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First Over Everest. The Houston-Mount Everest Expedition 1933.

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Book Description

First edition. 8vo. ; port. frontis. of Lady Houston, 64 photo. illusts. including "An Anaglyph from Vertical Photographs Taken Over Everest. Made to Appear in Stereoscopic Relief" (with accompanying 3-D spectacles in pocket at rear), 3 double-page photo. panoramas, maps inc. 2 folding, one folding table; very good in the original cloth, lettered in red, in original d.-w., which is worn with some loss to head of spine with, loosely inserted, a letter from expedition member L. V. S. Blacker relating to the production in 1950 of a map of the Everest region.
Dealer Notes
The first, and successful, flight over Everest using two Westland P.V. 3 aircraft. The superb images were later to provide information for the successful southern approach to and ascent of Everest in 1953. This copy contains a letter from expedition member L. V. Stewart Blacker to Ian Mumford, then at the Cartographic Department of the RGS, who at this time was working with Michael Ward to produce a map of the southern approaches to Mount Everest, based on photographs taken on Blacker's flight over Everest.
Author Fellowes, Air-Commodore P.F.M., L. V. Stewart Blacker, et al.
Date [1933]
Binding Hardback, original cloth, in original d.-w.
Publisher London: John Lane
Condition See below
Pages pp. xix, 279

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