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FILIPPI, FILIPPO DE. Storia della Spedizione Scientifica Italiana nel Himàlaia Caracorùm e Turchestàn Cinese (1913-1914). Numerous illustrations, including 9 folding panoramas on 5 leaves and 3 folding maps loose in pocket at end. xiii, [3], 541, [2] pages. 4to, original boards, rebacked with leather retaining partly discolored original backstrip, endpapers renewed, dampstains along fore edge of covers; contents generally clean, with foxing on top and fore edges of contents not visible internally. Bologna: Nicola Zanichelli, (1924)
first edition of an account of the Italian scientific expedition to Kashmir, Ladakh, Baltistan, and Chinese Turkestan, the most extensive ever undertaken in the region. Neate F25 note; Yakushi F55a.inscribed and signed on the front endleaf: "To Mrs. Wolcott her devoted friend Filippo De Filippi La Capponcina 12 August 1924."
