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Lot 221
Sale 625 - Adventure & Exploration Library of Steve Fossett
Mar 15, 2019
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MEYER, Hans Horst (1853-1939). Der Kilimandjaro. Reisen und Studien. Berlin: Dietrich Reimer, 1900.
8vo. With 2 folding color-printed maps (one folding in rear cover pocket), 4 chromolithographic plates, 16 photogravures on thick paper & 20 photographic plates (including 3 panoramas). Original publisher's green cloth gilt. FIRST EDITION, giving a detailed account of Meyer's ascent of Kilimanjaro, first described in Across East African Glaciers (see previous lot). Kilimanjaro's second highest peak, Mawenzi, is also known as Hans Meyer Peak. Perret 2988.
