Oct 18, 2016 - Sale 2425

Sale 2425 - Lot 169

Price Realized: $ 438
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 300 - $ 500
ALPINE CLUB. Peaks, Passes, and Glaciers. [First Series.] 8 mounted chromolithographed plates; 9 maps. xvi, 514 pages * Ditto, Second Series. 12 wood-engraved plates; 14 maps, printed in sepia and partly hand-colored. xiv, 445, [1]; viii, 541 pages. 2 volumes * Ditto, Third Series. 16 photographic plates. [12], 307, [1], 8 pages, including publisher's catalogue at end. Together, 4 volumes. 8vo, original cloth, moderate wear to first 3 volumes, First Series front hinge cracked; contents generally clean apart from adhesive remnants on pastedowns in Second Series and foxing on preliminaries and fore edges of Third Series. London, 1859-1932

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first editions. 'One of the most famous titles in mountaineering literature, this series of pieces by members of the Alpine Club led directly to the commencement of the Alpine Journal in 1863' (Neate). Farquhar/Cox 13, 14; Neate A32, A34, A36.