Oct 18, 2016 - Sale 2425

Sale 2425 - Lot 235

Price Realized: $ 3,120
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,000 - $ 2,000
FRESHFIELD, DOUGLAS. The Exploration of the Caucasus. 79 mounted plates on India paper reproducing photographs chiefly by Vittorio Sella, including 3 folding panoramas; 4 folding maps, including one in Volume 2 rear cover pocket. [2], xxiii, [1], 278; x, 295, [1] pages. 2 volumes. 4to, 315x238 mm, original 1/4 vellum, minor wear and discoloration along cover edges, corners bumped, Volume 2 spine slightly darkened with gilt spine lettering dulled and short crack at top; contents clean apart from 1950s-60s booksellers' prices pencilled on Volume 2 rear free endpaper; top edges gilt, others uncut. Prospectus laid in. London: Edward Arnold, 1896

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first edition. large-paper issue. number 16 of only 100 sets. "The encyclopedic work on the Caucasus Range by one of the foremost mountain explorers of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries"--Farquhar/Cox 44. Neate F64.