Eight Vintage Photos. Everest [1921]

THE FIRST ASSAULT ON EVEREST ORIGINAL PHOTOGRAPHS

HOWARD-BURY (CHARLES KENNETH)

Mount Everest, the Reconnaissance, 1921,

photogravure frontispiece, 32 photographic plates, 3 folding maps at rear, order form for ‘Photographs from the Mount Everest Expedition’ loosely inserted, 1922.

BRUCE (CHARLES GRANVILLE)

The Assault on Mount Everest 1922,

photogravure frontispiece, 35 photographic plates, 2 folding maps at rear, 1923—

NORTON (EDWARD FELIX) The Fight for Everest: 1924,

colour frontispiece, double-page panorama and 31 plates (7 colour), large folding map at rear, 1925,

FIRST EDITIONS, some minor foxing mainly to early leaves in first 2 works, untrimmed in publisher’s uniform blue, red and green cloth respectively, lettered in gilt, large 8vo, Edward Arnold.

FINE COPIES OF THE OFFICIAL ACCOUNTS OF THE FIRST THREE OFFICIAL EXPEDITIONS TO MOUNT EVEREST, THE THIRD WITH DISTINGUISHED MOUNTAINEERING PROVENANCE.

Provenance: First work, Henry Walker, Leeds, bookseller’s ticket on front free endpaper; F.H. Benson, Roundhay, ownership inscription dated 12 May 1922 on front paste-down; Third work, R

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EIGHT ORIGINAL PHOTOGRAPHS OF THE FIRST ASSAULT ON EVEREST

HOWARD-BURY (CHARLES KENNETH)
Eight Vintage Photos. Everest [1921]

Howard-Bury, D.S.O, (Lieutenant-Colonel C.K.)
Vintage photographs from the First Assault on Everest.

Group 1
Everest Expedition Team (photographers) No. 1 – Pethang-Tse 56 x 43 cm. No. 2 – Everest Snow Peaks 56 x 43.3 cm. No. 14 – North-East of Mount Everest and Chang La from Lhakpa La 44.5 x 54.5 cm. Three carbon prints, each with Copyright Mt. Everest Committee stamped in margin, titled and numbered in pencil on verso
In his diary entry for September 19, 1921, Howard-Bury wrote “A couple of hundred feet below the camp was a big white glacier which descended from the Lhakpa La. The day was gloriously fine, and we obtained magnificent views of Mount Everest”.
Group 2
Charles Kenneth Howard-Bury and others (photographers) No. 3 – Chomolhari from the South 56 x 43.2 cm. No. 5 – Makalu and Chomolonzo 44.3 x 54.5 cm. No. 8 – Makalu from 21,500 foot peak on ridge south of Kama-chu 47 x 57.6 cm. Three carbon prints, each with Copyright Mt. Everest Committee stamped in margin, titled and numbered in pencil on verso
Diary note May 31, 1921, “I thought it would be a good thing to try and get some photos of Chomolhari, so taking a couple of ponies I started off with camera and rifle…I rode through a delightful valley full of dwarf rhododendron and various little primulas, until I reached…17,500 feet whence I had a lovely view of Chomolhari and over the sunny peaks of Bhutan…”
Group 3
Charles Kenneth Howard-Bury (photographer) No. 11 – The Abbot of Shekar Chote 58.5 x 45.8 cm.Carbon print, with Copyright Mt. Everest Committee stamped in margin, titled and numbered in pencil on verso Diary entry for June 17, 1921 “We went in to see the Head Lama, an old man of 72 who had lived 66 years in this monastery. He had only one tooth left in his mouth but for all that he had a very pleasant smile…The other monks induced him to have his photograph taken and beautiful robes and brocades were brought out for the occasion. He was absolutely like a child, very bashful, yet longing to be taken.”
Group 4
Charles Kenneth Howard-Bury (photographer) No. 10 – The Dzongpen of Kharta and his wife 44.5 x 54.5Carbon print, with Copyright Mt. Everest Committee stamped in margin, titled and numbered in pencil on verso Diary entry July 31, 1921, “After lunch I took a photo of the Jongpen and his young wife who had a very elaborate head dress of coral and pearls with masses of false hair on either side of her head. It was rather becoming.”