拍品 119
  • 119

WORKMAN, FANNY BULLOCK, AND WILLIAM HUNTER WORKMAN. 'ICE-BOUND HEIGHTS OF THE MUSTAGH: AN ACCOUNT OF TWO SEASONS OF PIONEER EXPLORATION AND HIGH CLIMBING IN THE BALTISTAN HIMALAYA'. LONDON: ARCHIBALD CONSTABLE & CO. LTD., 1908

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2,000 - 3,000 USD
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描述

  • 'Ice-Bound Heights of the Mustagh: An Account of Two Seasons of Pioneer Exploration and High Climbing in the Baltistan Himalaya'. London: Archibald Constable & Co. Ltd., 1908
  • Paper, ink, leather
8vo. 2 folding colored maps, 103 plates, 97 of which photographic, 3 photogravures, 3 colored reproductions of sketches, 65 in-text photographic illustrations. Original olive green pictorial cloth, top edge gilt, photo illustrated dust-jacket; jacket with minor restoration, spine panel of jacket sunned. Slipcase. 

來源

The MacRobert Trust (i.e. the Workman Family Trust, by descent through Lady Rachel Workman MacRobert, bookplate to front free endpaper) — Franklin Brooke-Hitching (his initials to front free endpaper; his sale, Sotheby's London, 30 September 2015, lot 1382) 

Condition

8vo. 2 folding colored maps, 103 plates, 97 of which photographic, 3 photogravures, 3 colored reproductions of sketches, 65 in-text photographic illustrations. Original olive green pictorial cloth, top edge gilt, photo illustrated dust-jacket; jacket with minor restoration, spine panel of jacket sunned. Slipcase.
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拍品資料及來源

First edition, the Brooke-Hitching copy. Fanny Workman was one of the earliest professional mountaineers, and set several women's altitude records.