Lot 65
G. O. Dyhrenfurth, Baltoro. Ein Himalaya-Buch. Basel 1939. Book and insert folder.
Estimate
€ 200
Starting Price
€ 140
Lot:
65
Category:
Geography and work of views
Dyhrenfurth, Günter Oskar: Baltoro. Ein Himalaya-Buch. With an insert folder. 2 parts Basel: Benno Schwabe & Co 1939. 25 x 17,9 cm. With 202 illustrations on plates; in the supplementary folder: 1 folded sheet with 4 maps, 4 folded panoramas, and 23 sheets with 50 line drawings (tracing). 194 pp., 1 sheet, Original cloth-bound edition with illustrated original dust jacket and original slipcase in original slipcase.
(The slipcase is faded. The folder is discolored. The dust jacket has missing sections along the top edge.)
Yakushi (1994) D385. - With contributions by Hettie Dyhrenfurth, Hans Ertl, and André Roch, and dedicated to Vittorio Sella. Peterm. Mitt. 1941, Lit. Report No. 320, p. 447: “The book covers the work and findings of the 1934 International Himalayan Expedition [...] The book’s strength lies in the large number of high-quality, well-reproduced photographs, which convey a small sense of the overwhelmingly beautiful and magnificent mountain world of the Baltoro Glacier. Among the photographs are also some by Vittorio Sella, the grand master of high-altitude photography.”
(The slipcase is faded. The folder is discolored. The dust jacket has missing sections along the top edge.)
Yakushi (1994) D385. - With contributions by Hettie Dyhrenfurth, Hans Ertl, and André Roch, and dedicated to Vittorio Sella. Peterm. Mitt. 1941, Lit. Report No. 320, p. 447: “The book covers the work and findings of the 1934 International Himalayan Expedition [...] The book’s strength lies in the large number of high-quality, well-reproduced photographs, which convey a small sense of the overwhelmingly beautiful and magnificent mountain world of the Baltoro Glacier. Among the photographs are also some by Vittorio Sella, the grand master of high-altitude photography.”