FILIPPI, Filippo de (1869-1938). La Spedizone nel Karkaoram e nell 'Himalaia Occidentale 1909. Illustrata da Vittorio Sella. Bologna: N
2 volumes, 4to (260 x 195 mm). Text: 33 photogravure plates (including 6 panoramas on 4 leaves), one color plate. Portfolio: 18 panoramas on 17 leaves, 3 color-printed folding maps, all loose in portfolio as issued. Original gilt-lettered quarter vellum (minor browning to portfolio volume, split to end of spine). Provenance: New York Public Library (two ink stamps on verso and recto of one map). FIRST EDITION of the narrative of Duke d'Abruzzi's last major expedition in which his team climbed the southeast ridge of K2 to 6,700m, now known as the Abruzzi Spur; completed the mapping of the upper Baltoro Glacier; and set an altitude record on Chogolisa of 7,500m, just 150m short of the summit (a record unbroken until Everest in 1922). This is Vittorio Sella's finest work of the most dramatic scenery photographed on his expeditions with the Duke, especially his panoramas of the Baltoro. With the rare portfolio of panoramas and maps. "Classic work on the Baltoro region; a most accurate and well illustrated reference source"--Neate F26 note. Yakushi F53a; Perret 1657; see Neate F26 (English edition).
