The Highest Andes: A Record of the First Ascent of Aconcagua and Tupungato in Argentina, and the Exploration of the Surrounding Valleys . First Edition, 1899
by E.A. Fitz Gerald
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1899 The Highest Andes: A Record of the First Ascent of Aconcagua and Tupungato in Argentina, and the Exploration of the Surrounding Valleys . First Edition, 1899 by Edward Arthur Fitz Gerald •Methuen, London, 1899. •Hardcover. •Photographs/plates/map. •Partially unread with some uncut pages. Original red cloth bds, gilt top edge. Large folding map in the rear 'Sketch Map to Illustrate the Route of the Expedition to Aconcagua and Tupungato 1896-7'. •Book Condition: Good, some foxing, and small upper spine corner stain to 3 pages in the front, Some library marks 'Appalachian Mountain Club' stamps on the inside of the FC and first blank, and in pencil "Gift estate of Ralph Esterquest, 1969", remains of a spine sticker, slight lean. NOTE: Ralph Theodore Esterquest (1912-1968). Obit from 'The Crimson', a Harvard periodical: Ralph T. Esterquest, Harvard's Medical Librarian since 1958, died Saturday at the age of 56. For the past year, he was on a leave of absence from the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, during which time he established and organized a Washington, D.C. headquarters for the American Library Association's international office. He was scheduled to return to Harvard September 1. Esterquest was the first librarian of Countway, the largest university-owned medical library in the country.
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- Title
- The Highest Andes: A Record of the First Ascent of Aconcagua and Tupungato in Argentina, and the Exploration of the Surrounding Valleys . First Edition, 1899
- Author
- E.A. Fitz Gerald
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- No Binding
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
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- 1
- Date Published
- 1899
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