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  • Collection of Photographs of the Caucasus].

    [DE DECHY, Maurice.
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    A fine group of photographs which capture the Northern side of the Caucasus, from the Black Sea in the West to Dagestan in the East. Maurice de Dé...

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  • Climbing and Exploration in The Karakoram-Himalayas.

    CONWAY, William Martin.
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    Rare limited edition. A fine set of the deluxe edition of a Himalayan classic, complete with all four volumes.Conway (1856–1937) developed a taste ...

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  • Karakoram and Western Himalaya 1909.

    FILIPPI, Filippo de.
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    Deluxe edition bound in vellum - presentation copy. the rare vellum bound deluxe edition. The full account of the Duke of Abruzzi's expedition to K...

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  • Climbing Reminiscences of the Dolomites.

    SINIGAGLIA, Leone.
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    Deluxe edition on japan paper. The very rare deluxe edition on Japan Paper, one of only 30 copies. Sinigaglia was the first great Italian climber i...

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  • Travels in the Himalayan provinces of Hindustan and the Panjab;

    MOORCROFT, William; TREBECK, George.
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    Scarce. Moorcroft's narrative traces the journey of the author and Trebeck from Bareilly to Bokhara in the years 1819 to 1825. En route to Bokhara...

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  • The exploration of the Caucasus.

    FRESHFIELD, Douglas W.
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    Large paper copy - one of 100. One of the finest books on the Caucasus. Freshfield was a former President of the Alpine Club and an honorary secret...

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  • The Karakorams and Kashmir

    ECKENSTEIN, Oscar.
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    Scarce personal reminiscences of Conway's 1892 Karakoram expedition.Eckenstein (1859 – 1921), was a member of the expedition led by Sir Martin Con...

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  • Travels through the Rhætian Alps,

    ALBANIS BEAUMONT, Jean François.
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    'Jean François Albanis Beaumont, (1755–1812), engraver and landscape painter, may have been a son of, or related to, the Piedmontese artist Claudi...

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  • Nanda Devi.

    SHIPTON, E[ric].
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    With dust-wrapper. Shipton was a natural choice for the Mount Everest expedition of 1933 on which he reached 27,900 feet, but the experience of tho...

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  • Travels, comprising observations made during a residence in the Tarentaise,

    BAKEWELL, Robert.
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    The account of a lengthy tour made by the geologist Bakewell (1767-1843), accompanied by his second wife. The work contains an early description i...

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  • Osenee voskhozhdenie na Mkinvartsveri (vershinu Kazbeka) 9 noiabria 1927

    [CAUCASUS]. Асланишвили, Иосиф Антонович [ASLANISHVILI, I.A.].
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    Fine example of the first-hand account of the expedition to the peak of the mount Kazbek undertaken in November 1927 by a group of eleven mountain...

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  • Scrambles amongst the Alps in the Years 1860-69.

    WHYMPER, Edward.
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    This landmark of mountaineering literature is considered by many to be the most famous mountain travel book of the period, by the most famous moun...

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  • Annapurna

    HERZOG, Maurice.
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    Inscribed by author. Herzog (1919-2012) was a French mountaineer who led this remarkable ascent of Annapurna, one of the highest mountains in the w...

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  • The life of Horace Benedict de Saussure.

    FRESHFIELD, Douglas W.
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    Inscribed copy. The standard biography of the great Alpine mountaineer, Saussure, by another outstanding mountaineer.Inscribed and dated by the aut...

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  • The Oberland and its glaciers:

    GEORGE, H[ereford]B[rooke]; EDWARDS, Ernst (photographer).
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    A fine example of this extremely beautiful and important work on the Swiss Alps and its Glaciers. It is one of the earliest of its kind to be illu...

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  • Coronation Everest.

    MORRIS, James.
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    Signed by Edmund Hillary. The author James (later Jan) Morris was the 'anonymous' Times special correspondent who had joined the successful Everest...

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  • Scrambles Amongst the Alps in the Years 1860-69.

    WHYMPER, Edward.
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    Whymper, a leading figure in Alpine mountaineering, narrates in this volume details of his many brilliant climbs including the tragic account of h...

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  • The Kilima-Njaro Expedition.

    JOHNSTON, Harry Hamilton.
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    Johnston was invited in 1884 on behalf of the Royal Society to undertake a scientific mission to explore Mount Kilimanjaro and its surroundings. T...

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  • Annapurna

    HERZOG, Maurice.
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    Herzog (1919-2012) was a French mountaineer who led this remarkable ascent of Annapurna, one of the highest mountains in the world. This French e...

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  • In the High Himalayas.

    WHISTLER, Hugh.
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    Whistler, a fellow of the Zoological Society and a serving member of the Indian (Imperial) police, spent much of his leave in the Himalayas north ...

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  • Views in India,

    WHITE, George Francis.
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    Well illustrated account of White's tours in the direction of Mussoore, Simla, the sources of the Jumna and Ganges, etc.Second edition. 4to, x, 84...

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  • Everest: the Unfinished Adventure.

    RUTTLEDGE, Hugh.
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    Presentation copy of Ruttledge's account of the 1935 and 1936 unsuccessful expeditions to Mount Everest.First edition. 8vo, xvi, 295 pp., 63 black...

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  • Thron der Götter [The Throne of the Gods].

    HEIM, Arnold & GANSSER, August.
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    Presentation copy. A 'superbly illustrated' scientific work, containing an account of the first Swiss expedition to the Kumaon Himalayas led by th...

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  • An Unexplored Pass.

    FEATHERSTONE, B[alford] K[inchant].
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    This scarce volume narrates an attempt to cross the Muztagh Pass in 1922. Capt. Featherstone was the only European member of the expedition which...

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