lettering to spine, map illustrated e/ps., numerous photographic plates after the author, 224pp., each volume within removeable clear wrapper. (4) Condition Report: 1. Nanda Devi - covers worn and marked, dustwrapper with wear to corners and head/tail of spine, discolouring to inside flaps, edges and verso, some toning to tissue guards and a few pages of text. 2. Blank on the Map - light marks to boards, spine bumped head/tail, toning to edges, minor foxing and toned internally. 3. Upon That Mountain - boards rubbed at corners, spine bumped head/tail, dustwrapper marked, worn at spine and top r.h. corner, some light marks and toning internally. 4. Mountains of Tartary - clean boards, corners slightly rubbed, spine bumped head/tail of spine, dustwrapper with light marks to verso o/w. clean, some foxing to illustrated map endpapers. Condition Report Disclaimer
Ɵ EPHEMERA: MOUNT EVEREST: a group of eight commemorative publications, 1933-1993. includes a Lecture Programme SIGNED by John Hunt, and a Times colour supplement SIGNED by Jan Morris. comprises: The Times Everest Colour Supplement, 1953. SIGNED by Jan Morris. London: The Times Publishing Company Limited, September 1953. a colour supplement issue commemorating the ascent of Everest by Sir Edmund Hillary and Sherpa Tenzing Norgay on Friday, May 29, 1953, (380 x 255mm), SIGNED by Jan Morris in black ink to the front cover, price 3s. 6d., b/w. and colour photo. illustrated throughout, advertisements relating to the Expedition, 24pp. James Humphrey Morris (1926-2020) accompanied the 1953 Everest Expedition as a correspondent for the Times, his coded communique to the London newspaper paper announcing Hillary and Norgay had reached the summit arrived just in time for the Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II on June 1, 1953: LECTURE PROGRAMME: Ascent of Everest 1953. SIGNED by John Hunt. Vail & Co. Ltd., London, n.d. (c.1953). a programme for an Illustrated lecture given by John Hunt (leader of the 1953 Everest Expedition), at the Floral Hall Winter Garden Eastbourne, East Sussex, photo. illustrated, stapled covers, (277 x 250mm), SIGNED by John Hunt to the front cover in black ink, congratulatory note from the expedition patron, Prince Philip, introduction by Sir Edwin Herbert, President of the Alpine Club and J.M. Wordie, President of the Royal Geographical Society, a list of the members of the expedition with a brief biography for each, b/w. photo. illustrated, advertisements, 16pp., with a photo. illustrated flyer for the event loosely inserted, (220 x 258mm): The Geographical Journal [Off print from]. vol. 158, No. 1. Everest, 1951: cartographic and photographic evidence of a new route from Nepal, M.P. Ward and P.K. Clark. a paper accepted for publication in October 1991. Royal Geographical Society, March, 1992. a 10pp. stapled pamphlet, (240 x 175mm), SIGNED by Edmund Hillary and Michael Ward to the front cover, pp. 47-56: together with three folded Times newspaper articles, Illustrated special Everest sections titled 'Amazing Cliffs of Black Rock and Terrific Ice Slopes', 'First Pictures of the Houston Mount Everest Flight, April 24, 1933' and 'Flying to the Summit' photographs taken on the second Everest flight, May 8, 1933, 4pp: with two other commemorative publications, WEEKLY ILLUSTRATED. Conquest of Everest, July 4th, 1953. b/w. and colour illustrated: THE GUARDIAN WEEKEND. March 13, 1993. Everest 1953. the 6pp. article includes a biography of each of the climbers. (8) Condition Report: 1. The Times Everest Colour Supplement. September 1953, SIGNED by Jan Morris - covers with light marks overall, and rust marks from the staples internally, o/w. a clean copy. 2. LECTURE PROGRAMME. Ascent of Everest 1953 - the programme covers marked and a little creased, rust marks from the staples, further minor marks and light creases internally. The flyer - a clean copy. 3. The Geographical Journal, March 1992 SIGNED by Edmund Hillary and Michael Ward - a clean copy. 4 - 6. Three folded Times newspaper articles, Illustrated special Everest sections, some edge nicks and toning to newspaper sheet edges. 7. WEEKLY ILLUSTRATED. Conquest of Everest, July 4th, 1953. - some toning to leaf edges and margins, and rust marks around the staples. 8. THE GUARDIAN WEEKEND. March 13, 1993. Everest 1953. - pages with some toning, 4 clean edge tears (approx. 11cm each) across the back cover page. Condition Report Disclaimer
Ɵ WASHBURN, Bradford. (1910 - 2007). Four Works: first editions, SIGNED by the author, 1927-1930. comprises: G.P. Putnam's Sons, Knickerbocker Press, New York, London. Among the Alps with Bradford, 1927. 8vo., (200 x 145mm), publisher's orange cloth, black lettering to front and spine, pale blue map illustrated e/ps., half-title, SIGNED and dated 2002 by the author to title page, 44 b/w. photo. illustrations (including frontispiece), publisher's catalogue at end, 160pp: Bradford on Mount Washington, 1928. 8vo., (200 x 145mm), publisher's purple cloth, dustwrapper unclipped, map illustrated e/ps., half-title, SIGNED and dated 2002 by the author to front map illustrated e/p. half-title, 31 photo. illustrations (including frontispiece), sketches, publisher's catalogue at end, 123pp: a duplicate copy of Bradford on Mount Washington. 1928. 8vo., publisher's purple cloth, map illustrated e/ps., half-title, SIGNED and dated 2002 by the author to front map illustrated e/p., 123pp: Bradford on Mt. Fairweather. 1930. 8vo., (200 x 145mm), publisher's blue cloth, half-title, photo. illustrated e/ps., SIGNED and dated 2002 by the author to front e/p., 31 b/w. photo. illustrations (including frontispiece), 3 maps, publisher's catalogue at end, 127pp. each volume within removeable clear wrapper. Bradford Washburn was one of America's foremost mountaineers. He led many first ascents and established new routes on several Alaskan peaks, often climbing with his wife Barbara who was a pioneer among female mountaineers. (4) Condition Report: 1. Among the Alps - cloth bright, foxing to edges, first free e/ps, title page, and pp.143 - 160. 2. Bradford on Mount Washington. 1928 - purple boards worn, spine faded and bumped head/tail, dustwrapper clean with chips to spine and corners, toning throughout with light foxing to a few pages. 3. Bradford on Mount Fairweather. duplicate copy. 1928. ( purple cloth, lacks dustwrapper) - boards marked, corners scuffed, spine faded and bumped head/tail, frontispiece present but detached, toning throughout. 4. Bradford on Mt. Fairweather (blue publisher's cloth) - light marks to boards, spine faded, toning throughout. Condition Report Disclaimer
Ɵ HILLARY, Edmund. (1919 - 2008) & HILLARY, Louise. (1953 - 1975). Four SIGNED first editions. 1964-1968. comprises: HILLARY, Edmund. (1919 - 2008). School House in the Clouds. SIGNED. Garden City, NY., Doubleday & Company Inc., 1964. first American edition, 8vo., (220 x 150mm) black publisher's cloth, gilt lettering to spine, dustwrapper unclipped, map illustrated e/ps., design Raphael Palacios, half-title, SIGNED by the author to title page, 180pp: HILLARY, Edmund. (1919 - 2008). editor: Challenge of the Unknown. SIGNED. E.P. Dutton & Co. Inc. New York, 1958. first edition, 8vo., (220 x 150mm), publisher's grey cloth, dustwrapper unclipped, design Joseph Kemmer, SIGNED by the author to title page, 221pp: HILLARY, Louise. (1953 - 1975). Keep Calm If You Can. Round the World with the Hillary Family. SIGNED. Hodder and Stoughton, 1964. first edition, publisher's green cloth, gilt lettering to spine, dustwrapper clipped, map illustrated e/ps., half-title, SIGNED by the author and her husband, Edmund Hillary to title page, b/w. photo. illustrated, 159pp: HILLARY, Louise. A Yak for Christmas. The Story of a Himalayan Holiday. SIGNED. Hodder & Stoughton, 1968. first edition, 8vo., (220 x 150mm), navy blue publisher's cloth, gilt lettering to spine, dustwrapper clipped, map illustrated e/ps., half-title, SIGNED by the author to title page, b/w. photo. illustrated, 208pp., together with two loosely inserted Christmas cards from the Hillary family, one photo. illustrated, a 5 line manuscript note to verso from Louise to New Zealand botanist Dr. Lucy Cranwell Smith, a friend of the Hillary family, and two newspaper clippings, one relating to the untimely death of Sir Edmund Hillary's wife Louise, and teenage daughter Belinda, in a plane crash in 1975. Provenance: this copy from the Library of botanist Dr. Lucy Cranwell Smith. (4) Condition Report: 1. School House in the Clouds - clean copy, slight loss to lower spine of dustwrapper. 