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Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott & Co, 1860. First edition. Hardcover. Spine head and foot lightly edge-frayed; board corners partly worn, exposing boards ; light foxing; small damp (?) stain to first 3-4 pages; else overall Very Good+ tight copy.. Octavo in dark black-brown cloth; xii, 632 p. 19 cm. Contains a 12-page " Word to the Subscribers of The Mountain" ; followed by four pages of quotes (Oken, George Herbert, Montaigne, Robert Smith, Bhagavad Vita and Thoreau) ; a 53-page Prolegomenon by the author ; a ten-page table of contents ; four more pages of quotes ; and finally "Book One" with the chapters: Geology of the Alleghany Mountain ; Soil ; Waters of the Mountain ; Flora of the Mountain, Animal Life of the Mountain ; Climate of the Mountain ; and Book Two: Aesculapius, comprising the chapters: Significance of the Alleghany Mountains as the Site of a Sanitarium, or Retreat for the Sick, Arranged By Infinite Wisdom - Doctoral Uses of the Mountain; Hygea; Book Three, Antaeus the Giant: Mountain… Read More

Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott & Co, 1860. Hardcover. Green cloth. Covers slightly rubbed; spine and corners somewhat worn. Former library copy with the usual markings. Foxing scattered throughout text; otherwise clean and tight. A good copy.

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Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott, 1860. Second edition ("specimen" portions were published in a 215 page edition in 1858). 8vo. 632 pp. Expansive treatise on the mineral waters of the Allegheny Mountains. Sabin 35453 (for the 1858 edition). Original brown cloth (rubbed, spine ends a little frayed); pencil notes on endpapers, but a good solid copy.