105. Wills, Alfred. “The Eagle’s Nest” in the Valley of Sixt; a Summer Home amongst the Alps: together with some excursions among the Great Glaciers. London: Longman, Green, Longman, and Roberts, 1860.
£350
Second edition. 8vo. pp. xviii, [i], 327, 4 (ads.); 12 tinted lithographed plates after originals by the author’s wife, 2 folding maps; light foxing to plates, else very good in the original dark blue cloth, elaborately decorated in gilt, minor rubbing, a bright copy.
Wäber 140; Neate W93; Perret 4584; Meckly 219. This account of the author’s purchase of a piece of land on which to build a chalet in the Haute Savoie also contains detailed walking itineraries and accounts of climbing among the glaciers, accompanied by excellent topographical views by the author’s wife.
106. Wilson, Claude. Mountaineering. London: George Bell & Sons, 1893.
£250
Limited edition, one of 50 copies (“none of which are for sale”). 8vo. pp. vii, 208; illusts. to text after originals by Ellis Carr; spotting to endpapers, else very good in the original plain card wrappers with printed dust- wrapper, discoloured, browned on spine. Clinton Thomas Dent’s copy, with his bookplate.
Neate W96 (“a delightful period piece”); Perret 4586. An instructional work, which as Perret points out appeared a year after the first ever work of this sort by Clinton Dent (see item 34) - to whom the present copy belonged.
107. Yeld, George. Scrambles in the Eastern Graians 1878-1897. London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1900.
£125
First edition. 8vo. pp. xx, 279, [1, ads.]; 20 illusts. from photos and drawings including 1 folding panorama, 1 folding map; panorama torn and now neatly repaired, a little spotting, good in the original cloth, gilt, t.e.g., faded on spine, small dent to upper board.
Neate Y07; Perret 4630. Yeld, a one-time editor of the Alpine Journal in which parts of the present work appeared, was an authority on the Graians in the Western Alps; in 1893 he co-wrote with W. A. B. Coolidge the guide to the mountains of Cogne in that region. Yeld made many new routes, and two new ascents (the Aiguille de Tronchey and the Pointe de Piolet), described in the present work.
108. [Young, Geoffrey Winthrop.] Wall and Roof Climbing. By the Author of “The Roof-Climber’s Guide to Trinity”. Eton College: Spottiswoode and Co. Limited, 1905.
£425
First edition. 8vo. pp. 109; unopened in the original printed wrappers with yap edges, edges creased and slightly browned to margins and on spine, else a very nice copy.
Neate Y23; not in Perret. Winthrop Young (1876-1958) was an important climber of the early twentieth century, who made important contributions with books such as Mountain Craft (1920). His early enthusiasm for roof- climbing resulted in his earliest publications, initially The Roof-Climber’s Guide to Trinity (1899), and then the present work, a collection of literary references to the Cambridge sport.
25 107 108
109. Zsigmony, Emil. Im Hochgebirge: Wanderungen. Leipzig: Duncker & Humblot, 1889.
First edition. Royal 8vo. pp. xv, 365; photogravure port. frontis., 16 photogravure plates of mountain scenes after E. T. Compton, numerous wood-engravings to text; armorial bookplate of A. H. Birch Reynardson, very good in contemporary crushed half morocco gilt by Zaehnsdorf, original cloth cover and spine bound in at front and rear, t.e.g, faded/ browned on spine, minor wear to extremities.
Wäber I.107; Perret 4659. Zgismondy (1861- 1885) was a noted Austrian mountaineer who died during an attempt on the north face of the Meije in South-Eastern France. The present work, posthumously published under the editorship of K. Schulz, offers accounts of Zsigmondy’s climbs in the Alps and the Dolomites. It includes a list of his successful climbs at the rear.
£275 105 106
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