May 15, 2012 - Sale 2279

Sale 2279 - Lot 353

Price Realized: $ 840
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 400 - $ 600
(ALPS.) Group of 6 volumes. Various sizes, original cloth, mostly minor wear as noted below; contents generally clean. first editions, except for Whymper and Mummery. Neate T77, S165, T76, W65, C101, M181. London, 1862-1908
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Tyndall. Mountaineering in 1861. 2 plates. Binding slightly cocked. 1862 Stephen. The Playground of Europe. 3 plates. Spine darkened, ends chipped. 1871 Tyndall. Hours of Exercise in the Alps. 7 plates. Spine darkened; scattered minor foxing. 1871 Whymper. Scrambles amongst the Alps in the Years 1860-69 . . . Fourth Edition. 23 plates; 5 maps. Spine darkened. 1893. "Regarded as the definitive edition" (Neate) Conway. The Alps from End to End. 100 plates. Covers blistered, front cover partly sunned. 1895 Mummery. My Climbs in the Alps and Caucasus . . . Second Edition (Fourth Impression). 11 plates. Spine ends rubbed. 1908.