Oct 18, 2016 - Sale 2425

Sale 2425 - Lot 250

Price Realized: $ 1,000
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 300 - $ 500
(HIMALAYAS.) Group of 4 volumes. Various sizes, original cloth, varying wear; internal condition as noted below; Ruttledge in dust jacket. London, 1876-1934; Edinburgh, 1902

Additional Details

first editions. Neate M74, C94, M179, R99; Yakushi (1994) M255, C315, M565a, R413.

[Mazuchelli.] The Indian Alps and How We Crossed Them; being, A Narrative of Two Years' Residence in the Eastern Himalaya. 10 chromolithographed plates; folding lithographed map. Spine ends worn, front hinge partly cracked; plates dampstained in outer margin and foxed, offsetting onto adjacent leaves, contents otherwise clean. 1876. Half-title inscribed by the publisher.

Collie. Climbing on the Himalaya and Other Mountain Ranges. 18 plates; 3 folding maps. Front joint starting at top, rear hinge partly cracked; contents clean. 1902.

Mumm. Five Months in the Himalaya: A Record of Mountain Travel in Garhwal and Kashmir. 29 photographic plates, including 4 folding panoramas; 48 mounted text illustrations; 2 folding maps. Addendum slip tipped in. Top of spine worn, upper outer corner of front cover and contents bumped; scattered foxing. 1909.

Ruttledge. Everest 1933. Second printing. 59 plates; 4 maps, all but one folding. Minimal binding wear; scattered light foxing, owner's inscription and mounted greeting card on front free endpaper; dust jacket worn along edges with stain at bottom of spine panel. 1934.