Oct 18, 2016 - Sale 2425

Sale 2425 - Lot 277

Price Realized: $ 2,470
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,500 - $ 2,500
MEYER, HANS. Across East African Glaciers: An Account of the First Ascent of Kilimanjaro. Mounted chromolithographed frontispiece, 8 mounted photographic plates, and 12 photogravures; 3 folding maps. xx, 404 pages. 4to, 250x178 mm, original cloth by Leighton Son and Hodge, with their ticket, light wear, spine ends rubbed; contemporary owner's signature on half-title, foxing on fore edges slightly showing internally, all but 2 of the gravure plates browned in upper and outer margins. Bookplate of Lee Lawrence Stopple. London: George Philip, 1891

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first edition in english, translated from the German original edition published the year before. Neate M92.