Feb 28, 2013 - Sale 2305

Sale 2305 - Lot 309

Price Realized: $ 390
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 400 - $ 600
(MOUNTAINEERING.) Roth, Abraham; and Fellenberg, Eduard von. Doldenhorn und Weisse Frau. Zum ersten Mal erstiegen und geschildert. 11 chromolithographed plates, including one double-page; 2 tinted wood-engraved plates; folding chromolithographed map. [4], 86, [1] pages, including half-title. 4to, modern leather-backed boards, chipped original wrappers bound in; half-title heavily foxed, varying foxing elsewhere marginally affecting some plates. Koblenz: Karl Baedeker, 1863

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first edition of a book describing the first successful ascent of 2 peaks in the Bernese Alps, with accounts of earlier attempts. Neate R77 (first edition in English, same year).