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58. Imfeld, Xavier. Vue Panoramique prise du Sommet des Rochers de Naye (2044m.). Territet-Glion aux Rochers de Naye: Les Compagnies de Chemin de Fer, n.d. c. 1890.


£250


A large chromolithographed panorama, approx. 316 x 22 cm., numerous adverts. printed to verso, folding into original chromolithographed boards with scenes and views, slight wear to spine, else in very good condition.


A spectacular panorama from the Rochers de Naye, which lie just east of Lake Léman (Geneva). Imfeld (1853-1909) was a surveyor who also made the first topographic survey of the Matterhorn, and assisted with the Club alpin français map of the chain of Mont Blanc.


59. Javelle, Emile. Alpine Memories … With a Biographical and Literary Notice by Eugène Rambert. London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1899. £25


First English edition. 8vo. pp. vii, 444; four plates; minor age-toning, browning to endpapers, good in the original buckram, gilt, faded on spine.


Neate J21; Perret 2357. Javelle (1847-83), a Swiss schoolmaster, climbed the Matterhorn in 1870, and subsequently made the first ascent of the Tour Noire via the eastern face. His early death was due to consumption contracted while climbing in Corsica.


60. Jones, Owen Glynne. Rock-Climbing in the English Lake District. London: Longmans, Green & Co., 1897.


£350


First edition. 8vo. pp. xxvi, 284, [32 (ads.); plates from photos. by G. P. Abraham and Sons, Keswick, 11 lithograph routes; near-fine in the original cloth, gilt, very slightly rubbed, with a loosely inserted photograph showing climbers outside the Wastdale Hotel in Cumbria, dated by hand to verso Easter 1899 (creased with tape repairs to verso).


Neate J35; Perret 2396. The first in the Jones-Abraham British rock- climbing trilogy, the others being George Abraham’s Rock-Climbing in North Wales (1906, see item 1) and Ashley Abraham’s Rock-Climbing in Skye (1908, see item 2).


61. Kotzebue, August von. Travels from Berlin,


Switzerland, to Paris, in the Year 1804. London: Printed for Richard Phillips, 1806.


through £175


Fourth edition. 3 vols. 12mo. pp. [iv], 220, [i, title-page], 264 & [i, title- page], 226; some foxing, armorial bookplates of Thomas Hallifax, very good in contemporary half calf, gilt, contrasting lettering-pieces, minor rubbing.


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Wäber I.53. August von Kotzebue (1761-1817), the dramatist, and father of the explorer Otto von Kotzbue, travelled to Paris in 1804 following the death of his wife. He passed through Switzerland, and his recollections contain brief sections on Zurich, Berne, Lausanne, and Geneva. The majority of his memoir concerns Paris, and include his considerations on Napoleon.


62. Larden, Walter. Recollections of an Old Mountaineer. London: Edward Arnold, 1910.


£75


First edition. 8vo. pp. xv, 320; frontis. and 16 photo. plates; minor spotting to fore-edge, else very good in the original cloth, gilt.


Neate L12; Perret 2559. Larden was a British alpinist who did much to popularise Arolla as a climbing centre.


63. Larden, Walter. Inscriptions from Swiss Chalets. A Collection of Inscriptions found outside and inside Swiss Chalets, Storehouses, and Sheds. London, etc.: Humphrey Milford Oxford University Press, 1913.


£50


First edition. 8vo. pp. 208, leaf of corrigenda at pp. 8-9; photo. illusts.; minor foxing, embrowning to endpapers, very good in the original cloth, gilt, a little rubbed.


64. Larden, Walter, ed. Guide to the Walks & Climbs around Arolla. London: S. Chick & Co., 1908.


£75


First edition. Small square 8vo. pp. x, 156 [including notepaper from p. 139ff.]; 3 route maps; some marginal embrowning, ex libris Midland Association of Mountaineers with


their bookplate and deaccession


inkstamp to front pastedown, good and partly unopened in the original cloth, gilt, darkened on spine.


Neate L11; Perret 2558; Moss et al. ALO38. A guide book formed from the comments left in visitors’ books in the area. Three brief contributions are made by E. Aleister Crowley.


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