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Are you interested in this item? This item is up for auction at Catawiki. Please click on "respond to advert" (orange button) to get redirected to the Catawiki website. Catawiki’s goal is to make special objects universally available. Our weekly auctions feature thousands of unusual, rare, and exceptional objects you won’t find in just any store. I have here for sale a book entitled TRAVELS AMONGST THE GREAT ANDES OF THE EQUATOR by Edward Whymper. It is 2nd edition, published by John Murray in 1892. The book is essentially part travelogue and part mountaineering account across a route that covers Guaranda, Chimborazo, Chuquipoquio, Latacunga, Machachi, Corazon, Cotopaxi, Illiniza, Sincholagua, Quito, Antisana, Pichincha, Cayambe, Sara-Urcu, Imbabura, Cotocachi, Carihuairazo, Guayaquil and the mountain climbing of the peaks in this area. There are 20 full page b/w plates as well as 118 in-text illustrations and 4 maps including a fold-out one of Quito (worn at edges), and a large fold-out one of the route taken by the author in the pouch at the back of the book.
A very nice copy of an important work by mountaineer and engraver Edward Whymper, best known for the first ascent of the Matterhorn in 1865. Trained as a wood engraver from an early age, Whymper was introduced to mountaineering when he was commissioned by the publisher William Longman to make illustrations of the Alps. This spurred him make other climbs, including many first ascents, and travelled as far as Greenland and Ecuador, recording his adventures in illustrated books and journals. "Often considered his magnum opus, Travels among the Great Andes of the Equator (1891-2) combines a popular account of his ascents with his detailed scientific observations"
(Peter H. Hansen for DNB).
Beige hardboards with gilt decorative border to the top and bottom of the boards. Gilt lettering to the spine is faded. Some rubbing to the corners and wear to top and bottom of spine, front hinge badly cracked. Pages are rough cut and a little darkened to edges but binding firm and pages clean. Map in pouch has some wear. Fair condition. 456 pages, 23 cm x 17 cm. 67304917
