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WHYMPER, EDWARD. Travels amongst the Great Andes of the Equator. 20 plates; map. xxvi, 456 pages; 14 plates. xxii, [4], 147 pages. 2 volumes, plus atlas of 3 folding maps. Together, 3 volumes. 8vo, 223x161 mm, original 1/4 leather gilt, spines and cover corners worn; contents clean apart from foxing on linen backing of 2 folding maps. Bookplates of Boodle's (gift of E. S. Barker, Esq.). London: John Murray, 1892
first edition. Number 48 of an unspecified limitation for subscribers, with the author's facsimile signature in both volumes. Whymper made the first ascent of Chimborazo and several other peaks in Ecuador. Neate W66 ("the first of the few great classics of South American mountaineering literature").
