[Rarebooks] fa: ANDES PATAGONICOS: VIAJES DE EXPLORACION 1941 - De Agostini - Folding Maps/Plates

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Ardwight Chamberlain
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Alberto M[aria] de Agostini: Andes Patagonicos: Viajes de Exploracion a la Cordillera Patagonica Austral. Buenos Aires: [n.p.], 1941. FIRST EDITION. Small folio (29 cm) in original green linen lettered in gilt; 351 pp.; numerous photographs and maps by the author, some folding and/or tinted, additional large folding map loosely laid in.

Self-published, richly illustrated account of treks, climbs, and explorations in the Southern Andes, with a number maps and spectacular fold-out panoramic views. Father Alberto Maria de Agostini (1883-1960) was an Italian missionary as well as a passionate mountaineer, explorer, geographer, ethnographer, photographer and cinematographer. Based in Tierra del Fuego and Patagonia, he was the first person to reach several mountain peaks, glaciers and sea sounds; and discovered others, some named after him. In 1931 he, Egidio Feruglio, and the alpine mountain guides Croux and Bron, were the first to fully cross the Southern Patagonian Ice Field, journeying from Lago Viedma (Argentina) to the vicinity of the Patagonian channels of the Pacific Ocean (Chile), and back. The Alberto de Agostini National Park in the western part of Tierra del Fuego is named after him (from Wikipedia). Spine sunned and slightly rolled, light wear to the edges, inscription in German on the front free-endpaper dated 1942, else clean and sound, housed in a protective mylar jacket. Front paste-down with the bookplate of the Adventure & Exploration Collection of Steve Fossett (1944-2007), adventurer, record-holding sailor and aviator, and avid bibliophile, the first person to complete a solo nonstop circumnavigation of the globe in a balloon.