FILIPPI, Filippo de.
Karakoram and Western Himalaya 1909.
Account of the Expedition of H.R.H. Prince Luigi Amedeo of Savoy, Duke of Abruzzi.
Description
Deluxe first edition in English. Stamped presentation copy. 2 volumes, text and atlas, 4to., xvii, 469 pp., text volume: half-title, photogravure frontispiece and 25 photogravure plates, all with printed tissue guards, 5 double-page photographic panoramas (2 showing 2 views), numerous photographic illustrations in the text, all after photographs by Vittorio Sella, 2 coloured photographic plates of geological specimens. Atlas: 16pp. list of illustrations and index, 18 folding photographic panoramas on 17 sheets after Sella (K & L on 1 sheet), 3 folding coloured maps, all housed loose in portfolio, uniformly bound in publisher's vellum gilt, text volume top edge gilt, joints rubbed, spines soiled, internally a fine fresh copy.
Bibliography
Neate F26; Yakushi F71b.
Stock ID:105157
