POSTCARD ALBUM. 200 postcards with 125 in colour and 75 in b/w. N.d. c.[1930s].
Enclosed in album, some minor marginal browning to leaves, gilt lettered buckram, some minor soiling and rubbing.
Including 33 coloured cards of Alexandria, 21 coloured of Tunis, 2 coloured of Bethlehem, 9 coloured of Jaffa, 6 coloured of Beirut, 10 coloured of Malta, 22 of France including 10 in colour, 42 UK including 5 in colour, 18 coloured of Royalty, 12 of London Zoo including 6 in colour, etc.
£75.00 [ref: 271110]
1st Ed. x + 778pp. + 9pp. Many plates and maps including some folding. Some light browning, last leaf torn, original gilt lettered teracotta cloth with gilt vignette to upper board, spine very sl. bumped.
From the Library of William Allsup (1890-1969). Climber, Mountaineer, founder member of the Himalayan Club of which he became Vice-President in 1943. Howard Somervell penned obituaries of him in the Fell & Rock Climbing Journal and Alpine Journal.
Articles include Three Weeks camping-out in Andes by W. Larden, Dr Longstaff’s Expedition to the Karakoram, The expedition to the Karakoram Himalayas of H.R.H. the Duke of Abruzzi, etc.
£20.00 [ref: 280386]
1st Ed. [Lacking all before text]. Numerous plates and maps including several folding and colour. Pencil annotations, some light browning, original upper wrapps. bound in at rear, rebound in navy cloth, sl. rubbed gilt lettering to spine.
From the Library of William Allsup (1890-1969). Climber, Mountaineer, founder member of the Himalayan Club of which he became Vice-President in 1943. Howard Somervell penned obituaries of him in the Fell & Rock Climbing Journal and Alpine Journal.
Articles include A Few Days on Matterhorn by Arnold Lunn, In the Dolomites with an Orientalist by J.B. Joyce, Indian Leave by Basil Goodfellow, etc.
£10.00 [ref: 280495]
1st Ed. [Lacking all before text]. Numerous plates and maps including several folding and colour. Pencil annotations, some light browning, original upper wrapps. bound in at rear, rebound in navy cloth, sl. rubbed gilt lettering to spine.
From the Library of William Allsup (1890-1969). Climber, Mountaineer, founder member of the Himalayan Club of which he became Vice-President in 1943. Howard Somervell penned obituaries of him in the Fell & Rock Climbing Journal and Alpine Journal.
Articles include A Polish Ascent of the East Face of Mount Stanley Ruwenzori by R.M. Bere, A Traverse of the Matterhorn by William Bellows, etc.
£10.00 [ref: 280493]
1st Ed. [Lacking all before text]. Numerous plates and maps including several folding and colour. Pencil annotations, some light browning, original upper wrapps. bound in at rear, rebound in navy cloth, sl. rubbed gilt lettering to spine.
From the Library of William Allsup (1890-1969). Climber, Mountaineer, founder member of the Himalayan Club of which he became Vice-President in 1943. Howard Somervell penned obituaries of him in the Fell & Rock Climbing Journal and Alpine Journal.
Articles include Early Lady Climbers by Claire-Eliane Engel, The Ascent of Jebel Kassala by R.A. Hodgkin, Zaghouan by Verey Light by H.W. Tilman, Aspects of Mountaineering in the High Arctic by N.E. Odell, etc.
£10.00 [ref: 280491]
1st Ed. [viii] + iii + 277pp. + [xvi] + pp.(278-454). [Lacking all before text]. Numerous plates and maps including some folding and several colour. Pencil annotations, some light browning, original upper wrapps. bound in at rear, rebound in navy cloth, sl. rubbed gilt lettering to spine.
From the Library of William Allsup (1890-1969). Climber, Mountaineer, founder member of the Himalayan Club of which he became Vice-President in 1943. Howard Somervell penned obituaries of him in the Fell & Rock Climbing Journal and Alpine Journal.
Articles include Lessons from the Mount Everest Expedition of 1933 by T.G. Longstaff, Everest 1933 From the Diary of C.G. Crawford, Some notes on Climbing in Formosa by W.H. Murray, etc.
£10.00 [ref: 280475]
1st Ed. [vi] + 199pp. + [x] + pp.(200-429). + [iv]. [Lacking all before text]. Numerous plates and maps including some folding and several colour. Pencil annotations, some light browning, original upper wrapps. bound in at rear, rebound in navy cloth, sl. rubbed gilt lettering to spine.
From the Library of William Allsup (1890-1969). Climber, Mountaineer, founder member of the Himalayan Club of which he became Vice-President in 1943. Howard Somervell penned obituaries of him in the Fell & Rock Climbing Journal and Alpine Journal.
Articles include Mountains and Glaciers in West Patagonia by H.N. Pallin, The Mountain Everest Expedition 1933 by Hugh Ruttledge, Ruwenzori from the West by Xavier de Grunne, etc.
£10.00 [ref: 280473]
1st Ed. 366pp. + x. [Lacking all before text]. Numerous plates and maps including some folding. Some light browning, original upper wrapps. bound in at rear, rebound in navy cloth, rubbed gilt lettering to spine.
From the Library of William Allsup (1890-1969). Climber, Mountaineer, founder member of the Himalayan Club of which he became Vice-President in 1943. Howard Somervell penned obituaries of him in the Fell & Rock Climbing Journal and Alpine Journal.
Articles include Corsica in May by Victor H. Gatty, Discoveries in Central Asia, The Mountaineering Aspect of Himalayan Glaciers by William Hunter Workman, etc.
£15.00 [ref: 280417]
1st Ed. viii + 630pp. Many plates and maps including some folding. Some light browning, modern e.ps., modern leatherette backed marbled boards with original cloth label to spine.
From the Library of William Allsup (1890-1969). Climber, Mountaineer, founder member of the Himalayan Club of which he became Vice-President in 1943. Howard Somervell penned obituaries of him in the Fell & Rock Climbing Journal and Alpine Journal.
Articles include Climbs in the Andes in 1898 By Sir Martin Conway, The Highest Climbs on Record by Douglas W. Freshfield, The Ascent of Yllimani by Sir Martin Conway, Ushba by W. Rickmer Rickmers etc.
£15.00 [ref: 280378]
1st Ed. viii + 472pp. 6 plates and maps including 1 folding. Some light browning, marbled e.ps., contemporary gilt rule edged half morocco with marbled boards, extremities rubbed, gilt lettering and motifs to spine.
From the Library of William Allsup (1890-1969). Climber, Mountaineer, founder member of the Himalayan Club of which he became Vice-President in 1943. Howard Somervell penned obituaries of him in the Fell & Rock Climbing Journal and Alpine Journal.
Articles include The Golden Eagle and its Eyrie by W.A. Baillie Grohman, Across Lapland by W.E. Hall, Two Attempts on Aiguille du Dru by C.T. Dent, etc.
£20.00 [ref: 280379]