1. VITTORIO SELLA. Weisshorn, from arete of the Weisshorn at 12,400 feet, c. 1879-1892, Sella number AVI 362. 11.4x15.2" collodion print, printed c. 1893, flush mounted on thin board, mounted on 13x16" gray board. Inscribed in ink on mount recto: Alps / Weisshorn / VI 362.; Print recto embossed with artist's credit stamp in bottom right corner; inscribed in ink on mount recto: 362.; inscribed in pencil on mount verso: 362.

2. VITTORIO SELLA. Monte Rosa, Lyskamm, and Breithorn, c. 1879-1892, Sella number AVI 363. 11.3x14.8" collodion print, printed c. 1893, flush mounted on thin board, mounted on 11.2x14.8" heavy gray board. Inscribed in ink on mount recto: 363 / AVI.; Print recto embossed with artist's credit stamp in bottom right corner.; inscribed in blue pencil on mount verso: 363 / AVI.

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.

The Weisshorn is a major peak of Switzerland and the Alps, culminating at 4,506 meters (14,783 feet) above sea level. It is part of the Pennine Alps and is located between the valleys of Anniviers and Zermatt in the canton of Valais.

Monte Rosa is a mountain massif in the Eastern part of the Pennine Alps. It is between Italy's (Piedmont and Aosta Valley) and Switzerland's (Valais). Monte Rosa is the second highest mountain in the Alps and Western Europe, after Mont Blanc.

Lyskamm, also known as Silberbast, is a mountain (4,533 m (14,872 ft)) in the Pennine Alps lying on the border between Switzerland and Italy. Despite a prominence of well over 300 meters, Lyskamm is sometimes considered to be part of the extended Monte Rosa group (in fact the Dufourspitze is only 107 metres higher). But visually Lyskamm is a huge massif, composed of two summits: the Eastern Lyskamm and the lower Western Lyskamm, separated by a 1 kilometer (0.62 mi) long ridge, both lying on the border between the Swiss canton of Valais (north) and the Italian region of the Aosta Valley (south). The Northern side of the mountain is an impressive 1,100 meters (3,600 ft) ice-covered wall, rising up from the Grenzgletscher. The gentler Southern side rises only a few hundred meters above the glacier of the same name: Lysgletscher.

1. 362 Very Good: Minor wear, edge wear, abrasions and dirt. Mount has edge and corner wear marks and dirt.

2. Good: 363 Minor wear, edge wear, abrasions and dirt. Mount has moderate edge and corner wear marks and dirt. 1 1/2" tear in upper edge of print; 2 1/2" crease in lower edge of print; print worn on upper L corner and R edge; 1/2" area of print bubbling on upper L; print fairly dirty.