ABBOT, Philip Stanley. Addresses at a Memorial Meeting of the Appalachian Mountain Club, October 21, 1896, and other papers.

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ABBOT, Philip Stanley. Addresses at a Memorial Meeting of the Appalachian Mountain Club, October 21, 1896, and other papers. Reprinted from "Appalachia", [Boston, Mass.], n.d. [1896].

8vo. Original printed wrappers with repairs; pp. [iii], 82; portrait frontispiece, 10 other plates; spine with wear, wrappers toned, a good copy.
First edition. This is a memorial volume for Abbot, who died on Mount Lefroy in August 1896. The booklet prints Charles E. Fay's account of Abbot's final climb, a biographical note about Abbot by George Herbert Palmer, and then reprints three of Abbot's articles ('The First Ascent of Mount Hector', 'An Ascent of the Weisshorn', and 'Three Days on the Zinal Grat').
Not in the Alpine Club Library Catalogue (1982), Neate or Perret.

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