London: Edward Arnold & Co, 1924. First edition. Octavo. Original publisher's blue cloth lettered in gilt, dust jacket. Photogravure portrait frontispiece, 24 black and white plates after photographs, two maps (one folding). Sporadic foxing but text mostly clean, edges foxed, small ink notation to head of front free endpaper. A few marks to cloth, dust jacket a little foxed and faintly marked, spine lightly toned, with a small portion of loss to foot of front panel. Otherwise an excellent, Near Fine copy in a Very Good + jacket. A rare survival.

An important account of Karakorum mountain range, as of then largely unexplored. Visser-Hooft and her husband Philips carried out four expeditions to the range between 1922 and 1935. Jenny was occupied with documenting the local fauna, with Philips chiefly concerned the glaciology and meterology. With help, the expeditions produced accurate mapping of the region. Jenny was appointed a member of the Royal Netherlands Geographical Society and the Dutch Alpine Club, but tragically died young aged 51 in Ankara after Philips was appointed Ambassador to Turkey in 1938. Near Fine in Very Good + dust jacket. (Item #8350)