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First edition. Signed by the author on the title-page. The 1935 Mount Everest Reconnaissance, led by Eric Shipton and including H.W. Tilman, was only previously known from articles written at the time and from secondary literature. Now, for the first time, the story of the little-known, but historically-important, British Mount Everest expedition is told, using the original expedition diaries and photographs, as well as maps based on Michael Spender’s photogrammatic survey. The work is prefaced by a foreword by Lord John Hunt and an introduction by Sir Edmund Hillary, and won the James Monroe Thorington Award for Best Book in Mountaineering History at the Banff Mountain Book Festival 2006.
12. ASTILL, Tony. Mount Everest: The Reconnaissance 1935. The Forgotten Adventure. [Ashurst, Southampton]: Colorcraft for the Author, 2005.
£30 11 SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR
11. ASTILL, Tony. Mount Everest: The Reconnaissance 1935. The Forgotten Adventure. [Ashurst, Southampton]: Colorcraft for the Author, 2005.
£60
8vo (255 x 176mm). Original blue cloth, upper board and spine lettered in gilt, double dustwrapper
reproducing Michael Spender’s
photogrammatic survey; pp. [4 (blank l., half-title, frontispiece on verso)], xvii, [1 (blank)], 359, [1 (blank)], [2 (advertisements)]; photographic illustrations and maps in the text, some full-page, 3 folding maps after Spender and Ted Hatch; fine.
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8vo (255 x 176mm). Original blue cloth, upper board and spine lettered in gilt, double dustwrapper
reproducing Michael Spender’s
photogrammatic survey; pp. [4 (blank l., half-title, frontispiece on verso)], xvii, [1 (blank)], 359, [1 (blank)], [2 (advertisements)]; photographic illustrations and maps in the text, some full-page, 3 folding maps after Spender and Ted Hatch; fine.
First edition. The 1935 Mount Everest Reconnaissance, led by Eric Shipton and including H.W. Tilman, was only previously known from articles written at the time and from secondary literature. Now, for the first time, the story of this little known, but historically important, British Mount Everest expedition is told, using the original expedition diaries and photographs, as well as maps based on Michael Spender’s photogrammatic survey. The work is prefaced by a foreword by Lord John Hunt and an introduction by Sir Edmund Hillary, and won the James Monroe Thorington Award for Best Book in Mountaineering History at the Banff Mountain Book Festival 2006.
13. [ASTRONOMY]. By a Lady. [The Reverend Richard Rouse BLOXHAM, of Rugby]. Urania’s Mirror, or a View of the Heavens. London; Samuel Leigh. [1825].
£3,800
A complete set of 32 tissue-backed and engraved constellation cards (140mm x 200mm) contained within the original pink presentation card box with fine onlaid, and handcoloured, steel-engraving to lid, etched panels to sides and the original mustard satin ribbon; each card pictorially decorated, and handcoloured, with an etched constellation (engraved by Sidney Hall) perforated by variously-sized holes, designed to be viewed against a candle; a remarkable survival in fine, and vivid, condition with some dusting, rubbing, and marking, to box; scarce complete with the box, and text.
Second, and finest, edition, issued shortly after the first, which includes stars from surrounding constellations on each card.
It would appear that Urania’s Mirror was inspired by Alexander Jamieson’s Celestial Atlas, written three years earlier, as the constellation figures bear an uncanny resemblance to the earlier work and even include two which were newly introduced by Jamieson - Noctua, the owl (Card 32) and Norma Nilotica (Card 26). The set includes 80 different constellations; some now obsolete.
-sold together with the accompanying explanatory book:
ASPIN, Jehoshaphat (author). A Familiar Treatise on Astronomy, Explaining the General Phenomena of the Celestial Bodies; with numerous graphic illustrations. Written Expressly to Accompany URANIA’S MIRROR, or A View of the Heavens. London; Samuel Leigh 1825.
8vo. Original pink boards with decoratively engraved pink lettering-label to upper board, sometime neatly and cleverly rebacked to style with mottled pink paper and new endpapers; pp. xii, [1]-1991 + [i]; with large engraved folding frontispiece (A Sectional View of the Solar System), 2 other engraved, and folding, plates (Relative Magnitude of the Planets and Northern Hemisphere), 1 large folding, and handcoloured, plate (Chart of the Heavens) and other plans and tables; an uncommonly fresh and pleasing copy with a little mottling and minor soiling to covers; internally very good throughout, with some browning and light foxing to folding plates, although all crisp and complete, a little old glue to gutter of frontispiece (only apparent on the reverse) and an original front blank neatly bound in on a stub.
Second edition, with considerable augmentations and improvements.
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