2. Challenge of the Unknown - light marks to boards, spine bumped head/tail, dustwrapper with a few edge nicks to top and lower spine, some toning to leaf edges. o/w. a clean copy. 3. Keep Calm If You Can - clean, bright cloth, spine bumped head/tail, some foxing to inside flaps of dustwrapper, e/ps. title page and further sporadic foxing internally. 4. A Yak for Christmas - clean, bright boards, corners scuffed, spine bumped head/tail, dustwrapper repaired top centre with wear to corners and top of spine, stain to top r.h. corner of front map illustrated e/p., minor marks internally, o/w. a clean copy. Condition Report Disclaimer
Ɵ SMYTHE, Francis Sydney. (1900 - 1949). Two Works: INSCRIBED. 1930-1932. comprises: Kamet Conquered, Presentation copy to the author's mother. London: Victor Gollanz Ltd., 1932. first edition, 8vo. (240 x 150mm), publisher's black cloth , dustwrapper unclipped, INSCRIBED by the author to front free e/p., 'To Mother / with Frank's love / July 28th 1932', half-title, 48 b/w. photographic plates including frontispiece, colour folding map at end, with a 10 line manuscript note written by the author's son, Tony Smythe, tipped in, 'This copy of 'Kamet Conquered' by my father, dedicated to his mother, Florence, came to me eventually after the disposal of his estate, to me it has always been a heartening tale of how a small happy group succeeded on a high and by no means easy peak, against the odds. Tony Smythe, October, 1999', 420pp: : The Kangchenjunga Adventure, INSCRIBED. London: Victor Gollanz Ltd., 1930. first edition, 8vo., (240 x 165mm), publisher's green cloth, gilt lettering to spine, dustwrapper unclipped, half-title, INSCRIBED and dated by the author to title page, 'In memory of some chums / FS Smythe / December 13th 1930', frontispiece with tissue guard, 48 b/w. photographic plates, including frontispiece with tissue guard, 464pp. both volumes within removeable clear wrapper. Frank Smythe was an English mountaineer, author, photographer, and botanist. Smythe climbed extensively in the Alps and Himalayas. In 1930 he joined an international expedition to Kangchenjunga, led by Gunther Dyhrenfurth. Frank Smythe led his own Himalayan expedition in 1931 to the Garhwal region of India north of Delhi. His team, which included Eric Shipton, made the first ascent of 7756m Kamet. Smythe was a member of three expeditions to Everest in 1933, 1936 and 1938. (2) Condition Report: 1. Kamet Conquered - bright boards, some light marks, corners a little scuffed, spine bumped head/tail, dustwrapper marked and chipped, with wear to corners and top of spine, foxing to edges running into some leaf edges, toning and sporadic foxing internally, (heavier to Index pages at end), clean plates, the map clean with toning mostly to margins. 2. The Kangchenjunga Adventure - boards with minor marks, spine bumped head/tail, foxing to edges running into a few leaf edges, toning internally o/w. a clean copy. Condition Report Disclaimer
Ɵ ADAMS, Ansel. (1902 - 1984). Books By and About: Seven Works: Two volumes SIGNED by Ansel Adams. 1958-1996. comprises: Ansel Adams Images 1923 - 1974. SIGNED. Boston: New York Graphic Society, (1974). first trade, special edition prepared for Time-Life Books subscribers, with the signature of the photographer, oblong folio. (360 x 440mm), publisher's olive green cloth, silver lettering to front and spine, dustwrapper unclipped, photo. illustrated e/ps., SIGNED by Ansel Adams, foreward by Wallace Stegner, 115 extended range b/w. photolithographic reproductions, 127pp. within glassine wrapper and contained in original brown card slipcase: ADAMS, Ansell. (1902 - 1984). and NEWHALL, Nancy. (1908 - 1974). This is the American Earth. San Francisco: Sierra Club, 1960. first edition, folio, (350 x 270mm), publisher's green cloth, gilt lettering to front and spine, dustwrapper unclipped, numerous b/w. photographic illustrations after Ansel Adams, Eliot Porter, Edward Weston et al., 89pp: JOESTING, Edward. (1925 - 1986). The Islands of Hawaii. SIGNED. Bishop National Bank of Hawaii. (1958). first edition, oblong folio., (280 x 360mm), cream card wrappers, original rice paper dustwrapper unclipped, SIGNED by Ansel Adams to title page, 105 b/w. photographs after Ansel Adams, text by Edward Joesting: ADAMS, Ansel. (1902 - 1984). Yosemite and the Range of Light. New York Graphic Society, Boston, Little Brown and Company, 1979. oblong folio.,(310 x 390mm) publisher's grey, maroon cloth, gilt lettering to spine, dustwrapper unclipped, introduction by Paul Brooks, 28pp. plus numerous photographic illustrations: BOHN, Dave. Glacier Bay. The Land and the Silence. Sierra Club, San Francisco (1967). Exhibit Format Series, first edition, 4to., (350 x 270mm), fawn cloth, silver lettering to spine, dustwrapper unclipped, blue map illustrated e.ps., b/w. and colour photo. illustrated and text by Dave Bohn, edited by David Brower, 165pp. each volume within removeable clear wrapper: SHIRAKAWA, Yoshikazu (b.1935). Himalayas. Harry N. Abrams, New York, 1971. first US. Deluxe edition, elephant folio., (420 x 310mm), original white faux morocco, red and black lettering to front and spine, dustwrapper unclipped, design by Ishibumi Mizuno, black e/ps., full and double-page colour photographs by Yoshikazu Shirakawa. 6 large folding panoramas, 2 folding maps at end, foreword by Arnold Toynbee, introduction by Sir Edmund Hillary, and a testimony by Mahendra Bir Bikram Shah Deva, king of Nepal, with an accompanying 34pp. pamphlet, 'Notes to the Photographer', all contained within a black cloth folding slipcase, stamped in red and white, paper title label, and bone tie: ALINDER, Mary Street. (b. 1946). Ansel Adams. A Biography. Henry Holt and Company, New York, 1996. first edition, black cloth over grey paper boards, white lettering to spine, dustwrapper unclipped, half-title, b/w. photo. illustrated throughout, 489pp. (7) Condition Report: 1. Ansel Adams Images 1923 - 1974 - a clean copy, the signature page detached and loosely inserted, slipcase worn, stained and a little scuffed. 2. This is the American Earth - clean copy. 3. The Island of Hawaii - foxing to card wrappers, part of front dustwrapper, and e/ps., clean internally. 4. Yosemite and the Range of Light - some marks and toning to leaf edges, o/w. a clean copy. 5. The Land and the Silence - a few marks to dustwrapper, o/w. a clean copy. 6. Himalayas - a clean copy. slipcase stained and a little scuffed, signature page detached and loosely inserted. 7. Ansel Adams. A Biography - a clean copy. Condition Report Disclaimer
