Book Description

First edition. 8vo; six sketch maps, 60 photo. illusts. on 30 leaves; very good in the original cloth, gilt, remain of upper cover of dust-wrapper loosely inserted. A presentation copy from the author to Willam Beucker Andreae, inscribed on the half-title.
Dealer Notes
The author led four expeditions to the Karakorum. This, the narrative of the 2nd, explored the Batura, Hispar and Shimshal glaciers. His wife Jenny Visser-Hooft accompanied him on all four expeditions, and her own account of the expedition appeared as Among the Kara-Korum Glaciers (London, 1926).
Author Visser, Ph. C.
Date 1926
Binding Original cloth
Publisher Rotterdam: Nijgh & Van Ditmar
Condition Very good.
Pages pp. 255

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