THREE DAYS ON THE WHITE MOUNTAINS; BEING THE PERILOUS ADVENTURE OF DR. B. L. BALL ON MOUNT WASHINGTON, DURING OCTOBER 25, 26, AND 27, 1855. WRITTEN

by Himself by White Mountains, Dr. Benjamin Lincoln Ball

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First edition

Boston: Published by Nathaniel Noyes, 1856. 12mo 19x11 cm , pp. 1-5 6-72, publisher's decorated red cloth stamped in gold and blind, light yellow endpapers. First edition, first printing. Attempting to summit Mount Washington during inclement weather in the autumn of 1855, Dr. Ball 1820-1859 , a dentist and world traveler from Boston, spent three days and two nights alone, lost on Mount Washington, his only

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