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Auction No 402, Category: Travel

10 Lots (displaying 1 - 10)

Younghusband "The Heart of a Continent", 1904, VG; Freshfield "Round Kangchenjunga", 1903, 1st Edn, spine badly damaged, VG internally;

Lot: 75

  • Auction Date: Wed 21st Jul 2021 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £50 - £60
SOLD £30
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Younghusband The Heart of a Continent, 1904, VG; Freshfield Round Kangchenjunga, 1903, 1st Edn, spine badly damaged, VG internally; Murray The Scottish Himalayan Expedition, 1951, VG; Anderson High Mountains & Cold Seas: a biography of H.W. Tilman, 1980 in VG d/jkt; and three other Himalayan related. Mixed condition. (7)

Thomas Pennant "A Tour in Scotland, and Voyage to the Hebrides, MDCCLXXII". Printed by John Monk, Chester, 1774;

Lot: 80

  • Auction Date: Wed 21st Jul 2021 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £50 - £60
SOLD £40
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Thomas Pennant A Tour in Scotland, and Voyage to the Hebrides, MDCCLXXII. Printed by John Monk, Chester, 1774; quarto, 19th C. half-leather, gilt, rubbed & faded; bookplate of C.A.Briggs; engraved title as frontispiece and 44 other plates, several folding; VG internally; (1),viii,379,(1)pp

Andrew Crombie Ramsay "The Geology of the Island of Arran, from Original Survey", Richard Griffin, 1841; contemp. patterned cloth, gilt;

Lot: 81

  • Auction Date: Wed 21st Jul 2021 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £60 - £80
SOLD £58
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Andrew Crombie Ramsay The Geology of the Island of Arran, from Original Survey, Richard Griffin, 1841; contemp. patterned cloth, gilt; tape repairs to spine and front inner hinge; hand-coloured map & geological section as frontispieces; wood-engravings; clean text & map. Scarce

Harold Raeburn "Mountaineering Art", Fisher Unwin, 1920, 1st Edn., spine near-detached, VG internally; Dorothy Pilley "Climbing Days", 1935,

Lot: 82

  • Auction Date: Wed 21st Jul 2021 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £30 - £40
UNSOLD
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Harold Raeburn Mountaineering Art, Fisher Unwin, 1920, 1st Edn., spine near-detached, VG internally; Dorothy Pilley Climbing Days, 1935, 1st Edn; and five related titles. Mixed condition. (7)

Collection of A. & C. Black ‘Peeps At Many Lands’ series including Sidgwick "Germany" 1909, 1st Edn; Johnston "China" 1929 in d/jkt;

Lot: 84

  • Auction Date: Wed 21st Jul 2021 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £60 - £80
SOLD £74
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Collection of A. & C. Black ‘Peeps At Many Lands' series including Sidgwick Germany 1909, 1st Edn; Johnston China 1929 in d/jkt; Scheltema Java 1926 in d/jkt; Liddle and Thomson Sweden and Finland 1921,1st Edn; Baikie Ancient Rome, 1917, 1st Edn; Baikie Ancient Greece, 1920, 1st Edn (2, in variant bindings); and other better. All complete with the colour plates, 13 with ownership signatures, some with occasional fox marks. Fair to fine. (21)   

A. & C. Black ‘Popular Series’ 1922-32, most with 32 colour plates ("Edinburgh" has 16, "Austria" 24), including three with d/jkts;

Lot: 85

  • Auction Date: Wed 21st Jul 2021 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £30 - £40
SOLD £46
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A. & C. Black ‘Popular Series' 1922-32, most with 32 colour plates (Edinburgh has 16, Austria 24), including three with d/jkts; mostly good to fine but Dalmatia is poor. Six with ownership inscriptions. (12)

Richard Curle "Into the East: Notes on Burma and Malaya", Macmillan, March 1923, First Edn., one of 125 large-paper copies on hand-made paper,

Lot: 90

  • Auction Date: Wed 21st Jul 2021 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £50 - £60
SOLD £34
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Richard Curle Into the East: Notes on Burma and Malaya, Macmillan, March 1923, First Edn., one of 125 large-paper copies on hand-made paper, fine, in a near-fine quarter buckram binding over plain boards, printed title label. Uncut two sides, browning to endpapers and spotting to foredge; xxi,224p

Thomas Wardle "Kashmir: Its New Silk Industry, with some Account of its Natural History, Geology, Sport, etc". London & Leek, 1904;

Lot: 91

  • Auction Date: Wed 21st Jul 2021 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £40 - £50
SOLD £40
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Thomas Wardle Kashmir: Its New Silk Industry, with some Account of its Natural History, Geology, Sport, etc. London & Leek, 1904; original gilt cloth, recased and hinges strengthened; front pastedown partly cut away for inscription “from Sir Thomas Wardle 1904”. Several handstamps of Leek Occupational Club. Few lines of text underlined in pencil o/w VG internally with all photo-plates. Uncut two sides; 10 plates at rear damp-stained.

Frederick Macdonald "Bishop Stirling of the Falklands", Seeley, Service & Co.,1929, 1st Edn, original gilt cloth, spine faded;

Lot: 92

  • Auction Date: Wed 21st Jul 2021 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £50 - £70
SOLD £36
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Frederick Macdonald Bishop Stirling of the Falklands, Seeley, Service & Co., 1929, 1st Edn, original gilt cloth, spine faded; spotting to prelims o/w fine internally with all plates & map of the Falkland Is. 255pp             

Baedeker's Guide Books for "Berlin and its Environs", 1912, near-fine; "Belgium and Holland", 1905, VG; "Northern Germany" (3),

Lot: 94

  • Auction Date: Wed 21st Jul 2021 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £30 - £40
SOLD £12
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Baedeker's Guide Books for Berlin and its Environs, 1912, near-fine; Belgium and Holland, 1905, VG; Northern Germany (3), the editions for 1897 (lacking front endpaper), and 1925 (2, VG); Russia, 1971 reprint, ex-library; Southern Germany, 1914, near fine; and Austria 1900 (lacking front endpaper, half-title torn). All with the maps complete. (8)