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Lot 251
Sale 625 - Adventure & Exploration Library of Steve Fossett
Mar 15, 2019
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[MOUNTAINEERING]. A group of 6 works, comprising:
RAMOND DE CARBONNIERES, Baron Louis-Ferdinand E. Travels in the Pyrenees: Containing a Description of the Principal Summits, Passes and Vallies. Translated from the French by F. Gold. London: Longmans, 1813. 8vo. Original half calf gilt. FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH. Rare. -- OLIVER, William Dudley. Crags and Craters. Rambles in the Island of Reunion. London: Longmans, Green, 1896. 8vo. Photogravure frontispiece, folding map, numerous half-tones from photos. -- GRIBBLE, Francis (1864-1946).The Early Mountaineers. London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1899. 8vo. Numerous plates. -- ABRAHAM, Ashley Perry (1876-1951). Rock-Climbing in Skye. London: Longmans, Green, 1908. 8vo. Folding map in rear cover pocket, numerous collotype plates and in-text diagrams. -- TURNER, Samuel (1869-1929). My Climbing Adventures in Four Continents. London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1911. Numerous photographic plates. -- BENSON, Claude E. (1863-1934). Mountaineering Ventures. London: T.C. & E.C. Jack, [1928]. 8vo. Numerous photographic plates. -- All FIRST EDITIONS except where indicated, all in original publishers cloth except where indicated, condition generally good.


