MOUNT EVEREST. – Sven HEDIN and Ferdinand Freiherr von RICHTHOFEN.

MOUNT EVEREST. – Sven HEDIN and Ferdinand Freiherr von RICHTHOFEN. Meister und Schüler. Berlin: Dietrich Reimer, 1933. First edition, signed by Sven Hedin to the upper cover, 8vo (228 x 161mm.) Text in German, newspaper obituary of Hedin pinned to the title-page, photographic portraits. (Toning.) Original card covers (crease to spine, light rubbing, finger-marked). Note: inscribed ‘To Sir Sidney Burrard, from his friend Sven Hedin’. The connection between Hedin and Burrard centred around Mount Everest. Hedin had argued that a local, indigenous name should be used for the mountain (‘Chomolungma’), while Burrard argued in a 1931 publication titled ‘Mount Everest and Its Tibetan Names’ that historical precedent mattered and that Hedin’s suggested local name was too imprecise. Provenance: Sidney Burrard, Surveyor General of India (ink inscription to upper cover).

Estimate:£50

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