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Lot 228
Sale 625 - Adventure & Exploration Library of Steve Fossett
Mar 15, 2019
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WHYMPER, Edward (1840-1911). Scrambles Amongst the Alps in the years 1860-69. London: John Murray, 1871.
8vo. With 5 folding maps and panoramas, 21 engraved plates, numerous in-text illustrations. Original publisher's green cloth gilt (rebacked preserving original spine and endpapers, rubbed and slightly soiled). FIRST EDITION of Whymper's renowned mountaineering work, "the most famous of all mountaineering books" (Neate), accounting his first ascent of the Matterhorn in 1865, during which 4 of the 6 members of his party died. Neate W65; Perret 4557.