Himalayan mountaineering
Collection of works
Estimate: £300 - £500
Auction: 18 June 2025 from 10:00 BST
Description
[Everest trilogy:] Mount Everest, The Reconnaissance, 1912, by Lieut.-Col. C. K. Howard-Bury; The Assault on Mount Everest, 1922, by Brigadier-General Hon. C. G. Bruce; The Fight for Everest: 1924, by Lieutenant-Colonel E. F. Norton. London: Edward Arnold & Co., 1922-3-5. 3 works, first editions, 8vo, original varicoloured cloth, all plates and maps as called for, Assault on Mount Everest and The Fight for Mount Everest both signed on the front free endpaper by expedition member Geoffrey Bruce (each volume with laid-in manuscript note stating ‘Maj-General Geoffrey Bruce signed this book in June 1968’), bookplate of Simon Fraser to each volume, Assault additionally with bookplate and ownership inscription of one E. D. Nicholson, spotting to edges and outer leaves;
together with 12 others (these not fully collated, most with bookplates), including: Eric Shipton, Upon that Mountain, 1943 (second impression, original cloth, inscribed on front free endpaper in pencil ‘JH Norton, from EFN, 25/2/44, with MS review holograph by E F Norton', with said review laid in (a single foolscap sheet), Edward F. Norton being deputy leader of the 1924 Everest expedition and a member of the 1922 expedition; John Ball, Peaks, Passes, and Glaciers, 1859 (first edition, contemporary black half morocco); George Francklin Atkinson, Curry and Rice, c.1860 (second edition, recased, tinted lithographic plates); Fanny Bullock and William Hunter Workman, Ice-Bound Heights of the Mustagh, 1908 (first edition, original cloth); and similar (15)