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Author: King, Clarence
Title: Mountaineering in the Sierra Nevada
Place Published: Boston
Publisher:Ticknor
Date Published: [1874 or later]
Description:

[2], v, [2], 308 pp. With 2 folding color maps. (8vo) original green cloth, spine lettered in gilt. Ninth Edition (so stated).

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 12; Graff 2329; Howes K148; Zamorano Eighty 47).

A little rubbing to spine ends and corners; very good or better.