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33. Dent, Clinton. Above the Snow Line. Mountaineering Sketches between 1870 and 1880. London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1885.


£250


First edition. 8vo. pp. xiv, 327; three wood-eng. plates inc. frontis.; near- fine in the original cloth, gilt, a few minor marks. Provenance: Ownership inscription of Arthur Evans, February 1887, and the subsequent inscription “Presented to Wm. Ernest Corlett by his relations April 1892”.


Neate D19; Perret 1286. Clinton Thomas Dent (1850-1912), one of the foremost climbers of his day, provides here a record of his climbs, including the first ascent of the Aiguille du Dru in 1878. This copy contains a particularly tragic association: originally owned by Arthur Evans, it was presented to William Corlett following Evans’ death when the two men were climbing on Lliwedd in North Wales (the episode is related in the Abraham brothers’ Rock-Climbing in North Wales, see item 1).


34. Dent, Clinton. Mountaineering. London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1892.


£150


First edition, one of 250 Large Paper copies. Large 8vo. pp. xxii, 481; photogravure frontis. after a photo. by Donkin,12 plates, illusts. to text; staining to upper margin of frontis., occasional oxidisation to plates, good in the original half morocco, gilt, t.e.g, some wear to extremities.


Neate D20; Perret 1287. Dent edited this, the first instructional book on alpinism. “Dent’s didactic genius blossomed in this omnibus work, the first of its kind” (Neate). Dent provided most of the chapters, with contributions by Martin Conway (on maps and guide-books), Charles Pilkington (on guideless climbing), and Charles Mathews (recollections of mountaineers).


35. Durham, W. E. Summer Holidays in the Alps 1898-1914. London: T. Fisher Unwin, Ltd., [1916].


£50


First edition. Royal 8vo. pp. 207; plates from photos.; hinges slightly tender, else good in the original green cloth, gilt, bumped to extrems. partially affecting contents.


Neate D60; Perret 1459. Durham (1857-1921) was an enthusiastic Alpinist. He here describes his climbs among the Western Alps, including several ascents on Zermatt. He died in a rock-climbing accident on Tryfan, North Wales.


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36. Ebel, Johann Gottfried. Manuel du Voyageur en Suisse. Paris: Audin, 1826.


£150


“Nouvelle Edition.” 8vo. pp. [iv, list of Auberges, Obervations], [vi], xcix, 620; occasional browning, else very good in contemporary half morocco, gilt, slightly rubbed. Provenance: Bookplate of Horace Walker to front pastedown.


Wäber 46 & 61; Perret 1474. One of the many unauthorised editions of Ebel, this by the Parisian publisher Audin. According to the ‘Avis’ or notice at the front, the edition was furnished with Keller’s map of Switzerland, which - as with other guides to Italy and France advertised in the ‘Avis’ - could either be bound in or carried separately. There is no indication that the map was ever bound in to this copy, and indeed no map is present. This copy once belonged to the mountaineer Horace Walker (1838-1908), President of the Alpine Club from 1891-3, who made the first ascent of Mount Elbrus in the Caucasus.


37. Edwards, Amelia B. A Midsummer Ramble in the Dolomites. London: George Routledge and Sons, Limited, [1889].


£125


Second edition. 8vo. pp. xxiv, 389; 9 wood-eng. plates, illusts.; minor foxing, else a near-fine copy in the original blue cloth, gilt.


Neate E09; Perret 1483. Amelia Edwards’ book, which first appeared in 1873 as Untrodden Peaks and Unfrequented Valleys, was one of the first thorough descriptions of the Dolomites, an area which, until the 1860s (when Ball’s Guide To the Eastern Alps was published) was surprisingly little documented. The book is an enthusiastic


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quite humorous description of the area and its inhabitants. The author is perhaps best known as an Egyptologist: she first visited Egypt in 1873, subsequently becoming a founder of the Egypt Exploration fund, and published the much reprinted A Thousand Miles Up The Nile (1877).


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