alps end end von conway sir william martin (22 Ergebnisse)

hardcover. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. Illustrated by McCormick, A. D. The front fly-leaf is stuck to the paste-down Posted within 1 working day. 1st class tracked post to the UK, Airmail with tracking worldwide. Robust recyclable packaging. Picture is the actual item.

hardcover. No date. 381pp, original red cloth, sunning to spine, light foreedge foxing, VG, no dustwrapper. A famous high level traverse of the Alps in 1894, from Monte Viso to the Gross Glockner. Glacier Books are experienced and professional booksellers. We take pride in offering carefully described books and excellent customer service.

hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. First Edition. A clean, tight copy. Minor wear and tanning. Previous owner signature. Black and white images throughout. Clothbound in red. ALL ITEMS ARE DISPATCHED FROM THE UK WITHIN 48 HOURS ( BOOKS ORDERED OVER THE WEEKEND DISPATCHED ON MONDAY) ALL OVERSEAS ORDERS SENT BY TRACKABLE AIR MAIL. IF YOU ARE LOCATED OUTSIDE THE UK PLEASE ASK US FOR A POSTAGE QUOTE FOR MULTI VOLUME SETS BEFORE ORDERING.

Cloth. Zustand: Good+. No Jacket. A.D. Mc'Cormick (illustrator). Third Edition. Publisher's thick, green cloth boards with contrasting spine cloth. Covers partially bit faded, rear board slty marked, top and tail spine bit frayed. Rear inner end paper joint split but holding. One section bit started. Occasional slt text foxing. Early signature on end paper. A better copy of this heavy and thus prone to damage book than is usually found. Collates thus: xii, 403, [1]pp, frontis, vignette t.p., 100 plates, one of which, being two similar views, was not listed in error. The SUPERIOR, FULLER, third edition, which was followed by cheaper, truncated ones.

Zustand: V.g. No Jacket. Nelson Library edition. V.g., t.e.g., gilt lettering on spine, impressed design on boards. Narrative of a long mountain traverse, packed with incident, "from end to end", undertaken mainly in 1894.Photographic frontispiece, 381 pp. excluding colophon and (2) pp. of publisher's advertisements at end. Weight: 1 Language: English Hard covers, no d.w. (as issued).

Cloth. A.D. M'Cormick (illustrator). First Edition. First Edition hardback Bound in the publishers original dark green cloth with printed pictorial of a mountain to the front The cloth has darkened slightly especailly to the spine The spine has a closed tear along the top edge and a score mark to the lower half Internally the text block is tight and the pages despite the occasional spot of foxing are clean throughout With 16 full page illustraions by AD MCormick and a chapter by the Rev WAB Coolidge pp vi 300 Overall a good copynbsp. book.

hardcover. 1905 reprint. 300pp, original decorative cloth, attractive image to front board, private bookplate, light foxing to foreedges, occasional light foxing, VG+. An attractive reprint of this title. A famous high level traverse of the Alps in 1894, from Monte Viso to the Gross Glockner. Glacier Books are experienced and professional booksellers. We take pride in offering carefully described books and excellent customer service.

Hard Cover. Zustand: VG. Reprint. nd. [1910] 16mo. original blue cloth gilt, t.e.g. (upper hinge tender, a few leaves creased, edges of cloth slightly rubbed, endpapers a trifle offset, otherwise clean); pp. 382 (last colophon), [2 (pubs. advts.)], with illustrations. A very good copy. [Neate C101: A famous high level traverse of the Alps in 1894, from Monte Viso to the Gross Glockner].

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. vii + 300pp, 16 fine illustrations, 8vo, bound in red grained prize morocco, gilt lined boards, gilt crest of King's School, Shrewsbury on front board, gilt lettering, all edges gilt, Provanance: with prize label to Leonardo Stamp 1926, very good condition, Archibald Constable and Co. Ltd., London, 1905.

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.

Hard Cover. Zustand: F-. Reprint. 8vo. original green pictorial cloth gilt, uncut (cloth a trifle rubbed with an occ. mark, top edge a little dusty, offsetting to endpapers, occ. spotting, mostly to leaf edges & prelims., else clean & bright throughout); pp. viii (last blank), 30, with 16 illustrations. A nice copy, near fine. [Neate C101: A famous high level traverse of the Alps in 1894, from Monte Viso to the Gross Glockner].

