(Mountaineering), Charles Granville Bruce (1866-1939): 'Twen...

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(Mountaineering), Charles Granville Bruce (1866-1939): 'Twenty Years in the Himalaya', London, Edward Arnold, 1910, 1st edition, portrait frontispiece with tissue guard, folding map, folding b/w photographic panoramic plate depicting Eastern Himalaya, 59 b/w. photographic plates, 335pp, ex Repton School Library with coat of arms bookplate to front pastedown and two Repton inkstamps only, original pictorial cloth gilt. An account of the author's explorations in the Himalayan districts, Bruce travelled extensively in the Himalayas accompanying William Conway, and later led the early Mount Everest 1922 and 1924 Expeditions; together with Adolphus Warburton Moore (1841-1887): 'The Alps in 1864. A Private Journal. edited by Alex B. W. Kennedy', Edinburgh, David Douglas, 1902, 1st trade edition, portrait frontis + 21 photographic plates + 20 chapter head piece photographs & 10 maps of which 2 full page, as called for, ex Repton School Library with coat of arms bookplate to front pastedown and two Repton inkstamps only, original olive green cloth gilt. Moore's celebrated account of the first ascent of Mont Blanc via the Brenva ice-ridge; together with Sir William Martin Conway: 'The Alps From End to End', Westminster, Archibald Constable, 1895, 1st edition, 100 full-page coloured illustrations by A.D. McCormick as called for, ex Repton School Library with coat of arms bookplate to front pastedown and inkstamp to FFEP only, original cloth gilt (worn), top edge gilt (3)