conway sir william martin 1856 1937 (6 Ergebnisse)

First Edition. Very good paperback copy; edges somewhat slightly dust-dulled and nicked. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description; 19 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 25 cm. Subjects; Jura Mountains (France and Switzerland) Description and travel. 1 Kg.

Facsimile Edition. Very good copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Spine bands and panel edges somewhat rubbed and dust-toned as with age. Remains quite well-preserved overall: tight, bright, clean and strong. Fine facsimile reprint. Physical description; xvii, 2 unnumbered pages, 359 pages, 1 unnumbered page ; 23 cm. Subjects; Wood-engravers. Block books. 1 Kg.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. M'Cormick AD (illustrator). First Edition. In brown quarter buckram over finger soiled, green cloth boards, gilt tooling & titles, edges rubbed a little. Spine, gilt titles. Internally, half title, tissue guarded frontis, tp in red & black inks with B&W vignette, [7], (viii-xii), [1], 2-403 pp, 98 plates + frontis & title vignette, B&W, most full page, t.e.g., some very light offsetting & spotting to prelims, t.e.g. A very pleasing copy. Contains the famous high-level traverse from Monte Viso to the Gross Glockner. (237*165 mm). (Neate *176. Alpine Club Library catalogue p73). Conway, (William) Martin, Baron Conway of Allington, art historian and mountaineer, who in 1892 led a large-scale mountaineering expedition to the Karakoram Himalayas. Conway's large party surveyed the Baltoro glacier and the region around K2, and ascended Pioneer Peak on Baltoro Kangri, which at 6890 meters may have constituted an altitude record at the time. See ODNB for a full Bio.

First Edition. Very good paperback copy; edges somewhat slightly dust-dulled and nicked. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Minor library marks remain internally. Physical description; 35 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. Subject; Alps Description and travel. 1 Kg.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. McCORMICK A.D. (illustrator). Rebound in brown cloth, corners bumped, silver titles to spine. Internally, half title, frontis, [8], 9-709 pp, [1], [1] adverts, 300 illustrations (B&W, many full page) 1 large folding map (short fold tear repaired), new endpapers, frontis tissue guard torn with loss, subscribers note tipped in, ink name to half title (Arthur ? Thomas 1896), edge of frontis chipped with loss, probably rebound by previous owner c1990. (235*160 mm). (Neate *175. Alpine Club Lib Cat p73).

8vo. pp. 6 p.l., 371. with half-title. 2 folding coloured maps, 8 colour plates reproduced from sketches by H.E.Conway, & c100 plates & text illus. from photographs & sketches. A very good copy in original two-tone cloth, top edge gilt, others uncut (spine bit spotted, occasional light foxing). armorial bookplate of Heber Mardon [1840-1896], one of the founders of the Bristol printing firm Mardon and Son. First Edition of this account of the author's exploration of the interior of West Spitsbergen in 1896. In all Conway together with his companions Gregory, Trevor-Battye and Garwood made thirteen mountain ascents including one of Mt. Hedgehog, conducted boat expeditions in most fjords, compiled a survey sketch of approximately 600 square miles of central West Spitsbergen, almost completed a circumnavigation of the main island, and gathered valuable geologic and natural history specimens. Arctic Bib. 3378. Neate 177.