Ɵ BATES, Robert H. (1911 - 2007). et al. Five Miles High. The Story of an Attack on the Second Highest Mountain in the World by Members of the First American Karakoram Expedition. SIGNED. Robert Hale Ltd., 1940. first UK. edition, 8vo., (220 x 150mm), publisher's red cloth, silver lettering to spine, dustwrapper clipped, map illustrated e/ps., SIGNED on the title page by two members of the American expedition, Charles Houston (expedition leader) and Robert Bates, plates illustrated from photographs after members of the expedition, line drawings, folding temperature chart, 319pp. An account of the 1938, first American Expedition ascent of K2: HOUSTON, Charles S. (1913 - 2009). and BATES, R. (1911 - 2002). K2 The Savage Mountain. Presentation copy. Collins, 1955. first UK. edition, 8vo., (220 x 150mm), publisher's navy blue cloth, gilt lettering to spine, dustwrapper unclipped, INSCRIBED and SIGNED to front free by six members of the 1953 American Karakoram Expedition, signatures include Charles Houston (expedition leader), Robert H. Bates, Tony Streather, and Peter Schoening, the two inscriptions read 'To Barbara and John David / all good wishes and the hope / that your future 'new life' will / take you to the Himalayas, but / not to climb only to seek / Bob Craig', and further inscribed, 'and bring a sketch pad! / - Dee Molenaar -', half title, dedication to Art Gilkey (fellow team member), 22 illustrations, map, 192pp., both volumes within removeable clear wrapper. one of the American classic books of American Himalayan mountaineering. (2) Condition Report: 1. Five Miles High. The Story of an Attack on the Second Highest Mountain in the World by Members of the First American Karakoram Expedition - boards with light marks, corners scuffed, spine bumped head/tail, dustwrapper with edge nicks head and tail of spine, foxing to inside wrapper cover flaps, edges foxed spilling over to some leaf edges. 2. K2 The Savage Mountain - clean boards, lower corners scuffed, spine bumped head/tail, dustwrapper with light marks to lower cover, some toning to pages. Condition Report Disclaimer
Ɵ SMYTHE, Frank S. (1900 - 1942). Twelve Works: three author's Presentation copies, and two SIGNED volumes, Hodder & Stoughton, 1935 - 1950. comprises: The Spirit of the Hills. 1935. INSCRIBED by the author to front free, dustwrapper unclipped, 308pp: Over the Tyrolese Hills, 1936. Presentation copy, INSCRIBED by the author to front free, 'Mother with Frank's love July 26th 1936', with a 9 line manuscript note loosely inserted, written by the author's son Tony Smythe ' . . . the accompanying copy . . . presented by my father, the author, to his mother, Florence . . .' , dustwrapper unclipped, folding map at end, 292pp; Camp Six. 1937. Presentation copy from the author and his wife, INSCRIBED by the author to title page, with an 11 line manuscript note written by Tony Smythe loosely inserted, ' . . . of all his books, this was the one that really gripped me when I read it as a boy - so near and yet so far', dustwrapper unclipped, 307pp: Mountaineering Holiday. 1940. dustwrapper unclipped, 229pp; Edward Whymper. 1940, dustwrapper clipped, folding map at end, 330pp: The Mountain Vision. 1941. dustwrapper unclipped, 308pp: Again Switzerland, 1947. dustwrapper unclipped, map illustrated e/ps., 248pp; Climbs in the Canadian Rockies, 1950. dustwrapper unclipped, 253pp; 8vo. (230 x 160mm), publisher's cloth, numerous photogravure plates after the author: together with London: Adam and Charles Black, A Camera in the Hills. 1939: Alpine Ways. Presentation copy. 1942. INSCRIBED by the author to title page 'To Lt. Col. Dickson, Yours very Sincerely Frank Smythe', pencil ownership name Captain Dickson to front free e/p., 8vo, (280 x 210mm): Snow on the Hills. INSCRIBED, 1946. INSCRIBED and dated by the author to title page, 'Yours very Sincerely / Frank Smythe / 13.12.46'; all publisher's cloth, dustwrappers unclipped: Behold the Mountains, Chanticleer Press, New York, 1949. first US. edition, large 4to., (330 x 270mm) dustwrapper unclipped, 155pp. each volume within removeable clear wrapper. (12) Condition Report: most volumes with light marks to boards, spines bumped head/tail, dustwrappers marked with edge nicks, some volumes with foxing to e/ps. edges and leaf edges, and toning internally, o/w. clean text and maps. Spirit of the Hills - brown staple mark to lower r.h. corner of front free e/p. and the first nine pages: Again Switzerland, some light foxing to the map illustrated e/ps. and leaf edges. Condition Report Disclaimer
Ɵ MOUNT McKINLEY: Two Works: first editions, 1913 - 1914. comprises: BROWNE, Belmore. (1880 - 1954). The Conquest of Mount McKinley. The Story of Three Expeditions through the Alaskan Wilderness to Mount McKinley, North America's Highest and Most Inaccessible Mountain. G.P Putman's Sons, New York, 1913. first edition, 8vo., (230 x 170mm), publisher's gilt pictorial cloth, gilt lettered decorative spine, gilt top, others untrimmed, map illustrated e/ps., previous ownership signature to front free, colour frontispiece from a painting after Belmore Browne, numerous colour and b/w. plates, folding part-coloured map at end, appendix by Herschel C. Parker, 381pp. plus 4pp. publisher's adverts. at end. Belmore Browne was a painter who accompanied many expeditions, including three attempts to reach Mount McKinley's peak, he was instrumental in disproving Dr. Cook's claim to have climbed the peak: STUCK, Hudson (1863 - 1920). The Ascent of Denali (Mount McKinley). A Narrative of the First Complete Ascent of the Highest Peak in North America. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1914. first edition, 8vo., (220 x 150mm), publisher's green illustrated cloth, gilt lettering to front and spine, foredge and lower edge untrimmed, half-title, frontispiece, photographic plates, folding map at end, 188pp. Hudson Stuck was a British native, episcopal priest, and mountaineer in the United States, who co-led with Harry P. Karstens, the first expedition to successfully climb Denali (Mount McKinley) in June 1913; both volumes within removeable clear wrapper. (2) Condition Report: 1. The Conquest of Mount McKinley - clean boards, bumped to tail of spine, some toning to leaf edges, the map clean. 2. The Ascent of Denali (Mount McKinley) - boards clean save a few light marks, corners scuffed, spine bumped head/tail, front e/ps. with clean tear at hinge, a few leaf edges with edge chips, map clean. Condition Report Disclaimer
Ɵ GREGORY, Alfred. (1913 - 2010). Three Works: SIGNED first editions, 1954-1993. comprises: The Picture of Everest. SIGNED. Joint Himalayan Committee of the Royal Geographical Society and the Alpine Club. Hodder and Stoughton. 1954. first edition, Deluxe issue, 4to., (280 x 225mm), publisher's original gilt decorated white paper over boards, gilt lettered decorated spine, navy blue textured, gilt titled dustwrapper, unclipped, a chart of the ascent to rear e/p., SIGNED by Alfred Gregory to title page, and further SIGNED by John Hunt at the end of the foreward, 43 full-page colour photographs after original photographs taken by members of the British Mount Everest Expedition 1953, 92pp: Alfred Gregory's Everest. SIGNED. Constable. London, 1993. first edition, 4to., (280 x 200mm), publisher's black cloth, silver lettering to spine, dustwrapper unclipped, foreward by Jan Morris, SIGNED to the half-title by Alfred Gregory, John Hunt, George Lowe, Edmund Hillary, ('Ed Hillary'), and Times correspondent, Jan Morris, (James Morris), b/w. photo. illustrations, 183pp. published to commemorate the 40th anniversary of the first ascent of Everest. both volumes within glassine wrappers: Alfred Gregory's Photographic Portrait. Blackpool. A Celebration of the '60s. SIGNED. Constable, London, 1993. first edition, square 8vo., (222 x 197mm), photo. illustrated soft wrappers, half-title, SIGNED by the author in blue ink to title page, foreward by Thora Hird, b/w. photo. illustrations after Alfred Gregory throughout, 175pp. Alfred Gregory was a British mountaineer, explorer and professional photographer. He was stills photographer and a member of the 1953 British Mount Everest Expedition led by John Hunt, reaching 28,000 feet (8,500 m) in support of the successful first ascent by Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay. (3) Condition Report: 1. The Picture of Everest - light marks to cream gilt paper covered boards, foxing to top edge, some scuffs and marks to navy blue dustwrapper, some sporadic foxing internally, o/w. a clean copy. 2. Alfred Gregory's Everest - a clean copy. 3. Alfrded Gregory's Blackpool - a clean copy. Condition Report Disclaimer
