Oct 18, 2016 - Sale 2425
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Sale 2425 - Lot 254

Price Realized: $ 2,375
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200
HOWARD-BURY, CHARLES. Mount Everest: The Reconnaissance 1921. 47 photographic plates; 3 folding maps. xii, 356 pages, with errata slip at page 350. Folio, 317x240 mm, original 1/4 imitation vellum gilt, spine lightly foxed, ends darkened, cover corners rubbed; free endpapers browned, contents otherwise clean; top edges gilt, others uncut. London: Edward Arnold, 1922
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first edition of the official account of the first Everest expedition. large-paper issue, with 14 extra plates not included in the trade edition. number 51 of 200 copies. Farquhar/Cox 28; Neate H120; Yakushi (1994) H433a. See also lot 280.