Oct 18, 2016 - Sale 2425

Sale 2425 - Lot 229

Price Realized: $ 2,500
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 400 - $ 600
FITZGERALD, EDWARD ARTHUR. The Highest Andes: A Record of the First Ascent of Aconcagua and Tupungato in Argentina, and the Exploration of the Surrounding Valleys. 45 photographic plates, mostly mounted gravures; folding panorama; 2 folding maps. xvi, 390, [1] pages. Folio, 290x232 mm, original 1/4 cloth, somewhat worn and soiled; free endpapers browned, dampstain in upper margin of frontispiece, some foxing on plate mounts and maps; uncut and unopened. Bookplate of Vernon Howard. London: Methuen, 1899

Additional Details

first edition, large-paper issue. number 42 of only 60 copies. Farquhar/Cox 86; Neate F37.