Oct 18, 2016 - Sale 2425

Sale 2425 - Lot 318

Price Realized: $ 500
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Estimate: $ 400 - $ 600
(SWITZERLAND.) Group of 8 volumes. Various sizes, the second in publisher's gilt-blocked sheep, the third in contemporary 1/2 sheep, the rest in original cloth, varying wear; contents clean except as noted. London, 1834-90; Edinburgh, 1902
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Hayward. Some Account of a Journey across the Alps . . . (Printed for Private Circulation.) 44 pages. Spine chipped, front cover detached; scattered minor foxing. Bookplate of Vernon Howard. [1834.] Title page inscribed by the author.

[Rickman.] Diary of a Solitaire; or, Sketch of a Pedestrian Excursion through Part of Switzerland. [iii]-liii, [3], 111, [2] pages, including errata leaf at end. 1835. Front flyleaf inscribed by the author. Meckly 161.

Williams. The Alps, Switzerland, and the North of Italy. Wood-engraved frontispiece and numerous text illustrations; map. viii, 633 pages. Opening leaves foxed. 1854. Meckly 217.

[Longman & Trower.] Journal of Six Weeks' Adventures in Switzerland, Piedmont, and the Italian Lakes. Folding map. [8], 123, [1] pages. Binding cocked, spine heavily faded and chipped in several places. Bookplate of Vernon Howard. 1856. Half-title inscribed and signed by Longman. Meckly 114.

Dowsing. Rambles in Switzerland; with Reminiscences of the Great St. Bernard, Mont Blanc, and the Bernese Alps. Double-page wood-engraved frontispiece. [8], 139 pages. Spine faded, covers blistered. Bookplate of Vernon Howard. 1869.

Dent. Above the Snow Line: Mountaineering Sketches between 1870 and 1880. 3 wood-engraved plates. xiv, 327 pages. Spine darkened, ends rubbed. 1885.

Malkin. Leaves from the Alpine Notebooks. Reprinted from the Alpine Journal, Feb., May and Aug., 1890. Mounted albumen photograph portrait of the author. [2], iii, [1], 74 pages. Front cover blistered. [1890.]

Moore. The Alps in 1864: A Private Journal. 22 plates; 10 maps. xxxv, [1], 444 pages. Foxing on fore edges showing internally, free endpapers browned. Bookplates of Frederick William Mills and Vernon Howard. 1902.