Ɵ NOYCE, Wifrid. (1917 - 1962). Five Works: first editions, four volumes SIGNED by the author. 1950-1958. (5) comprises: Scholar Mountaineers: pioneers of Parnassus. SIGNED. London: Dennis Dobson Ltd., 1950. first edition, 8vo., (220 x 150mm), publisher's buff cloth, silver lettering to spine, dustwrapper unclipped, SIGNED by the author to front free, wood engravings by R. Taylor, 164pp: Michael Angelo. A Poem in twelve parts, with Epilogue. SIGNED. William Heinemann Ltd., 1953. first edition, 12mo., (190 x 130mm), publisher's red cloth, gilt lettering to spine, dustwrapper unclipped, half-title, SIGNED by the author to front free, illustrated by R. Taylor, 71pp: South Col. One Man's Adventure on the Ascent of Everest 1953. Presentation copy. William Heinemann Ltd., 1954. first edition, 8vo., (220 x 140mm), publisher's black cloth, gilt lettering to spine, illustrated e/ps., dustwrapper clipped, John Johnson's black, gilt label to front pastedown, foreward by John Hunt, half-title, SIGNED to the title page by John Hunt, and further INSCRIBED and dated by Wifrid Noyce 'Good Wishes / Wifrid Noyce / 19.7.55'. b/w. and colour photographic plates, line drawings, 5 maps, 303pp: The Springs of Adventure. SIGNED. John Murray, London, 1958. first edition, 8vo. (220 x 150mm), publisher's blue cloth, gilt lettering on black to spine, dustwrapper unclipped, design Maurice Bartlett, SIGNED by the author to front free e/p., b/w. photo. illustrations, 240pp: Climbing the Fish's Tail. Heinemann, 1958. first edition, unsigned, 8vo., (200 x 140mm) publisher's navy cloth, gilt lettering to spine, dustwrapper unclipped, 24 b/w. photographic plates, 2 maps, 150pp. each volume within removeable clear wrapper. Wifrid Noyce was an English mountaineer and author. He was a member of the 1953 British Everest Expedition. Noyce and Sherpa Annullu (the younger brother of Da Tensing) were the first members of the expedition to reach Everest's South Col on 21 May, 1953. Wilfrid Noyce climbed up to the South Col a second time on 29 May, (the day of the successful first ascent) when he, Sherpa Pasang Phutar, and George Lowe met the successful summit team of Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay at the Col, giving the tired climbers drinks and congratulations. (5) Condition Report: 1. Scholar Mountaineers. - clean boards, spine bumped head/tail, dustwrapper with light marks and small tear (with loss) to top of spine, some toning internally, o/w. a clean copy. 2. Michael Angelo - a few minor marks to boards, spine bumped head/tail, dustwrapper moderately marked, some wear to edges especially to the spine, some foxing to first few pages. 3. South Col. - light marks to boards, spine faded and bumped head/tail, dustwrapper with toning and creasing to inside flaps o/w. clean, first few pages including title page foxed, some toning to leaf edges. 4. The Springs of Adventure - clean bright boards, lower front corner bumped, spine a little bumped head/tail, dustwrapper clean, chipped (with some loss) to head/tail of spine. 5. Climbing the Fish's Tail - unsigned, clean bright boards, lower front corner bumped, dustwrapper clean, some foxing to edges running into leaf edges, toning to most pages. Condition Report Disclaimer
Ɵ URING, Capt. Nathaniel. A History of the Voyages and Travels of Captain Nathaniel Uring, With A New Draught of the Bay of Honduras. Very useful for Masters of Ships that use the Leeward island Trade, or Jamaica. Printed for John Clarke, under the Royal Exchange, Cornhill, 1749. single volume, third edition, 8vo., (200 x 130mm), rebound full calf, gilt title and date to decorative spine with raised bands, new e/ps., the nautical bookplate of John Montagu Ratner to front pastedown, folding Topographical Map of France and folding New Draught of the Bay of Honduras by Capt. Nathaniel Uring, 384pp. Uring's adventures were by no means confined to the Spanish Main, and the History includes chapters on Virginia, the Baltic, West Africa, the Azores etc. as well as descriptions of his many voyages to and from North America. Sabin, 98126. (1) Condition Report: a few minor scratches to boards, o/w. a clean binding, browning to edges and leaf edges, some chips to a few of the final pages (with small loss), sporadic light foxing throughout, slightly heavier to first few pages, the two folding maps browned and brittle, (quite fragile), A New Draught of the Bay of Honduras with approx. 7 clean edge tears affecting the margins, and chips to edges (some with loss), with a clean edge tear, approx. 7cm along lower centre fold. Condition Report Disclaimer
Ɵ ROCK CLIMBING: ABRAHAM, G. & A. and JONES, Owen Glynne. Four Works: 1900-1908. comprises: ABRAHAM, George. (1871 - 1965). Mountain Adventures at Home and Abroad, SIGNED. Methuen & Co., 1910. first edition, 8vo., (225 x 150mm), publisher's maroon cloth, gilt lettering to front and spine, foredge and lower edge untrimmed, SIGNED and dated March. 2. 1910 in pencil by the author to the front e/p., the bookplate of John Wigham Richardson over a previous bookplate (unknown) to front pastedown, half-title, frontispiece, 35 full-page b/w. plates from photographs, 308pp., plus 31pp. publisher's catalogue at end: ABRAHAM, George. (1871 - 1965). and ABRAHAM, Ashley. (1876 - 1951). Rock-Climbing in North Wales, G.P. Abraham, Keswick, Cumberland, 1906. first edition, 8vo., (235 x 170mm), publisher's black cloth, gilt lettering to spine, gilt top, black e/ps., half-title, 30 full-page monogravure illustrations, 10 pen and ink sketches, 11 outline drawings of routes, including frontispiece with tissue guard, publisher's catalogue at end, 349pp: ABRAHAM, Ashley. (1876 - 1951). Rock-Climbing in Skye. Longmans, Green & Co., 1908. first edition, 8vo., (235 x 165mm), publisher's navy blue cloth, gilt lettering to front and spine, gilt top, edges untrimmed, dark green e/ps., half-title, 30 full-page illustrations in collotype, 9 diagrams of routes, folding map in rear pocket, adverts at end, 330pp: JONES, Owen Glynne. (1867 - 1899). Rock Climbing in the English Lake District, G.P. Abraham & Sons, 1900. second edition, 8vo., (235 x 170mm), publisher's black cloth, gilt lettering to spine, dark green e/ps., portrait frontispiece with tissue guard, 31 full-page illustrations in collotype, 9 outline drawings of routes, appendix by George and Ashley Abraham. each volume within removeable clear wrapper. Ashley and George Abraham were often known as 'the Keswick-Brothers' and were climbers, authors, and photographers, together with Owen Glynne Jones they were largely responsible for the popularization of rock-climbing in the British Isles. (4) Condition Report: 1. Mountain Adventures at Home and Abroad - boards marked and corners scuffed, spine bumped head/tail, with foxing throughout. 2. Rock-Climbing in North Wales - boards clean with minor marks, front board hinge splitting, edges foxed and further foxing to front free, title and a few pages of text, some toning, o/w. a clean copy. 3. Rock-Climbing in Skye - clean boards, spine bumped head/tail, map creased lower l.h, mostly affecting the margin, foxing throughout. 4. Rock-Climbing in the English Lake District - boards marked and scuffed, spine bumped head/tail, e/ps. creased, frontis, tissue guard, and title page foxed, toning mostly to leaf edges, with further light foxing internally. Condition Report Disclaimer
