Bern, (Switzerland): G.A. Baeschlin and Typarsatz und Offsetdruck der Polygraphischen Gesellschaft, 1914 and 1928. First edition for both items. 12mo. 2 volumes: x, 103, (1); 20 pp. Illustrated from photographs, plates, one folding, map; Nachtrag illustrated from line drawing, one folding plate. Each item with the ownership signature of Miriam..... More
London: Methuen & Co., (1938). First edition in English. 8vo. xv, 203 pp. Illustrated from photographs, plates, four maps and diagrams. Translated from the first edition "Karakoram: l'expédition française a l’himalaya," published in Paris in 1937. Neate 247: "Attempt on Gasherbrum I (Hidden Peak)." Very Good. Original brown cloth, gilt..... More
(Montreal: Canadian Express Co.), nd [1916]. Elaborate promotional for the Grand Trunk Railway, British Columbia, and Alaska. 8vo. 47 pp. Illustrated from photographs, large folding map (c. 1910) of the railway system. OCLC - Alberta; and McGill, as well as the Yale copy of a 1915 issue. Original color illustrated..... More
London: Longman, Reese, Orme, and Green, 1830. Second edition (first issued in 1828). 8vo. x, (1), 148 pp. Illustrated, 19 plates, 3 folding maps (one with a repaired tear). Neate 38. Contemporary black half-calf (rubbed), gilt, and marbled boards, spine gilt with rules ornamentation, and title (dull); owners' names on..... More
Philadelphia, (PA): Geographical Club of Philadelphia, January, 1893. First edition, Bulletin of the Geographical Club of Philadelphia, Vol. I, no. 1, a separate. 8vo. 35 pp. Four plates from paintings and sketches by the author. On the importance, pleasures, and difficulties of the sport. Inscribed on a front endpaper by..... More
Boston, (MA): Nathaniel Noyes, 1856. First edition. 12mo. 72 pp. Each page of text framed within a thin rule. Bent, p. 2. While attempting an ascent of Mt. Washington, Dr. Ball lost his way as a snowstorm began, spending three days in the elements with virtually no protection, until finally..... More
New York: Harper & Brothers for the Swiss Foundation for Alpine Research, 1955. First American edition. (from sheets printed in Switzerland). 8vo. 222 pp. Illus. from photos, plates, some folding, maps. Annual survey of world mountaineering, this one covering 1954 expeditions, with articles written by climbers. Very good. Gilt-stamped brown..... More
London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington. Limited St. Dunston's House. Fetter Lane, Fleet Street, E.C., 1888. Expanded and revised edition. 8vo. ix, 208, 7 pp. Green cloth with gilt lettering and line drawing on front cover. Frontis; plates and in text illustrations; folding map. Library plate stating "Property of..... More
London: Robert Hale Limited, 1940. First British edition (first published in the United States the previous year). 8vo. 319 pp. Plates, line drawings, folding temperature chart, endpaper maps. Account of a 1938 ascent of K2, the second highest mountain in the world, that reached 26,000 feet , about 2200 feet..... More
Muenchen, (Germany): Verlag Knorr & Hirth GMBH, 1931-1933. First edition of each volume. 8vo. 2 volumes: 174; 191 pp. Illustrated from photographs, plates, some folding, maps and plans. Mountaineer Robert L.M. Underhill's copy, with his ownership stamp on the front pastedown. Underhill (1889-1983) was an "American mountaineer best known for..... More
London: T. Werner Laurie, [1914]. First edition. 8vo. xii, 218 pp. Plates, portraits. Neate 135: "Good selection of photographs of early climbers." Rather persistent foxing, else very good. Original green cloth, gilt spine title (dull). (#8413). More
Westminster: Archibald Constable and Co., 1895. First Edition. 8 vo. xii. 403pp. With 100 full-page illustrations by A.D. McCormick. Original quarter vellum and light sage green cloth (lightly soiled), top page edges gilt. 1 / 100 copies on better paper and deluxe binding. This copy lacks limitation page. A very..... More
