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Lot 195
Sale 625 - Adventure & Exploration Library of Steve Fossett
Mar 15, 2019
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WHITE, John Claude (1853-1918). Sikhim & Bhutan. Twenty-One Years on the North-East Frontier 1887-1908. London: Edward Arnold, 1909.
8vo. With folding map, 41 plates (one folding, 39 photographic). (Some minor spotting to first and last few leaves.) Original publisher's pictorial green cloth (covers slightly dampstained, hinges slightly rubbed). Provenance: M. Beast? (signature).FIRST EDITION of White's memoir, covering the entirety of his career in the Himalayas, and containing many of his celebrated photographs. Neate W56; Yakushi (1994) W134.