Ɵ DRINKWATER, John. (1779 - 1783). A History of the Late Siege of Gibraltar. With a Description and Account of that Garrison, from the Earliest Periods. London: T. Spilsbury, 1786. second edition corrected as stated, single volume, 4to., (310 x 247mm), half red gilt morocco, gilt title and date to decorative spine with raised bands, marbled edges, marbled e/ps., nautical illustrated bookplate of Jack Montagu Ratner to front pastedown, 10 engraved folding maps and plates, advertisement to the second edition, 4pp. subscribers list, appendix, 356pp. (1) Condition Report: minor marks to cloth boards, and a little scuffing to corners, some light foxing throughout affecting a few plates, browning mostly to leaf edges, some pages a little crinkly. Condition Report Disclaimer
Ɵ FUCHS, Vivian. (1908 - 1999). and HILLARY, Edmund. (1919 - 2008). The Crossing of Antarctica. The Commonwealth Trans-Atlantic Expedition, 1955-58. SIGNED, Cassell, 1958. first edition, 8vo., (230 x 150mm), publisher's blue cloth, silver lettering to spine, dustwrapper unclipped, map illustrated e/ps., SIGNED to the half-title by Edmund Hillary and George Lowe, further SIGNED by Vivian Fuchs to printed label pasted to the dedication page, b/w. and colour photo. illustrated, 9 in-text maps, 338pp: HILLARY, Edmund. (1919- 2008) and DOIG, Desmond. (1921 - 1983). High in the Thin Cold Air. SIGNED. Hodder & Stoughton, 1962. first edition, 8vo., (220 x 140mm), grey publisher's cloth, red lettering to spine, dustwrapper clipped, design by W. Heaton Cooper, map illustrated e/ps., half-title, SIGNED to the title page by Edmund Hillary, Desmond Doig and George Lowe, b/w. photo. illustrated, 287pp: HILLARY, Edmund. (1919 - 2008) No Latitude for Error. SIGNED. London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1961. first edition, second impression, 8vo., (230 x 150mm) black publisher's cloth, silver lettering to spine, dustwrapper unclipped, design Michael Ross, new e/ps., half-title, SIGNED by Edmund Hillary and George Lowe to title page, b/w. photo. illustrated, 2 diagrams, 6 maps, 255pp: each volume within removeable clear wrapper. (3) Condition Report: 1. The Crossing of Antarctica - cloth with speckled marks, spine bumped head/tail, some light marks to front of dustwrapper and a few chips to head and tail of dustwrapper spine, foxing to leaf edges o/w. a clean copy. 2. High In the Thin Cold Air - boards marked, spine bumped head/tail, dustwrapper lightly marked and edge chips top of spine, photo. illustrated frontispiece splitting from title page at lower end, some foxing to edges, index pages with foxing and some staining, toning to leaf edges. 3. No Latitude for Error - clean boards, spine bumped head/tail, dustwrapper with light marks and toning, and edge chips to top and lower spine, a very faint inscription present on front free e/p., some toning to leaf edges, o/w. a clean copy. Condition Report Disclaimer
Ɵ STEPHEN, Leslie. (1832 - 1904). The Playground of Europe. Laura Makepeace Stephen association copy. London: Longmans, Green & Co., 1871. single volume, first edition, 8vo., (190 x 135mm), half green morocco, gilt-lettered red label and raised bands to spine, half-title, manuscript signature 'Laura Makepeace Stephen, 8.3.71' in black ink to half-title, vignette title page, 4 wood-engraved plates, 321pp., within a removeable clear wrapper. Laura Makepeace Stephen (1870-1945) was the first child born to Leslie Stephen and Harriet Marion 'Minnie' Thackeray (daughter of William Makepeace Thackeray). Laura was the half-sister to Virginia Woolf, Vanessa Bell, Thoby Stephen and Adrian Stephen. Laura was admitted to Earlswood Asylum, Surrey aged 23, later moving to the private care of professionals until her death in 1945. (1) Condition Report: boards with light wear, occasional foxing and toning throughout, foxing heavier to e/ps., front free e/p, half-title and title page. Condition Report Disclaimer
Ɵ YOUNGHUSBAND, Francis. (1863 - 1942). The Heart of a Continent. A Narrative of Travels in Manchuria, Across the Gobi Desert, through the Himalayas, The Pamirs, and Chitral, 1884-1894. London: John Murray, 1896. single volume, first edition, 8vo., (240 x 170mm), publisher's decorated olive green gilt cloth, gilt lettering to spine, patterned e/ps., previous ownership signature, frontispiece, 17 photographic plates, 4 folding maps, (one folding in pocket at end), 410pp., within removeable clear wrapper: an account of Younghusband's ten year exploration of Central Asia, including his race against Colonel M.S. Bell from Peking to Kashmir. (1) Condition Report: boards with light marks, corners scuffed, spine bumped head/tail, the folded map in pocket at end with small pin hole to top l.h., toning to edges of margins and verso, o/w. clean. Condition Report Disclaimer
Ɵ EVEREST: FILM PRESS BOOK, INSCRIBED by Captain John Noel, (c.1924) and a FILM PROGRAMME, 1922. comprises: FILM PRESS BOOK: 'The Epic of Everest'. INSCRIBED by Captain John Noel, n.d. (c. 1924). a Press Book for a screening of Captain John Noel's film 'The Epic of Everest' (1924), 4to., (255 x 185mm), the Film Record of the Great British Expedition to ascend the Highest Mountain in the World. Under the personal presentation of Captain Noel, F.R.G.S., photographer with Mt. Everest Expeditions, the laboratory work of the photography by Arthur Pereira; colour pictorial paper wrappers, INSCRIBED in blue ink to the title page by the filmmaker and mountaineer Captain John Noel, 'Captain J. Noel / Mt. Everest / Expedition / 1924', b/w. photo. illustrations, a diagrammatic view of the glaciers of the Rongbuk and Mount Everest with the sites of the camps, 14pp. John Baptist Lucius Noel (1890-1989) was a British mountaineer and filmmaker. He joined the 1924 Everest expedition as its official photographer and filmmaker. Noel formed a private company in 1924 which paid for the photographic rights of that year's Everest expedition. Captain Noel reached the North Col and used a specially adapted camera to film the ascent of the peak. The disappearance of George Mallory and Andrew Irvine added drama to the film (a note from George Mallory to Noel was the last contact with the lost explorer before his body was discovered in 1999). Noel brought a group of Tibetan monks to London which performed before the screenings of the film, but the performances of the dancing lamas offended Tibetan religious sensibilities and caused a ten year breakdown in diplomatic relations between Britain and Tibet, known as the 'Affair of the Dancing Lamas': FILM PROGRAMME: 'Climbing Mt. Everest'. Under the Auspices of the Mount Everest Committee. The Cinematograph Record of the Mount Everest Expedition of 1922. Eyre & Spottiswoode, (1922). a programme for a screening of Captain John Noel's film 'Climbing Mount Everest' (1922), 4to., (253 x 185mm), pictorial paper wrappers, b/w. photo. illustrated, 2 diagrammatic views, price sixpence, 12pp. John Noel produced this 1922 film, the first film of an Everest Expedition, and the earliest documentary filmed in Tibet. The footage documented the journey to Everest and the ascent, and scenes of Tibetan monastic life. The film was shown for eight weeks at the Philharmonic Hall in London after the group's return from the Himalayas: (2) Condition Report: 1. FILM PROGRAMME - 'Climbing Mt. Everest' - light marks to covers and toning to edges, staples a little rusty, some light marks and foxing internally, o/w. a clean copy. 2. FILM PRESS BOOK: 'The Epic of Everest' - edge nicks to paper wrappers, neat tape repairs to inside front and lower wrapper joints, pp.3-14 loosened from lower staples, some light marks and toning internally, o/w. a clean copy. Condition Report Disclaimer
