1. VITTORIO SELLA. Sicily. Small Volcano near the English House, c. 1879-1892, Sella number AXII 436. 11.2x15.3" collodion print, printed c. 1893, flush mounted on thin board, mounted on 12 1/4x 15 7/8" grey board. Inscribed in ink on mount recto: (Sicily) Small Volcano near the English House 436 I/ XII; Print recto embossed with artist's credit stamp in bottom right corner; Inscribed in blue pencil on mount verso: 436/ XII.

2. VITTORIO SELLA. Great Crater and Western Summit, c. 1879-1892, Sella number AXII 436. 11.3x15.3" collodion print, printed c. 1893, flush mounted on thin board, mounted on 12 1/8x15 7/8" grey board. Inscribed in ink on mount recto: Great Crater and Western Summit 437 XII; Print recto embossed with artist's credit stamp in bottom right corner; Inscribed in blue pencil on mount verso: 437/ XII.

3. VITTORIO SELLA. Great Crater (general view), from the north ridge, c. 1879-1892, Sella number AXII 439. 11.3x15" collodion print, printed c. 1893, flush mounted on thin board, mounted on 12 7/8x 16 1/2" grey board. Inscribed in ink on mount recto: Sicily Great Crater from the North Ridge I 439; Inscribed in pencil: illegible/ XII; Print recto embossed with artist's credit stamp in bottom right corner; Inscribed in pencil on mount verso: 439/ Loan 110 (circled).

4. VITTORIO SELLA. Sicily. Highest summit, from the lava of the year 1838, c. 1879-1892, Sella number AXII 444. 11.4x15.1" collodion print, printed c. 1893, flush mounted on thin board, mounted on 13x16 1/5" grey board. Inscribed in ink on mount recto: Etna. Highest summit, from the lava of the year 1838 444; Print recto embossed with artist's credit stamp in bottom right corner; Inscribed in pencil on mount verso: AXII 444.

Mount Etna, or Etna is an active stratovolcano on the east coast of Sicily, Italy, in the Metropolitan City of Catania, between the cities of Messina and Catania. It lies above the convergent plate margin between the African Plate and the Eurasian Plate. It is the highest active volcano in Europe outside the Caucasus and the highest peak in Italy south of the Alps with a current height of 3,326 m (10,912 ft), though this varies with summit eruptions.

Vittorio Sella (1859-1943) was the leading large-format mountaineering photographer of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, renowned for his spectacular high-altitude photographs of glacial floes, peaks, and valleys. Sella traveled the world, photographing in the European Alps, the Caucasus, Mt. Saint Elias (Alaska Yukon Border), and the Himalayan Sikkim. In the early 1900s he photographed mountains in the Africa Ruwanzari and the Himalayan Karakoram.

This sale of lots from this auction will directly benefit the Appalachian Mountain Club Trails Protection Fund; Conservation Research and Climate Action; and the Modernization and Preservation of the AMC Library and Archives.

The prints in this lot like hundreds of others were in many exhibitions sponsored by the AMC in the 1890s and the prints suffered damage. Thus, these exhibition prints are being offered here at bargain prices.

1. 436 433 Good: Mild wear, spots, abrasions, scratches and is dirt. Mount has dirt, marks tears, edge and corner wear.

2. 437 Very Good: Mild wear, scratches spots, abrasions, dirt. Mount has dirt, marks tears, edge and corner wear.
3. 439 Good: Mild wear, spots, abrasions, scratches and is dirty. Mount has dirt, marks tears, edge and corner wear. 5/8x1/8" of top layer of print missing from upper L corner.
4. 444 Good: Mild wear, spots, abrasions, scratches and is dirty corner and edge wear and abrasions. Mount has dirt, marks tears, edge and corner wear.