London: Longmans, Green, 1889. First edition. 8vo. xi, 336 pp. Publisher's undated 24-pagge catalogue at the rear. Many references to mountaineering in Switzerland and an entire section (72 pages) devoted to Zermatt as a mountaineering center." Neate 185: "[The author's] books are invaluable for detail and accuracy." Very good. Original..... More
London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, and Rivington, 1888. Second edition. 4to. viii, 180 pp. Illustrated from photographs and wood engravings, plates, 22 photogravure portrait plates, dedication leaf with an additional small photogravure portrait. Neate 197: "Illustrated with Abney's superb photographic portraits. The second edition is the nicest version." Signature or..... More
New York: E.P. Dutton and Co., 1912. First American edition. 4to. 2 volumes: xvii, 469 pp.; portfolio volume containing 18 folding panoramas, three folding maps, and a 16-page pamphlet printing a list of illustrations and an index. Half-title to the text volume. Neate 266 (for the British edition). "One of..... More
Kempten und Muenchen: Jos. Koesel'sche, 1909. 8vo.; 104pp. Illustrated, folding map in pocket at rear. Original cloth-backed pictorial boards. Very good. First edition. Mountain climbing in the Allgau region of the Bavarian Alps. Uncommon; not in the NUC. More
London: Methuen & Co., (1932). First edition (the first two series issued in 1859 and 1862). 8vo. xi, 307 pp. Plates. A collection of articles that appeared in the first five volumes of "Alpine Journal." Neate 22: "[The first two series] are commonly regarded as the cornerstones of any mountaineering..... More
New York, London, and Sydney: Interscience Publishers, 1964. First edition. 4to. xv, (1), 289 pp. [printed double-column]. Illustrated from photographs, maps, diagrams, tables, large color folding map, in two sheets, in pocket on rear pastedown. A detailed work, a standard for the subject. Very good. Illustrated blue cloth. (#8457). More
London: H.F. and G. Witherby, 1927. First edition. 8vo. 224 pp. Plates. Neate 302. Very good. Original gilt-stamped green cloth, top edge gilt, others untrimmed. (#8415). More
London: Longmans, Green, 1870. First edition. 8vo. vii, (2, contents), 181 pp. Frontispiece from a wood engraving, two folding maps (one laid down on tissue and with residue from old tape repairs). Neate 316: "[The author was an] enthusiastic but inept mountaineer, who had a number of lucky escapes. In..... More
Cambridge, MA: Privately printed, 1932. First edition. 12mo. 30, (1) pp. Illustrated with one plate of a mountain view from a photograph. Brief account of hiking and mountaineering on Mount Desert Island, Maine, without much substance, by four outdoor enthusiasts and a dog. Not in Neate. OCLC locates five copies..... More
London: EKEK Books, (1954). First edition in English. 8vo. 254 pp. Illustrated from photographs, plates, some in color, maps. "Story of the successful 1953 Austro-German ascent of Nanga Parbat, located in northern Pakistan, the ninth tallest mountain in the world, anchoring the western Himalayas. Neate 364. Edges foxed, but a...... More
London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1856. First edition. 8vo. xvi, 95 pp. Folding map; publisher's catalogue. Original navy cloth, gilt spine title; rear joint repaired, else very good. More
London: John Murray, 1918. Second printing (August, 1918; first published July, 1918). 8vo. 2 volumes: x, (2), 546; vi, (2), 569 pp. Illustrated from photographs, plates, portrait plates, folding map of Sikkim and Eastern Nepal. "Note: In this second impression various errors and misprints have been corrected, and a few..... More
New York: Harcourt, Brace & Co., (c1939). First American edition. 8vo. (12), 331 pp. Illustrated from photographs, plates, line drawing vignettes as chapter head-pieces, large folding map at rear. "The full account of an eighteen months' search in South Eastern Tibet for the source of the Salween — the black..... More
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