Hard Cover. Zustand: VG. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: VG. Reprint. VG/VG. nd. [1916] 12mo. original red cloth gilt (top edge dusty, cloth a little watermarked, prev. ownership details to FFE, otherwise clean) in dustwrapper with tipped on photograph (a bit stained & watermarked, mild wear to extremities (reinforced on reverse), rems. of two labels); pp. 382 (last colophon), [2 (pubs. advts.)], with illustrations. A very good copy in dustwrapper, uncommon for its age. [Neate C101: A famous high level traverse of the Alps in 1894, from Monte Viso to the Gross Glockner].

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. 1st Edition. First edition. 8vo. pp. xii, 403; frontis., title-page vignette and 98 plates after originals by A. D. McCormick; bookplate of Harold A. Beeching, minor foxing at front and rear, very good in the original two-tone cloth, gilt, slightly faded to spine and along upper margin of boards. In 1904 Conway traversed the length of the Alps, from the Mediterranean to the Austrian Alps, accompanied throughout by two Gurkha soldiers who had returned with Conway from his Karakoram expedition of 1892. The party was also joined at various points by E. A. FitzGerald, who brought with him two guides including Louis Carrel, and Mattias Zurbriggen, who had also participated in the Karakoram expedition.

3rd Ed. Large 8vo. xii + 403pp. 100 ills. by A.D. McCormick. Some light browning, original brown cloth backed green cloth boards, some light marking, spine sl. chipped. Neate C100. 'General description of the Alps and Alpine life.' US$58.

8vo., Third Edition, with frontispiece (original tissue guard present), title in red and black, title-vignette, and 99 full-page plates, endpapers mildly browned; original green ribbed cloth, upper board lettered in gilt, brown cloth back lettered in gilt, uncut, hinges tender (but binding wholly sound), boards mildly faded else a bright, clean copy. With the engraved armorial bookplate of John Francis Leigh Clare on front paste-down, and his holograph signature on front free endpaper. Published in the same year as the first edition. Clare was son to John Leigh Clare, merchant and art collector, of Toxteth Old Hall, Liverpool. Neate *176.

hardcover. 1895 3rd Edition. 403pp, 100 illustrations by A.D.McCormick, reprinted 3 times in year of first publication 1895, professionally recased, strong attractive copy, VG. A famous high level traverse of the Alps in 1894, from Monte Viso to the Gross Glockner. Glacier Books are experienced and professional booksellers. We take pride in offering carefully described books and excellent customer service.

Hard Cover. Zustand: G+. Second Edition. 8vo. original quarter brown buckram gilt, teg (spine slanted, binding rubbed with a little wear to extremities, cloth slightly sunned, hinges starting, a little scattered spotting, prev. owner's name to verso half-title, else internally clean); pp. xii, 404 (last blank), with 100 illustrations. Heavy item (2 kg), additional postage may be required for international delivery. A good copy. [Neate C101: A famous high level traverse of the Alps in 1894, from Monte Viso to the Gross Glockner].

Hard Cover. Zustand: VG. First Edition. 8vo. original quarter brown buckram gilt, teg (top edge of cloth a little sunned, slight wear to tips of corners, upper hinge cracked, bookplate to front pastedown, scattered spotting, mostly to leaf edges & prelims., otherwise quite clean); pp. xii, 404 (last blank), with 100 illustrations. Heavy item (1.75 kg), additional postage may be required for international delivery. A very good copy. [Neate C101: A famous high level traverse of the Alps in 1894, from Monte Viso to the Gross Glockner].

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. 2nd Edition. 2nd ed. 8vo. xii, 403pp. 100 plates. Original cloth, slightly worn, ex-libris put on front end-paper, numbered seal put on rear end-paper.

Third edition, 8vo (25 x 17 cms), vii 300pp., frontispiece and 100 full page illustrations by A.D. McCormick, slight foxing to the preliminary pages; publisher's red cloth gilt, corners slightly bumped; overall a good firm copy. A fascinating account of a summer journey of three months through the high level Alps from west to east. Neate C101; Perret 1087.

8vo, 20cm, viii,300,p., frontis, 52 plate illustrations, index, prize binding in half dark crimson calf, raised bands, gilt title, light beige pink fine linen boards with gilt school crest, marbled endpapers and matched endpapers, some slight wrinkling of the cover cloth, school presentation label on the front paste down endpaper, Signed Binding, "Welfe Brothers Limited, London", a very good sound copy. (tr). Neate 176. A classic book of Alpine mountaineering based on Lord Conway's "scamper through the Alps in 1894"first printed in 1895. Coolidge's contribution is one chapter entitled A Run Through the Western and Central Alps.

Zustand: VG. Westminster 1895 Constable. Hardcover, Octavo, 103pp., 100 full page illustrations by A. D. McCormick, brown cloth spine and green cloth on boards. Top edge gilt. Gilt lettering. VG, light foxing on end papers. In new glassine cover.