Mount Everest: The Reconnaissance, 1921
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Mount Everest: The Reconnaissance, 1921

£3,800

London: Edward Arnold & Co, 1922, 47 photographic plates, 3 maps, errata slip at p. 350, bookseller’s ticket to front pastedown, some toning to endpapers, original publisher’s quarter vellum gilt, joints rubbed, backstrip toned & marked, extremities rubbed, faint marking to front board, 4to
No. 78 of 200 large paper copies. The large paper edition includes 14 additional plates.

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London: Edward Arnold & Co, 1922, 47 photographic plates, 3 maps, errata slip at p. 350, bookseller’s ticket to front pastedown, some toning to endpapers, original publisher’s quarter vellum gilt, joints rubbed, backstrip toned & marked, extremities rubbed, faint marking to front board, 4to
No. 78 of 200 large paper copies. The large paper edition includes 14 additional plates.

FIRST EDITION OF THE FIRST EVEREST EXPEDITION

Charles Howard-Bury was a British soldier, explorer, botanist and Conservative politician. In 1921 he led the Mount Everest Reconnaissance Expedition financed by the Mount Everest Committee (a joint body of the Alpine Club and the Royal Geographical Society). Howard-Bury was awarded the 1922 Founder’s Gold Medal of the Royal Geographical Society for his leadership of the expedition.

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