1. VITTORIO SELLA. Gabelhorn, Alphubel, Rimpfischhorn, c. 1879-1892, Sella number AVI 401. 11.1x14.7" collodion print, printed c. 1893, mounted on 12.2x16.8" gray board. Inscribed in ink on mount recto: Alps / 401 / Grabelhorn, Alphubel, Rimpfischhorn, etc. / VI; inscribed in pencil: Swiss Alps. Print recto embossed with artist's credit stamp in bottom right corner; inscribed in ink: 401. Inscribed in pencil on mount verso: 56581 / Loan 66 / 2232 Make 4 3/4 inches high / Hold gradation in high-lights [sic].

2. VITTORIO SELLA. Weisshorn and Swiss Oberland, from the summit of Dent Blanche, 14,314 feet, c. 1879-1892, Sella number AVI 402. 11.1x15.2" collodion print, printed c. 1893, mounted on 12x16.4" brown board. Inscribed in ink on mount recto 402. / Weisshorn and Swiss Oberland, from / the summit of Dent Blanche 14314 ft; inscribed in blue pencil: AVI. Print recto embossed with artist's credit stamp in bottom right corner; inscribed in ink: 402. Stamped on mount verso: Depose / Tous Droits Reserves / V. Sella - Biella.

3. VITTORIO SELLA. View from summit of the Dom. Dent Blanche-Rothhorn, c. 1879-1892, Sella number AVI SC200. 11.2x15.6" albumen print, printed c. 1893, mounted on 16x20" gray board. Inscribed in ink on mount recto: View from summit of the Dom. Dent Blanche - Rothhorn [sic]. Print recto embossed with artist's credit stamp in bottom right corner. Inscribed in pencil on mount verso: AVI / SC2000 / (203 catalogue).

In 1893 Elizabeth Denio, an AMC member, wrote in a Club Report: "The notable events of the year in the Department of Art have been the exhibition of the Sella Collection of Alpine and Caucasian photographs, and the purchase of the same by subscription for the Club. Just as Ansel Adams grew up in Yosemite, Vittorio Sella was raised as a mountain climber and photographer in the Italian Alps.

Without doubt this collection, numbering some five hundred subjects, is one of the largest and finest ever seen in America. They differ from most mountain photographs in being largely taken from extremely high points, and in this, as in their superb technique, testify to Mr. Sella's skill both as a mountaineer and as a photographer. Several form panoramas: others are details of the upper portions of high mountains; and all combine to present a marvelous world of snow and ice, of crag and crevasse, of regions lonely, vast, and most fascinating. Old travelers quite familiar with the Alps thrill again as they see these pictures, and recall experiences in the Matterhorn, Mont Blanc, or Mont Rosa; all behold a hitherto unknown world of sublimity and beauty in the Caucasian mountains, while delighting in the infinite gradations of color, the magnificent cloud effects, the marvels of rock-structure in these perfect reproductions of Nature."

This sale of lots from this auction will directly benefit the Appalachian Mountain Club Trails Protection Fund; Conservation Research and Climate Action; and the Modernization and Preservation of the AMC Library and Archives.

1. 401 Good: Moderate wear, edge wear, scratches, spots abrasions and dirt, emulsion rubs. Mount has edge and corner wear marks and dirt.

2. 402 Very Good: Minor wear, edge wear, scratches, edge wear, spots abrasions and dirt, emulsion rubs edges. Mount has missing pieces, edge and corner wear marks and dirt.

3. SC200 F Very Good: Minor wear, edge wear, scratches, spots abrasions and dirt, emulsion rubs. Mount has edge and corner wear marks and dirt.