[6], 292 pp. 20.8x13 cm (8¼x5¼"), original blue cloth lettered and decoratively stamped in gilt with a black border, all edges gilt.
There were two English editions of 1872, both with the same imprint and date and just slightly different collation, but one made from the American sheets, and the other printed in England. The Zamorano 80 describes the work as "A pleasing series of sketches about the Sierra Nevada, by a man who in 1879 became the first Director of the United States Geological Survey." The book is so well-written that Farquhar notes: "The lack of further words from the pen of Clarence King has been deplored by his friends and admirers as well as by the thousands who have read Mountaineering in the Sierra Nevada." Howes K148; Zamorano Eighty 47.
