HUDSON, Charles & Edward Shirley KENNEDY. Where there's a Will there's a Way: an ascent of Mont Blanc by a new route and without guides, London: Longmans, 1856, 8°, FIRST EDITION, lithographed frontispiece, hand-coloured folding engraved map, 24pp. publisher's catalogue bound in at end, original blue embossed cloth (spine torn and repaired, inner joints weak); and a second copy bound in later half calf (lacking frontispiece, map repaired). (2)

细节

HUDSON, Charles & Edward Shirley KENNEDY. Where there's a Will there's a Way: an ascent of Mont Blanc by a new route and without guides, London: Longmans, 1856, 8°, FIRST EDITION, lithographed frontispiece, hand-coloured folding engraved map, 24pp. publisher's catalogue bound in at end, original blue embossed cloth (spine torn and repaired, inner joints weak); and a second copy bound in later half calf (lacking frontispiece, map repaired). (2)

拍品专文

The Rev. Charles Hudson was the first person to ascend Mont Blanc without a guide and the first to reach the highest point of Monte Rosa.