Climbing On The Himalaya And Other Mountain Ranges -- 1902 FIRST EDITION

1902 FIRST PRINTING of First Edition. Rebound in dark navy leather spine and cover corners, marbled boards, red title patch spine with gilt lettering, gilt rules and small decorations spine. The book has edge rubbing, cracking to bottom 4cm of front hinge (nowhere near breaking or coming loose, very secure), similar crack lower rear hinge with some small loss of spine material, cracked EP paper but hinges very strong and not loose, solid binding, old owner bookplate on front pastedown otherwise no owner marks or writing on any pages, some light foxing on frontispiece tissue guard and a little foxing on frontispiece and title page but nearly all pages have zero foxing, complete with all pages, plates, tissue guards and maps. The book measures 217mm tall x 147mm, and has 315 pages, 18 b/w photos & sketches, 3 color folding maps, bibliography, index. PHOTOS ARE OF THE ACTUAL BOOK BEING OFFERED.