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Karakoram and Western Himalaya 1909. BY Filippo de FILIPPI

Creator: Filippo de FILIPPI
Offered by: Shapero Gallery

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FILIPPI, Filippo de.

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Karakoram and Western Himalaya 1909.
Account of the Expedition of H.R.H. Prince Luigi Amedeo of Savoy, Duke of Abruzzi.

Stock Code 105157
London, Constable and Company, 1912

Current price£6,500.00
Deluxe edition bound in vellum. the rare vellum bound deluxe edition. The full account of the Duke of Abruzzi's expedition to K2 in the Karakoram in 1909. Filippo de Filippi (1869-1938), Italian surgeon, scholar and mountaineer, was the official recorder of the Duke's expedition and in 1913-14 led the Italian Himalayan Scientific Expedition.

The classic work on the Baltoro region; a most accurate and well-illustrated reference source.

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.

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Documentation:	Documented elsewhere (similar item)
Period:	1900-1919
Condition:	Good.
Styles / Movements:	Traditional
Dealer Reference #:	105157
Incollect Reference #:	667729

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