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[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 copy. Publisher's pictorial cloth, richly gilt, edges and corners rubbed, upper edges gilt. Old inscription. First edition of this narrative about a journey along the Nepal-Sikkim frontier by the Singalila Ridge. Nina Mazuchelli's husband, Francis, a British army chaplain, was posted to Darjeeling after eleven years on the plains. Nina persuaded her husband and friend ('C') to explore the glaciers of the eastern Himalaya. They were not prepared for the blizzards and the snowstorms and were almost killed. Her account became a classic of mountaineering. Neate M74. Robinson p. 53. Yakushi (1984) M126.
Offered for EUR 1000.00 = appr. US$ 1579.00 by: Charlotte Du Rietz Rare Books - Book number: 99085
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