South America.- Mountaineering.- Whymper (Edward) Travels Amongst the Great Andes of the Equator, 2 vol., first edition, half-titles, frontispiece to vol. 1 only, 4 maps (3 folding), 33 plates, illustrations, spotting at beginning and end, cracked hinges, original decorative cloth, sunned spines, bumping to corners and extremities, a little rubbed, 1892-91; and a duplicate of the first volume, 8vo (3). *** "This book was the first of the few great classics of South American mountaineering literature ..." (Neate)