Ɵ THESIGER, Wilfred. (1910 - 2003). Eight Works, and one related: five volumes SIGNED by the author. London, 1959-2001. comprises: Arabian Sands. SIGNED. Longmans, 1959. first edition, SIGNED by the author, with a loose signed note from the author's brother, Gerald Thesiger on notepaper headed with a Chelsea address, dated 1950, dustwrapper clipped: The Marsh Arabs. SIGNED. Longmans, 1964. first edition, SIGNED and dated 2000 by the author, dustwrapper clipped: Desert, Marsh and Mountain: The World of a Nomad. Collins, 1979. first edition, dustwrapper unclipped: The Life of My Choice. Collins, 1987. first edition, dustwrapper unclipped: My Kenya Days. SIGNED. Harper Collins, 1994. first edition, SIGNED and dated 2000 by the author, dustwrapper unclipped: The Danakil Diary. Journeys Through Abyssinia, 1930-34. Harper Collins, 1996. first edition, dustwrapper unclipped: Among the Mountains, Travels in Asia. SIGNED. Harper Collins, 1998. SIGNED by the author, dustwrapper unclipped: A Vanished World. SIGNED. Harper Collins, 2001. first edition, SIGNED and dated 2001 by the author, dustwrapper unclipped : ASHER, Michael. Thesiger, a Biography. Viking, 1994. first edition, dustwrapper unclipped. Provenance: from the collection of a personal friend of Wilfred Thesiger, who knew the author towards the end of his life. (9) Condition Report: 1. Arabian Sands - SIGNED, publisher's cream cloth, clean and bright, gilt lettering to spine bright, spine a little bumped head/tail, dustwrapper clipped, with light foxing to flaps and heavier foxing to inside of dustwrapper, light foxing to edges and first few pages, o/w. clean internally, the loose note from the author's brother with a small square mark to the Chelsea address, o/w. clean and bright. 2. The Marsh Arabs - SIGNED, publisher's green cloth, clean and bright, corners a little scuffed, spine also a little bumped head/tail, bright gilt lettering to spine, dustwrapper worn with two tears to top of upper cover, one of which has been repaired with tape, a small mark to front endpaper, o/w. clean internally. 3. Desert, Marsh and Mountain - publisher's brown cloth clean and bright, gilt lettering to spine bright, dustwrapper unclipped, a clean copy. 4. The Life of My Choice - publisher's black cloth clean and bright, bright gilt lettering to spine, dustwrapper unclipped, a clean copy. 5. My Kenya Days - SIGNED, publisher's black cloth clean and bright, bright gilt lettering to spine, dustwrapper unclipped, a clean copy. 6. The Danakil Diary - publisher's plum cloth clean and bright, bright gilt lettering to spine, dustwrapper unclipped, a clean copy. 7. Among the Mountains, Travels in Asia - SIGNED, publisher's black cloth clean and bright, bright gilt lettering to spine, dustwrapper unclipped, a clean copy. 8. A Vanished World - SIGNED, publisher's grey cloth, clean and bright, bright silver lettering to spine, dustwrapper unclipped, a clean copy. 9. Thesiger A Biography - publisher's black cloth clean and bright, gilt lettering to spine bright, dustwrapper unclipped, a clean copy. Condition Report Disclaimer
Ɵ TILMAN, Harold William. (1898 - 1977). Seven Works: first editions, two volumes SIGNED by the author, and one volume signed by Charles Houston, 1937 - 1974. comprises: Snow on the Equator. London: G. Bell & Sons, Ltd. 1937. first edition, 8vo., (230 x 150mm), publisher's red cloth, silver and red lettering to spine, dustwrapper unclipped, half-title, 24 plates, 4 maps, errata tipped-in, 265pp: Mount Everest 1938. SIGNED by the author. Cambridge University Press, 1948. first edition, 8vo., (220 x 140mm), brown cloth, gilt lettering to spine, dustwrapper unclipped, half-title, SIGNED by the author to title page in red ink, 48 plates, 4 maps, 160pp: When Men & Mountains Meet. Cambridge University Press, 1946. first edition, 8vo., (230 x 150mm), green publisher's cloth, gilt lettering to spine, dustwrapper clipped, half-title, 54 illustrations from photographs, 6 maps, 232pp: Two Mountains and a River. Cambridge University Press, 1949. first edition, 8vo. (220 x 150mm), publisher's blue cloth, gilt lettering to spine, dustwrapper unclipped, 82 illustrations from photographs, 6 maps (one folding), 233pp: China to Chitral. Cambridge University Press, 1951. first edition, 8vo., (240 x 160mm), publisher's pink cloth, gilt lettering to spine, dustwrapper unclipped, 69 illustrations from photographs, 4 maps, 124pp: Nepal Himalaya. SIGNED by Charles Houston. Cambridge University Press, 1952. first edition, 8vo., (220 x 150mm), publisher's blue cloth, gilt lettering to spine, dustwrapper unclipped, half-title, SIGNED by Charles Houston to title page, 61 illustrations from photographs, 7 maps, 272pp: Ice With Everything. SIGNED by the author. Nautical Publishing Company Limited, 1974. first edition, 8vo., (220 x 140mm), blue cloth, silver lettering to spine, dustwrapper unclipped, map illustrated e/ps., half-title, SIGNED by the author to title page, 19 illustrations from photographs, 2 text-maps (and endpapers) 142pp. each volume within removeable clear wrapper: Major Harold William Tilman was an English mountaineer and explorer, participating in the 1935 Reconnaissance Expedition, and as leader of the 1938 expedition, Tilman reached 27,200 feet without oxygen. He penetrated the Nanda Devi sanctuary with Eric Shipton in 1934, and in 1936 he led an Anglo-American expedition to Nanda Devi. The support team which included Peter Lloyd and H. Adams Carter, Tilman and Noel Odell succeeded in making the first ascent of the 7,816m mountain, which remained the highest summit climbed by man until 1950. (7) Condition Report: 1. Snow on the Equator - boards faded at edges, spine bumped head/tail, dustwrapper marked and chipped, toning to leaf edges. 2. Mount Everest 1938- light marks to boards, corners scuffed, foxing to e/ps. 3. When Men & Mountains Meet - light marks to boards, corners scuffed, spine bumped head/tail, dustwrapper worn at edges and spine (with loss) foxing to inside flaps, e/ps. foxed and toning to leaf edges. 4. Two Mountains and a River - clean bright boards, spine bumped head/tail, dustwrapper with light marks and chipped (with loss) head and tail of spine, some foxing to edges and first few pages, folding map clean. 5. China to Chitral - clean bright boards, a small dent to the top centre of front cover, corners scuffed, dustwrapper with a few marks and chipped (with loss) head and tail of spine, e/ps. marked, small label of Henry Southeran Booksellers to front pastedown. 6. Nepal Himalaya - boards worn at edges, spine bumped head/tail, dustwrapper marked and chipped mostly to head and tail of spine (with loss) foxing to edges and first few pages, some toning to leaf edges. 7. Ice with Everything - clean boards, spine bumped head/tail, dustwrapper clean. Condition Report Disclaimer
Ɵ FRESHFIELD, Douglas. (1845 - 1934). Four Works: first editions, one being a Presentation copy, 1865-1923. comprises: Hannibal Once More. London: Edward Arnold, 1914. first edition, 8vo., (225 x 145mm), publisher's maroon cloth, gilt lettering to spine, half-title, b/w. photo. illustrations, 3 folding maps, publisher's catalogue at end, 120pp: Italian Alps. Sketches in the Mountains of Ticino, Lombardy, The Trentino, and Venetia. London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1875. first edition, 8vo., (205 x 145mm), publisher's green decorative cloth, gilt lettering to front and spine, dark green e/ps., circular, pictorial label John Murray, Newstead, Wimbledon Park, to front pastedown, half-title, 10 full-page woodcut illustrations including frontispiece, 5 folding maps (all folding), errata tipped-in, advertisement leaf at end, 385pp: Across Country from Thonon to Trent: Rambles and Scrambles in Switzerland and The Tyrol. London: Spottiswoode & Co., 1865. first edition, 8vo., (230 x 150mm), brown cloth, circular decorative blindstamp to lower board, gilt lettering to front and spine, The Alpine Club bookplate to front pastedown, half-title, errata, 135pp: Below the Snowline, Presentation copy, Constable and Company Ltd., 1923. first edition, 8vo., (225 x 155mm) publisher's green cloth, gilt lettering to spine, INSCRIBED by the author on verso of front free e/p., 'E.M.R. / from D.W.F. / Xmas 1928', foredge and lower edges untrimmed, 9 maps, 269pp. each volume within removeable clear wrapper: Douglas William Freshfield was a British lawyer, mountaineer and author, particularly noted for his work in the Caucasus He edited the Alpine Journal from 1872 to 1880 and was an active member of the Royal Geographical Society, serving as president of both organizations. Freshfield was the first president of the Geographical Association from 1897-1911, the longest serving President in the history of the Association. (4) Condition Report: 1. Hannibal Once More - boards marked and scuffed, foxing to half title, title page, leaf edges and some further throughout. 