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Mountaineering Sierra Nevada 1872 1st issue

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Author: King, Clarence
Title: Mountaineering in the Sierra Nevada
Place Published: Boston
Publisher:James R. Osgood
Date Published: 1872
Description:

[6], 292 pp. (8vo) 20.3x13 cm (8x5¼"), later green cloth, spine lettered in gilt, raised bands, top edge gilt. First Edition, First Issue.

First issue, with the JRO monogram on the title page, "University Press: Welch, Bigelow & Co., Cambridge" on its reverse, and "Cambridge: Electrotyped and Printed by Welch, Bigelow & Co." on the foot of p. 292. The Zamorano 80 describes the work as "A pleasing series of sketches about the Sierra Nevada, by a man who in 1879 became the first Director of the United States Geological Survey." The book is so well-written that Farquhar notes: "The lack of further words from the pen of Clarence King has been deplored by his friends and admirers as well as by the thousands who have read Mountaineering in the Sierra Nevada." Cowan p. 328; Currey & Kruska 224; Farquhar 12a; Graff 2329; Howes K148; Zamorano Eighty 47.

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Light toning and foxing; near fine.

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Mountaineering Sierra Nevada 1872 1st issue

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