We have received notice of a big sale of old mountaineering books which were duplicates in the FRCC library. The “blurb” is below. I can’t post up the [electronic] catalogue, but if anyone wants a copy just email me and I’ll FW it on
ANDREW
In the Spring of 2014, the library of the Fell and Rock Climbing Club was established in its new home at the Armitt Museum in Ambleside. In the weeks before the move, the FRCC’s Librarian Peter Lucas set about the huge task of removing the many duplicate volumes, which have been donated to the Club over the last century.
These duplicate volumes have been given to the Museum to sell, and part of the proceeds will be used for the conservation of the many rare and valuable books within the FRCC library and also to promote interest in the historic collections held within the Armitt Library.
This sale of books has been described by a collector as ‘a once in lifetime opportunity for anyone with an interest in mountaineering literature’.
The books for sale range geographically from the Himalayas to the Alps and the mountain ranges of Eastern Europe, Russia, Scandinavia and the Arctic regions, also the Canadian Rockies down to the Andes. In fact wherever there is a mountain, the Armitt bookshop has books about them. There is also a significant collection relating to British and Irish mountaineering and a large number of rare and collectible works.
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