[MAZUCHELLI, NINA ELIZABETH]: - The Indian Alps and How We Crossed Them Being a Narrative of Two years' Residence in the Eastern Himalaya and Two Months' Tour into the Interior by a Lady Pioneer. Illustrated by Herself. London, Longmans, Green, and Co., 1876.
Royal 8vo. Pp. xvi, 612. With one folding map of Sikkim, 10 chromolithographed plates and vignettes throughout the text. A small marginal tear to the first plate. Some offsetting from the plates as usual otherwise a good and sound copy. Publisher's pictorial cloth, richly gilt, edges and corners rubbed, upper edges gilt. Old inscription. First edition. A narrative about an adventurous journey along the Nepal-Sikkim frontier by the Singalila Ridge exploring the glaciers of the eastern Himalayas by Nina Mazuchelli, wife of a British army chaplain. Her account became a classic of mountaineering. Neate M74. Robinson p. 53. Yakushi (1984) M126.
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