Lot 188
Mountaineering.- Hunt (John) The Ascent of Everest, 40th Anniversary Edition, one of 500 copies signed by ten surviving members of the 1953 British Everest Expedition, 1993
Hammer Price: £1,000
Description
Mountaineering.- Hunt (John) The Ascent of Everest, 40th Anniversary Edition, one of 500 copies signed by ten surviving members of the 1953 British Everest Expedition, ink ownership inscription of James S. Milledge to endpaper, maps and plates, original blue half morocco, slip-case, 8vo, 1993.
⁂ Signatures including John Hunt, Charles Evans, Griffith Pugh, George Band, Alfred Gregory, George Lowe, Michael Westmacott, Charles Wylie, Michael Ward and Edmund Hillary.
James S. Milledge (1930-2022), mountaineer and researcher, known as "the father of mountain medicine".
Description
Mountaineering.- Hunt (John) The Ascent of Everest, 40th Anniversary Edition, one of 500 copies signed by ten surviving members of the 1953 British Everest Expedition, ink ownership inscription of James S. Milledge to endpaper, maps and plates, original blue half morocco, slip-case, 8vo, 1993.
⁂ Signatures including John Hunt, Charles Evans, Griffith Pugh, George Band, Alfred Gregory, George Lowe, Michael Westmacott, Charles Wylie, Michael Ward and Edmund Hillary.
James S. Milledge (1930-2022), mountaineer and researcher, known as "the father of mountain medicine".