2. Italian Alps . . . - clean binding, marginally bumped head/tail, creasing to hinges pp.194-195, pp.206-207, toning and light marks internally o/w. clean text and maps. 3. Across Country from Thonon to Trent . . . - clean boards, spine bumped head/tail, marks to e/ps. some toning to leaf edges, o/w. clean text. 4. Below the Snowline, Presentation copy - light wear to boards, spine bumped head/tail, spotting to leaf edges and occasionally throughout. Condition Report Disclaimer
Ɵ BONATTI, Walter (1930 - 2011). Magie du Mont Blanc. SIGNED. Denoel Editions, 1988. single volume, folio., (345 x 250mm), publisher's grey cloth, white lettering to spine, dustwrapper unclipped, photo. illustrated e/ps., SIGNED by the author to title page, French text, translated from the original Italian by Felix Germain, preface by Pierre Mazeaud, colour photo. illustrations throughout, 208pp., contained within a photo. illustrated, titled slipcase. Walter Bonatti was an Italian mountaineer, explorer and journalist, he pioneered difficult and little unknown climbs in the Himalayas, Alps and Pategonia. He was one of three survivors of the disasters on the Central Pillar of Frêney in 1961. (1) Condition Report: some light marks to the slipcase, o/w. a clean copy. Condition Report Disclaimer
Ɵ FITZGERALD, Edward Arthur. (1871 - 1931). Climbs in the New Zealand Alps Being an Account of Travel and Discovery. Presentation copy of H. G. Willink (illustrator), London: T. Fischer Unwin, 1896. single volume, first edition, Limited edition, number 26 of 60 SIGNED copies, 8vo., (250 x 180mm), original half red morocco and marbled boards, raised bands to spine, gilt top. foredge untrimmed, bookplate of Ernest Carrington Ouvry to front pastedown, INSCRIBED on verso of limitation leaf by the illustrator H.G. Willink, 'to E.C. Ouvry from H.G. Willink 18 June, 1898', frontispiece portrait of Fitzgerald, 46 photogravure plates from original drawings after Joseph Pennell, H.G. Willink, and A.D. McCormick, photo. illustrations after the author, folding colour map mounted on linen in lower cover pocket, with contributions by Sir Martin Conway, Professor T.G. Bonney and C.L. Barrow, 363pp. 'Fitzgerald made a number of good climbs after losing the first ascent of Mount Cook to local climbers. Both he and his book were unpopular with New Zealand mountaineers' (Neate F36). Henry George Willink (1851-1938) was a prominent Burghfield, Berkshire resident, a former vice-president of the Alpine Club, climbing in Switzerland in his early years, he married Mary Grace Ouvry in September, 1880. (1) Condition Report: some scuffing to corners, light marks to boards, spine also scuffed and bumped head/tail, a few light marks internally, foxing to the back of the linen-backing of map, o/w. clean and bright. Condition Report Disclaimer
Ɵ BRUCE, Charles Granville. (1866 -1939). Kulu and Lahoul, London: Edward Arnold, 1914. single volume, first edition, 8vo., (230 x 160mm), publisher's green cloth, silver vignette of 6 Gurkha Rifles Kukris to front, silver lettering to front and spine, edges untrimmed, half-title, photogravure frontispiece with tissue guard, 35 half tones, key map, and folding colour printed map, publisher's 6pp. Spring Announcements, 1914 at end, 307pp., within removeable clear wrapper: 'In 1912 Bruce with his new guide, Heinrich Fuhrer, and a small party (including his wife), made notable ascents up to 19,000 ft., including a passage of the newly-discovered Muztagh Pass. Bruce's account includes detailed descriptions of the region between Garhwal and Kashmir, and between the Indus and Sutlej Rivers'. Neate B198. (1) Condition Report: light marks to boards, spine bumped head/tail, foxing to edges and throughout and to the key map, internal joints cracked, the folding colour map illustrating the journey of Lieut.-Colonel The Hon. C.G. Bruce toned at edges, clean edge tear at l.h. hinge (not affecting the map) Condition Report Disclaimer
Ɵ TURKESTAN: Two Works on Turkestan in English. 1913 - 1934. comprises: RICKMERS, W. Rickmer. (1873 - 1965). The Duab of Turkestan. A Physiographic Sketch and Account of some Travels. Cambridge: University Press, 1913. first edition, 4to., (282 x 205mm), publisher's brown cloth, gilt lettering to spine, lacks dustwrapper, gilt top, half title, numerous b/w. illustrations throughout, and plans to text, folding panorama, 2 folding maps at end, 563pp: MAILLART, ELLA K. (1903 - 1997). Turkestan Solo. One Woman's Expedition from the Tien Shan to the Kizil Kum. SIGNED. Putnam, London, 1934. first English edition, 8vo., (229 x162mm), publisher's rust cloth, gilt lettering to spine, foredge and lower edge untrimmed, map illustrated e/ps., contemporary gift inscription to half-title, and further SIGNED by the author in red ink to title page, b/w. photographic plates throughout, translated from the original French by John Rodker, 307pp. (2) Condition Report: 1. The Duab of Turkestan. - cloth faded to upper cover and spine, lower corners rubbed, spine bumped head/tail, light marks to edges, toning to leaf edges o/w. a clean copy. 2. Turkestan Solo - cloth marked and worn, corners scuffed, spine discoloured and bumped head/tail, front map illus e/ps. with small marks, toning to leaf edges, o/w. clean copy. Condition Report Disclaimer
Ɵ GIBBON, Edward. (1737 - 1794). The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. London: W. Strahan and T. Cadell, 1781-1788. six volumes, mixed editions, 4to., (292 x 240mm), full tree calf, gilt lettered red and black morocco labels to gilt tooled spine, decorative bookplate to front pastedowns in each volume, the first three volumes with ink inscriptions to front pastedowns, 'Aretas Akers Junior/ the gift of his father / Sept 21st. 1801 - ', with a further ink signature 'Aretas Akres'; comprises: volume one: a new edition as stated, 1782, 704pp; volume two: second edition as stated, 1781, half-title, folding map of the Eastern Part of the Roman Empire, folding map of the Parts of Europe and Asia adjacent to Constantinople, 640pp, errata pp: volume three: second edition as stated, 1781, half-title, folding map of the Western Part of the Roman Empire, 640pp., errata pp; volume four: 1788, 620pp: volume five: 1788, 684pp; volume six: 1788, 646pp. Gibbon's 'Decline and Fall' is universally acknowledged as a historiographical work, which has been read by historians of Rome and Byzantium since publication. (6) Condition Report: boards generally clean with a few light marks, corners a little scuffed, volume 6 with a scuff to the centres of front and lower boards, light foxing throughout, a little heavier to a few pages, and to the endpapers of all volumes. blue silk ribbon bookmarks in a few vols., edges toned, leaf edges browned and marked. volume 1. - manuscript ink and pencil notes to lower pastedown headed 'Roman Empire, Dates of Power, Roman Emperors'. volume 2 - the two folding maps with light foxing and toning to margins, Eastern Part of the Roman Empire with foxing to verso, heavier foxing to pp. 400-407, pencil manuscript notes to lower pastedown. volume 3. - folding map of the Western Part of the Roman Empire slightly toned, with a small clean edge tear across 'Constantinople' just off the map in the margin. volume 4. - pp.vii - pp.26 top right hand corners of pages folded over. Condition Report Disclaimer
