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[London: Printed for J. Newbery, 1745].. Original copper engraved sheet music with head-piece 'expressive of the sense of each particular song' (23 x 14.5 cm). Mounted. Songs by various composers, mostly for solo voice and continuo (figured bass), with versions for the flute, most headed by an engraved illustration. An expanded reissue of the 'English Orpheus', originally published by the engraver, Thomas Kitchin. Lyrics read, "Whilst Strephon on fair Chloe hung & gently woo'd & sweetly sung ye nymph in a disdainful air thus smiling mock'd ye shep. Care swains I know that you discover in my form a thousand charms, can you pint me out a lover worth ,y encircling arms. Boy no more approach my beauty 'till you equal merrit boast, to adore me is aduty thousands witnesses to their Cost. Stung to the heart the reclining swain, on the vain maid retorts again foolish creature did each feature bloom beyond the pride of nature, artful feigning, Coy disdaining, vain coquet destroy them all, go o'erbearing,… Read More

Seattle and London: The Mountaineers/Baton Wicks, 2000.. 8vo. (15 x 22.7 cm). pp. xviii+ 789. Original blue boards, gilt lettering to spine, pictoral dust-jacket. With 70 plates, of which 18 colour-printed. 5 maps. An excellent copy, as new. Everest: The Mountaineering History is more than a catalog of daring events by brave men. It seeks to explain why success or failure came about. It shows how mountaineers have overcome storms and high altitude as well as the human condition. For even in an era when big money, commercial guiding, and changing attitudes have had a profound effect on events, there have also been grand displays of the highest principles of mountain tradition. With extensive appendices, radically revised and updated, this is a book no lover of mountain adventure can be without.