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Auction Date
August 28, 2025 - August 28, 2025
Page Size: 379 items in 16 pages
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
251 [Forster (Major-General J. Burton)

] "K.C.A.J." The Sportsman's Vade-Mecum for the Himalayas, frontispiece

1891 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 190.50
252 Bourrit (Marc Theodore)

A Relation of a Journey to the Glaciers in the Dutchy of Savoy

1776 GBP 300.00 - 400.00 GBP 533.40
253 Clementi (Mrs. Cecil)

Through British Guiana to the Summit of Roraima

1920 GBP 150.00 - 200.00 GBP 279.40
254 Conway (Sir William Martin)

Climbing and Exploration in the Karakoram-Himalayas

1894 GBP 150.00 - 200.00 Not Sold
255 Cunningham (C. D. ) & Captain W. de W. Abney.

The Pioneers of the Alps

1887 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 355.60
256 Girdlestone (Rev. A. G.)

The High Alps without Guides: being a Narrative of Adventures in Switzerland

1870 GBP 300.00 - 400.00 GBP 457.20
257 Hunt (John)

The Ascent of Everest

1953 GBP 150.00 - 200.00 Not Sold
258 Hunt (John)

The Ascent of Everest

1993 GBP 600.00 - 800.00 GBP 1,270.00
259 Whymper (Edward)

The Ascent of the Matterhorn, half-title

1880 GBP 100.00 - 150.00 Not Sold
260 Workman (Fanny Bullock & William Hunter)

[Illustrations of Ice Wilds of Eastern Karakoram],

1917. GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 279.40
261 Gem of the Pacific (The)

Colourful New Zealand ... To Commemorate the First Landing in New Zealand of H. J. Rapson on March 7th

1938 GBP 150.00 - 200.00 GBP 127.00
262 Various cartographers (18th and 19th century)

Collection of over 50 mining maps and plans

19th and 20th century GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 406.40
263 Ross (Malcolm)

A Climber in New Zealand

1914 GBP 300.00 - 500.00 Not Sold
264 Brenchley (Julius L.)

Jottings during the Cruise of H.M.S. Curacoa among The South Sea Islands in 1865

1873 GBP 400.00 - 600.00 GBP 533.40
265 Crozet (Julien Marie)

Crozet's Voyage to Tasmania, New Zealand, the Ladrone Islands

1891 GBP 150.00 - 200.00 GBP 127.00
266 Hockin (Rev. John Pearce)

A Supplement to the Account of the Pelew Islands...

1803 GBP 300.00 - 400.00 Not Sold
267 Keate (George)

An Account of the Pelew Islands

1789 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 533.40
268 Kolff (Dirk Hendrik)

Voyages of the Dutch Brig of War Dourga, through the...Moluccan Archipelago and...New Guinea

1840 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 177.80
269 Nightingale (Thomas)

Oceanic Sketches

1835 GBP 300.00 - 400.00 Not Sold
270 Rosenberg (C.B.H. von)

Reistochten naar de Geelvinkbaai op Nieuw-Guinea in de jaren 1869 en 1870

The Hague 1875 GBP 300.00 - 400.00 Not Sold
271 Amundsen (Roald)

The South Pole

1912 GBP 500.00 - 700.00 GBP 1,016.00
272 Day (Alan Edwin)

Search for the Northwest Passage: An Annotated Bibliography,

New York & London 1986 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 127.00
273 [Brown (R.N. Rudmose)]

The Voyage of the "Scotia"

1906 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 406.40
274 Cherry-Garrard (Apsley)

The Worst Journey in the World

New York 1930 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 635.00
275 Crantz (David)

The History of Greenland

1767 GBP 150.00 - 200.00 GBP 304.80
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