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Whymper (Edward). Scrambles Amongst the Alps in the Years 1860-69, 4th edition, London: John Murray 1893, folding maps, illustrations, top edge gilt, original cream cloth with snowflakes stamped in gilt, a little light spotting to covers, 4to, together with King (Clarence). Mountaineering in the Sierra Nevada, 1st UK edition, London: Sampson Low, Marston, Low & Searle, 1872, a little light spotting, contemporary presentation inscription, top edge gilt, contemporary half calf gilt, some fading to spine, a little rubbed, 8vo, plus Conway (Sir William Martin . The Alps From End to End, 2nd edition, London: Archibald Constable, 1895, 100 monochrome illustrations by A.D. M'Cormick, some spotting to endpapers, original cloth, partial fading to covers, 8vo, with other mountaineering including Hugh Ruttledge's Everest 1933, 1934, and Everest: the Unfinished Adventure, 1937, F.S. Smythe's The Valley of the Flowers, 1938, John Hunt's The Ascent of Everest, 1953, and Wilfred Noyce's South Col, 1954