first edition
1926 · London
by Visser-Hooft, Jenny
London: Edward Arnold & Co, 1926. First edition, 8vo, pp. x, [2], 303, [1]; gravure frontispiece portrait, folding map, 1 other map in the text, and 24 plates from photographs; spine sunned, else a very good, sound, and clean copy in original blue cloth, gilt-stamped spine. Jenny Visser-Hoof (1888-1939) was a Dutch traveler, mountaineer, and writer known for the flora and fauna research she did in the 1920s with her husband, Philips Christiaan Visser, in Pakistan and India's Karakorum Glaciers region (see Wikipedia). Yakushi V104: "General account of the Netherland 2nd Karakoram expedition by the Vissers in 1925, exploring the Batura, Hispar, and Shimshal glaciers.
(Inventory #: 68638)