Mountain Exploration (caption and cover title); Read before the Geographical Club, December 9, 1892.
Philadelphia, (PA): Geographical Club of Philadelphia, January, 1893. First edition, Bulletin of the Geographical Club of Philadelphia, Vol. I, no. 1, a separate. 8vo. 35 pp. Four plates from paintings and sketches by the author. On the importance, pleasures, and difficulties of the sport. Inscribed on a front endpaper by the author to Professor Emory R. Johnson in 1895; the author (1856-1927) was a Philadelphia lawyer, artist and mountaineer, Johnson (1864-1950), an economics professor at the U. of Pennsylvania and head of the Wharton School, 1919-1933. Not in Neate. Very good. Original gilt-stamped rust cloth (a little bubbled along the lower edge), floral endpapers. (8800). Item #61875
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