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10. Benson, Claude E. British Mountaineering. London: George Routledge & Sons, Limited, 1909.


£75


First edition. 8vo. pp. xi, 224, [4, ads.]; illusts.; minor spotting to endpapers, else near-fine in the original pictorial cloth, gilt.


Neate B86i; Perret 0378. A popular and influential guidebook.


11. Bonney, T. G. The Alpine Regions of Switzerland and the Neighbouring Countries; A Pedestrian’s Notes on their Physical Features, Scenery, and Natural History. Cambridge: Deighton, Bell, and Co.; London: Bell and Daldy, 1868.


£350 6 - 7 - 8 - 9


8. Ball, John. Ball’s Alpine Guides. Central Tyrol including the Gross Glockner. London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1878.


£95


New edition. 8vo. pp. [ii], 139-314, [1, ad.]; 2 folding maps, one folding panorama, key map front endpapers; embrowning to free endpapers, else near-fine in the original cloth, gilt.


Neate B21; Perret 0236; cf. Moss et al. AL012 (this reprint not listed). A reprint of the 1873 edition in this series.


9. Ball, John. Hints and Notes practical and scientific for Travellers in the Alps. Being a revision of the General Introduction to the ‘Alpine Guide’. A new edition prepared on behalf of the Alpine Club by W. A. B. Coolidge. London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1899.


£95


First edition thus. 8vo. pp. clxiv, [3, ads.]; very good in the original printed boards, bumped to head and tail of spine.


Neate B24; Perret 1108; Moss et al. AL034. The 1863 edition of Ball’s A Guide to the Western Alps, the first of the Alpine Guides that appeared under his name, contained a long introduction with general hints and notes for climbers. In 1864 it was published separately as Introduction to the Alpine Guide. In the 1890s, W. A. B. Coolidge undertook a revision of the Ball guides for the Alpine Club, and heavily revised the Introduction, which was published in the present form, now uncommon.


First edition. 8vo. pp. xvi, errata slip, 351, [1], 12 (pubs. ads.); 5 wood- eng. plates, illusts. to text; a little shaken in the original cloth, gilt, rubbed. A presentation copy, inscribed to the flyleaf “M. T. Smith from her affectionate Nephew T. G. Bonney Christmas 1868”.


Wäber 1.92; Neate B136; Perret 0579. The geologist Thomas George Bonney (1833-1923) was “a considerable alpine climber” (ODNB), and became president of the Alpine Club in 1881. The present work offers a general account of the Alps, based on Bonney’s own travels and theories.


12. Bonney, T. G. Ice-Work Present and Past. London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner, & Co. Ltd., 1903.


£25


Second impression [1st edition 1896]. 8vo. pp. [4, advertisements], xiv, 295; frontis., illusts. to text, 4 folding maps; very good in the original cloth, gilt, ex-lib. University of Cambridge with bookplate to front pastedown and signs of label to foot of spine.


The International Scientific Series vol. 78. A treatise on glacial geology, with discussion of Alpine glaciers, and of the Arctic and Antarctic ice.


13. Bonney, T. G. The Building of the Alps. London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1913.


£25


Second impression [1st ed. 1912]. 8vo. pp. 384; 32 plates, illusts.; some foxing throughout, good in the original cloth, gilt, bumped to upper outer corner of front board.


Neate B137; Perret 0581. A popular introduction to the geology of the Alps. 3


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