First editions & rare mountaineering books

[HEDIN, Sven]

Southern Tibet: 1916-22

£18,000

First and only edition. "Hedin's travels [drew] him increasingly into what Lord Curzon regarded as the British sphere of interest, and a well-orchestrated effort was set in motion to...

9 text volumes in quarto, folio volume of panoramas, and 2 folio portfolios of maps, together with quarto prospectus, 13 volumes in all. Original printed card wraps,... Read more

HUNT, John .

The Ascent of Everest. 1953

£2,000

First edition, first impression. This copy signed on the front free endpaper by Hunt and Hillary, together with 7 other members of the team; George Lowe, who had attempted Cho Oyu...

Octavo. Original mid-blue cloth matching blue top-stain, title gilt to spine. In the dust jacket. Coloured frontispiece and 7 other coloured plates, 48 black and... Read more

Mountaineering and Exploration in the Japanese Alps.

WESTON, William.

Mountaineering and Exploration in the Japanese Alps. 1896

£1,250

First edition. A founding text of Alpinism in Japan. Weston had already climbed extensively in the Alps when he began to work for the Church Missionary Society at Kumamoto, Japan in...

Octavo. Original aqua cloth, title gilt to the spine, device of the Tomoe-ko - the Japanese Pilgrim Mountaineers - in colours to the upper board. 27 plates,... Read more

Norway and its Glaciers visited in 1851;

FORBES, James D.

Norway and its Glaciers visited in 1851; 1853

£700

First edition. "Forbes spans the era from de Saussere to Alfred Wills and his books are the first English accounts of systematic Alpine exploration and description of various...

Large octavo ( 253 × 167 mm). Original tan embossed cloth, title gilt to spine. Coloured lithographic frontispiece and 9 other similar plates, attractive... Read more

RIEFENSTAHL, Leni.

Kampf in Schnee und Eis. 1933

£500

First edition, first impression. Loosely inserted vintage photo-card with Riefenstahl's later signed greeting. A very nice copy of the author's first book, an account of her...

Octavo, original ecru rough cloth, decoration and titles to upper board and spine in maroon, green top-stain. Numerous plates, many from the author's photographs.... Read more

RUTTLEDGE, Hugh.

Everest 1933. 1934

£425

First edition of Ruttledge's account of the 1933 British attempt to climb Mount Everest, which he led. Nine years had passed since the last expedition, on which Mallory and Irvine...

Crown octavo. Original blue cloth, titles gilt to spine. With the striking pictorial dust jacket. With fifty photographic illustrations, three diagrams in the text,... Read more

HEIM, Arnold & August Gansser.

The Throne of the Gods. 1939

£375

First edition in English following the German first of the previous year. "Account of the first Swiss expedition to Kumaon Himalayas of 1936, led by the author. The object of the...

Octavo. Original green cloth, title gilt to spine, top edge gilt. In the dust jacket. 122 plates, one being a folding photographic double panorama, another being a... Read more

WHEELER, Arthur Oliver.

The Selkirk Range. 1905

£350

First edition. Wheeler was born in Kilkenny, and emigrated to Canada with his family in 1876. He served an apprenticeship as a Dominion Land Surveyor with Rvley and Hamilton, and...

2 volumes, text volume and map-case, octavo. Original plum cloth, title gilt to spine and to the upper board, together with the Canadian arms. Portrait frontispiece... Read more

Buddhists and Glaciers of Western Tibet.

DAINELLI, Giotto.

Buddhists and Glaciers of Western Tibet. 1933

£300

First edition in English, first published in Italian the previous year. "This volume describes, in diary form, a one-man journey in 1930. [Dainelli] travelled by Kashmir, Baltistan,...

Octavo. Original grey-blue cloth, lettered in dark blue on the spine. With the dust jacket. Frontispiece and 31 other plates, double-page map at the rear. Corners... Read more

YOUNGHUSBAND, Sir Francis.

Everest: The Challenge. 1936

£275

First edition, first impression. An intriguing character, Younghusband (1863–1942) was an explorer and imperialist whose later years were spent promoting various mystical...

Octavo. Original green cloth, titles to spine gilt, map endpapers, green top-stain. With the dust jacket. Frontispiece and 15 plates, 3 maps. Faint spotting to front... Read more

GAVRILIUK, Aleksandr & Viktor Jarosenko.

Pamir. 1987

£195

First edition. Excellent historical photographic survey of Russian possessions in the Pamirs, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan.

Quarto. Original blue cloth lettered in purple on the spine and upper board. In the dust jacket. Profusely illustrated in colour and black and white. Jacket just a... Read more

HERZOG, Maurice & Marcel Ichac.

Regards vers l'Annapurna. 1951

£175

Second edition, same year as the first. Photographic account of the first successful ascent of an eight-thousander, a peak over 8000 metres. This copy inscribed by Herzog on the...

Octavo. Original card wraps. With the dust jacket. Profusely illustrated in colour and green-tinted photogravures, loosely inserted map. The jacket a little rubbed,... Read more

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