Mar 09, 2017 - Sale 2438

Sale 2438 - Lot 228

Price Realized: $ 281
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 200 - $ 300
FILIPPI, FILIPPO DE. Storia della Spedizione Scientifica Italiana nel Himàlaia Caracorùm e Turchestàn Cinese (1913-1914). 32 plates; 3 maps; text illustrations throughout; 9 folding panoramas on 5 leaves and 3 folding maps loose in folder at end. xiii, [3], 541, [2] pages. 4to, original boards, soiled, spine darkened with slight damage at top, rear hinge cracked; infrequent minor foxing. Contemporary owner's inscription on front free endpaper; Bodleian Library stamps (released) on verso of plates, maps, dedication leaf, and last index leaf. Bologna: Nicola Zanichelli, (1924)

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first edition of an account of the Italian scientific expedition to Kashmir, Ladakh, Baltistan, and Chinese Turkestan, the most extensive ever undertaken in the region. Neate F25 note; Yakushi (1994) F55a.