LOT 3599
13th December 2022
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LOT 3599
MOUNTAINEERING. - Alfred WILLS. Wanderings Among the High Alps. London: Richard Bentley, 1856. First edition, 8vo (189 x 115mm.) 4 sepia-tinted lithographed plates. (Toning.) Contemporary green morocco over marbled paper-covered boards, red morocco lettering piece to the spine (surface rubbing and to extremities, upper joint splitting). Note: Jill Neate says of Wills that 'while his ascent of the Wetterhorn was not particularly momentous, it is customarily accepted as ushering in the 'Golden Age' of mountaineering'. Provenance: Richard Barrington (name-plate to the front pastedown). [Neate, W94.] - And a further nine volumes related to mountaineering (including William Brockedon's 'Journals of Excursions in the Alps', 1833, 8vo, and the first U.K. edition of Hudson Stuck's 'The Ascent of Denali (Mount McKinley)', 1914, 8vo) (10).
Hammer price: £200
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