Ɵ BATES, Robert. and HUSTON, Charles. Four Works: SIGNED, first editions, 1939- 1994. comprises: BATES, Robert H. (1911 - 2007). et al. Five Miles High: The Story of an Attack on the Second Highest Mountain in the World by the Members of the First American Karakoram Expedition. SIGNED. Dodd, Mead & Company, New York, 1939. first edition, 8vo., (220 x 150mm), publisher's red cloth, map illustrated e/ps., half-title, SIGNED by three members of the 1938 American Expedition to title page, including Robert H. Bates, Charles Houston (expedition leader), and William P. House, frontispiece and 36 b/w. photo. illustrations after photographs taken by members of the expedition, folding temperature chart, appendices, 381pp: HOUSTON, Charles S. (1913 - 2009). and BATES, Robert H. (1911 - 2007). K2 The Savage Mountain, SIGNED. McGraw-Hill Book Company Inc., New York, Toronto, London, (1954). first edition, 8vo., (220 x 150mm), publisher's two-tone red and black cloth, gilt lettering to spine, dustwrapper unclipped, design by Ronald Clyne, half-title, SIGNED by five members of the 1953 Third American Karakoram Expedition, including Robert H. Bates, Charles Houston, Robert W. Craig, Dee Molenaar and Tony Streather, colour and b/w. photo. illustrated after photographs taken by members of the expedition, maps and line drawings by Clarence Doore, 334pp. BATES, Robert H. (1911 - 2007). Mystery, Beauty, and Danger. The Literature of the Mountains and Mountain Climbing Published in English Before 1946. SIGNED, Peter E. Randall Publisher, Portsmouth, New Hampshire, 2000. first edition, 4to., (250 x 190mm), publisher's green gilt lettered cloth, dustwrapper unclipped, green marbled e/ps., half-title, SIGNED by the author to the title page, numerous b/w. photo. illustrations including 3 unpublished 1924 Everest photographs after T. Howard Sommervell, originally taken on the same route, where three days later Mallory and Irvine disappeared in 1924, 229pp. an overview of important mountaineering authors: BATES, Robert H. (1911 - 2007). The Love of Mountains is Best. Climbs and Travels from K2 to Kathmandu. SIGNED. Peter E. Randall Publisher, Portsmouth, New Hampshire, 1994. first edition, 4to., (260 x 180mm), navy blue gilt decorated cloth, gilt lettering to spine, brown paper protective wrappers, within dustwrapper unclipped, photo. illustrated e/ps. after Bradford Washburn, half-title, SIGNED by the author to title page, colour and b/w. photo. illustrated, 493pp. each volume within removeable clear wrapper. (4) Condition Report: 1. Five Miles High - light marks to boards, spine faded and bumped head/tail, minor toning to illustrated map e/ps. and leaf edges. 2. K2 The Savage Mountain - minor marks, mostly to black section of cloth boards, spine marginally bumped head/tail, edges marked, dustwrapper edges worn, a tear to lower r.h. corner (with loss) 3. Mystery, Beauty, and Danger - a clean copy. 4. The Love of Mountains is Best - a clean copy. Condition Report Disclaimer
Ɵ MACAULAY, Kenneth. (1723 - 1779). The History of St. Kilda. T. Becket & P.A. de Hondt, London, 1764. single volume, first edition, 8vo., (215 x 138mm), contemporary calf, spine with raised bands bordered in gilt, red label to spine lettered in gilt, complete, half-title, bookseller's catalogue description tipped onto front endpaper, bookplate of T. Norcliffe to front pastedown, with manuscript ink inscription 'C.B. Norcliffe 1881' added, 1 folding map, publisher's catalogue at end. Rev. Kenneth Macaulay relays the history of St. Kilda, describing the residents and activities taking place on the Scottish island, with a particular focus on religious and pagan customs, past and present. (1) Condition Report: light foxing, some wear to corners, spine a little rubbed, small crack to tail of hinge. Condition Report Disclaimer
Ɵ HUNT, John. (1910 - 1998). The Ascent of Everest, SIGNED by the author and eleven members of the 1953 Expedition Team. Hodder & Stoughton, 1953. , single volume, first edition, 8vo., (230 x 160mm), publisher's blue cloth, gilt lettering to spine, illustrated dustwrapper unclipped, design by W. Heaton Cooper, previous ownership inscription, 'Christmas 1953, Hapton Hall, Norwich', half-title with the twelve signatures of John Hunt (expedition leader), George Lowe, Charles Wylie, George Band, Michael Ward, Tom Bourdillon, Griffith Pugh, Edmund Hillary, Wilfrid Noyce, Michael Westmacott and Tom Stobart, 8 colour photographic plates, 48 half tone plates, numerous in-text illustrations after pen and ink sketches, 290pp., within removeable clear wrapper. An account of the 1953 British Everest expedition led by British Army officer John Hunt, 'The Ascent of Everest' was written by Sir John Hunt in one month such was the demand for the story of the British Team's success. Sir Edmund Hillary and Sherpa guide Tenzing Norgay reached the summit on May 29 1953. (1) Condition Report: clean boards, light rubbing to corners, spine bumped head/tail, dustwrapper light creasing, with two clean edge tears to front, and signs of wear to corners and spine, edges foxed and some further sporadic foxing and marks internally. Condition Report Disclaimer
Ɵ WHYMPER, Edward. (1840 - 1911). Travels Amongst the Great Andes of the Equator, with Supplementary Appendix. London: John Murray, 1891 - 1892. two volumes, first editions, 8vo., (230 x 170mm), comprises: first volume: publisher's olive green gilt cloth, gilt lettering to spine, edges untrimmed, chocolate e/ps. half-title, INSCRIBED by the author to front free e/p. 'with the compliments of the author', 20 full-page plates, numerous in-text illustrations, four maps (including folding route map in rear cover pocket), 456pp; second volume: Supplementary Appendix, olive green gilt illustrated decorative cloth, chocolate e/ps., half-title, 14 plates, numerous in-text illustrations, 147pp., both volumes within removeable clear wrapper. An account of Edward Whymper's expedition to Ecuador, primarily organised by the author in order to collect data for the study of mountain sickness and of the physical effects of high altitude. (2) Condition Report: light wear and marks to boards, corners bumped, spine bumped head/tail, endpapers foxed, hinges splitting in places, some toning internally o/w. clean text, plates and maps. Condition Report Disclaimer
Ɵ REDOUTE, Pierre, Joseph. (1759 - 1840). and THORY, Claude Antoine. (1759 - 1827). Les Roses, peintes par P.J. Redoute, decrites et classees selon leur, ordre naturel. Paris: P. Dufart, St. Petersbourg: J. F. Hauër et Cie, 1835. three volumes, third edition, 8vo., (240 x 160mm), green morocco and marbled boards, French text, half-titles, 2 engraved portraits of Redoute and Thory, 184 fine stipple-engraved plates printed in colour and finished by hand, includes the colour frontispiece floral wreath, 23 new plates, portraits of Redoute and Thory, and a biographical note on Thory, none of which had appeared in either of the previous octavo editions, nor the first folio edition of 1790. The last and most comprehensive edition of one of the greatest of all flower books, published under the direction of L.J. Pirolle, the collector of roses and tulips who had supplied Redoute with many of the specimens. (3) Condition Report: boards clean, corners scuffed and spines bumped head/ tail, light foxing and marks to edges, further sporadic foxing internally to some pages affecting a few of the plates. Condition Report Disclaimer
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