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8vo. pp. xii, 342, [1]. large folding coloured, 1 text map & 76 illus. on 52 plates. index. original cloth (rear cover rubbed, front endpapers stained, title & tissue guard browned, 2 leaves with marginal defects, else a very good tight copy). First Edition. "One of the classics of Canadian mountain exploration and climbing." (Neate) Including chapters on the ascent of Lefroy and Victoria, and the Waputhehk Ice-Field, in search of Mount Murchison, through the Pipestone and Siffleur Valleys, up the north fork of the Saskatchewan, the discovery of the Columbia Ice-Field and the first ascent of Mount Athabasca, a big-horn hunt, to the valley of the Athabasca and ascent of Diadem Peak, Thompson Peak and the Selkirks, Bush River, to the head of the Bush Valley, camp on Goat Peak, Bear Creek, Mount Murchison and Mount Freshfield, Mount Forbes and Howse Peak, Glacier Lake and the Lyell Ice-Field, Moraine Lake and the Ten Peaks, and sport and game in the Rockies. Edwards & Lort 3407. Lowther 1519. Neate 769. Smith 10002.…