Oct 18, 2016 - Sale 2425

Sale 2425 - Lot 228

Price Realized: $ 4,000
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 300 - $ 500
FITZGERALD, EDWARD ARTHUR. Climbs in the New Zealand Alps. 46 plates; folding map in rear cover pocket. [2], xvi, 363 pages, including limitation leaf and half-title. 8vo, 237x163 mm, original 1/2 red morocco by Zaehnsdorf; contents clean. London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1896

Additional Details

first edition, de luxe issue. number 42 of only 60 copies on Japan paper, signed by the author. "Fitzgerald made a number of good climbs after losing the first ascent of Mount Cook to local climbers. Both he and his book were unpopular with New Zealand mountaineers"--Neate F36. See also lots 285 and 286.