Mountain Exploration caption and cover title ; Read before the Geographical Club, December 9, 1892

by Edwin Swift Balch

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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

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