Bolivia by Gerstmann Roberto, Signed (2 results)

Encuadernación de tapa dura. Condition: Muy bien. 1ª Edición. In-4. 150 photographic plates. 22 pages description of the plates in Spanish, German and English. Original suede effect cloth. Spine faded. Inscribed by the author to his nephew. W54. Dedicatoria autógrafa del autor.

Folio, frontispiece portrait of Gerstmann, pp. [6], 150 photographic plates (signed, numbered, and captioned), 1 map of Bolivia, pp. 22, [1 (colophon)]; a few spots to margins and fore-edges, occasional light marks; very good in contemporary half vellum, marbled sides, 'Bolivia' in ink to spine, top edge gilt, marbled endpapers; somewhat worn and marked, some foxing to endpapers.First edition with 150 striking Bolivian photographs by the Vienna-born photographer Roberto Gerstmann, who travelled extensively in South America, with a preface in Spanish, German, and English by Dr F. Ahlfeld.Ahlfeld writes of Gerstmann in the preface as follows: 'His teeth rattling with fever, he rode through the deserts of lonely Carangas; quite alone, accompanied only by his faithful camera, he stalked the wild Siriono Indians in the jungles of the Beni; and without any experience in mountain climbing, he undertook dangerous ascensions of hitherto unconquered peaks he roamed forever through Bolivia from the volcanoes in the West to the Iténez River near the Brazilian border Just as the country appears to the traveler glaciers, jungles, an old Spanish church, the pampa, a typical indian, and again soaring mountains thus, with all its sharp contrasts, it will present itself to the reader of this volume.? ??