[Caucasus]. - Lot 218

[Caucasus]. FRESHFIELD (Douglas W.). Travels in the Central Caucasus and Bashan, including visits to Ararat and Tabruz and ascents of Kazbek and Elbruz. London Longmans, Green & C., 1869. In-8, p.[III]-XIII, [1] f., 509 pp. frontispiece, plates, figures in-t. Contemporary green half-basin with corners, spine ribbed, decorated caissons, red title page, marbled edges. Very rare first edition illustrated with a chromolithographic frontispiece, 3 folding maps, 2 panoramas on one plate and 16 woodcuts in the text. 8vo. pp. xiii, [1 folio], 509, [1] + [26]ads. with faux-titre. Chromolithographic frontis. 3 fold-out lithographed maps (2 partly in color), 4 woodcut plates and 16 woodcut illustrations. Freshfield, together with A.W. Moore and C.Tucker of the London Alpine Club, and a Swiss guide, were the first to climb the eastern peak of Mount Elbrus (5,600 m) and the summit of Mount Kazbek (5,000 m) in 1868. Neate, 285. ALPINISM. (spine rubbed and detached, top cover detached, corners worn).