1. Abraham, George and Ashley. Rock-Climbing in North Wales. Keswick: G. P. Abraham, 1906.


£450


First edition. 8vo. pp. xxii, 394, [4, ads.]; 30 plates from photos., 9 lithograph routes; some tissue-guards creased, else fine in the original cloth, gilt.


Neate A08; Perret 0003. The second in the Jones-Abraham British rock- climbing trilogy (see also next item and item 60), judged by Neate to be Abraham’s best book. Pages 233-6 describe the climbing accident when a young Arthur Evans lost his life while climbing on the western buttress of Lliwedd with W. E. Corlett.


2. Abraham, Ashley P. Rock-Climbing in Skye. London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1908.


£350


First edition. 8vo. pp. xxi , 330, [1, ad.]; frontis. and 30 collotype plates, 9 line diagrams, one folding map in rear pocket; some foxing, else very good in the original cloth, gilt, very slightly rubbed.


Neate A01; Perret 0002. Ashley Abraham (1876-1951), with his brother George (1872-1965) and Owen Jones (1867-99), made important climbs in the English Lake District, Wales, and Scotland. Each published a record of their climbs in these several areas, of which this is the third (see previous item and item 60).


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3. Abraham, George D. On Alpine Heights and British Crags. London: Methuen & Co. Ltd., 1919.


First edition. 8vo. pp. x, 307; 24 b & w photo. illusts.; previous owner’s bookplates, minor spotting to fore-edge, else near-fine in the original cloth, gilt.


Neate A07; Perret 0008. Abraham recollects experiences during climbs in the Alps, the Dolomites, and in Britain (Skye, Wales, the Lakes)


1 £50


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4. Aeby, Christoph, von Fellenberg, Edmund, & Gerwer, Rudolf. Das Hochgebirge von Grindelwald. Naturbilder aus der Schweizerischen Alpenwelt. Coblenz: Karl Baedeker, 1865.


£750


First edition. 8vo. pp. lxv, 150, [1, index]; folding coloured litho. panorama frontis. of the mountains of Grindelwald, three tinted lithos., one folding map, illusts. to text; mild foxing to margins of plates, else very good in contemporary quarter cloth with papered boards, original pictorial wrapper mounted to front board, minor wear to spine and extremities. Bookplate of Frederick Gardiner.


Wäber I.142; Perret 1603. Christoph Aeby (1835-85) was a Swiss anatomist, and an enthusiastic climber. This volume records his ascents of the Wetterhorn, Schreckhorn, Eiger, and other peaks with von Fellenberg and Gerwer. These three peaks feature in the illustrations, and the particularly fine frontispiece shows the mountains of Grindelwald. This copy bears the bookplate of Frederick Gardiner, probably the Alpine Club member who made a series of successful climbs in the 1870s and 1880s, including the first guideless ascent of the Jungfrau.


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