Filippi (Filippo de). Storia della spedizione scientifica italiana nel Himàlaia Caracorùm e Turkestàn Cinese (1913-1914). Bologna, Zanichelli, 1924. In-4°, publisher's cream boards, title label on spine. First edition of this account of an important Italian expedition, essentially scientific in nature, to the mountainous regions on the borders of India, Pakistan and Tibet (Karakoram and East Turkistan). Illustrated with 31 hors-texte plates, including 2 watercolours by J.A. Sprangher reproduced in colour and some fold-outs, 288 illustrations in the text, and in a pocket at the end of the volume, 9 panoramas on 5 fold-outs and 3 fold-out maps. Ex-dono dated 1924 on title page. A fine and uncommon work. Perret, 1658 - Yakushi F 55a - Neate F 25 (English edition)