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FILIPPI, FILIPPO DE. Storia della Spedizione Scientifica Italiana nel Himàlaia Caracorùm e Turchestàn Cinese (1913-1914). 32 plates; 3 maps; text illustrations throughout; 9 folding panoramas on 5 leaves and 2 (of 3) folding maps loose in folder at end; lacks the expedition route map. xiii, [3], 541, [2] pages. 4to, original boards, soiled, spine darkened, joints partly cracked; scattered minor foxing. Front free endpaper inscribed (in another hand?): "F. S. Kenyon from the author September 1924." 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 (1994) F73a. Laid in is an offprint of Filippi's review of the scientific reports of the expedition from the October 1935 issue of Scientia, inscribed: "Kind Messages F. D. F."
