Oct 18, 2016 - Sale 2425

Sale 2425 - Lot 333

Price Realized: $ 2,340
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 300 - $ 500
WORKMAN, FANNY BULLOCK; and WORKMAN, WILLIAM HUNTER. Group of 6 volumes, profusely illustrated, mostly after photographs by the authors. 8vo, last volume in binder's cloth, the rest in worn original cloth; contents clean except as noted. London, 1900-17

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first editions. Neate W124, W123, W125, W122, W126; Yakushi (1994) W228a, W229, W230, W231, W232.

In the Ice World of the Himalaya . . . Among the Peaks and Passes of Ladakh, Nubra, Suru, and Baltistan. 67 plates; 3 folding maps. Recased, endpapers renewed; frontispiece tissue guard foxed offsetting onto title, clean tears in first 2 maps. 1900.

Ice-Bound Heights of the Mustagh. An Account of Two Seasons of Pioneer Exploration and High Climbing in the Baltistan Himalaya. Color frontispiece; 6 plates and numerous full-page and text illustrations; 2 folding maps. Spine ends nicked, gilt lettering dulled, hinges cracked; endpapers browned. 1908.

Peaks and Glaciers of Nun Kun. 92 plates; folding map. Endpapers foxed, with bookplate and contemporary owner's signature on front endpapers. 1909.

The Call of the Snowy Hispar. A Narrative of Exploration and Mountaineering on the Northern Frontier of India. 113 plates; 2 folding maps. Gilt spine lettering dulled, 2 holes in front joint. 1910.

Two Summers in the Ice Wilds of Eastern Karakoram. 134 plates reproducing photographs by the authors; 3 maps. Front hinge cracked, owner's signature on front free endpaper, half-title browned, index leaves loose. (1917.)

Illustrations of Ice Wilds of Eastern Karakoram [cover title]. Bound volume containing a set of the plates and maps from the preceding work. Some plates loose. [1917.]