Il Ruwenzori

H.R.H. Prince Luigi Amedeo Di Savoia
Duke of the Abruzzi

The Ruwenzori
Journey of exploration and first ascents of the highest peaks in the snowy chain located between the equatorial lakes of central Africa.

Milan, Hoepli, (1908); 25 cm, 358 pp., cloth

Monumental work published by the famous Milanese printer Hoepli, with documentation relating to one of the most significant undertakings of the Duke of Abruzzi, a detailed account of the exploratory campaign of the Ruwenzori, a mountain on the border between Congo and Uganda.
Report by Filippo De Filippi, admirably illustrated by VITTORIO SELLA, an edition dedicated to the queen mother Margherita of Savoy.
The extensive treatment, obviously impossible to summarize, includes all the preparatory phases of the mission... from the departure from Naples towards Entebbe. With appendices on the mountains of the moon of Ptolemy's geography and the Ruwenzori chain, astronomical, geodetic and meteorological observations, magnetic observations.

Beautiful edition, copiously illustrated with figures in the text and plates outside the text, plates still protected by the original tissue paper,
and also with panoramic plates (or dioramas) folded several times and still geographical maps of the region and the mountain range, folded f.t.
The work is exceptionally integrated also by the two volumes that were published separately in the following year (1909), and which report all the data relating to the scientific research carried out during the trip, that is, scientific reports, results of the observations and studies carried out on the material collected by the expedition.

Vol. 1:
Zoology - Botany

Vol. 2:
Geology - Petrography - Mineralogy

Both volumes are by different authors, the first volume of the Scientific Reports has 603 pages, and numerous illustrated plates outside the text, also in color or folded.