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[WOMEN TRAVELLERS] Three works.
Comprises PECK, ANNIE S. A Search for the Apex of America. High Mountain Climbing in Peru and Bolivia Including the Conquest of Huascaran, with some Observations on the Country and People Below. New York: Dodd, Mead and Company, [1911]. First edition. Publisher's pictorial gray cloth. 8 3/4 x 5 1/2 inches (22 x 14 cm); xx, 370 pp.; plates; together with SULLIVAN, MAY KELLOGG. A Woman who went to Alaska. James H. Earle: Boston: 1902. First edition. Publisher's blue cloth with mounted pictorial vignette on upper cover. 7 3/8 x 4 7/8 inches (18.75 x 12.5 cm); 392 pp.; and COLLIS, SEPTIMA M. A Woman's Trip to Alaska: Being an Account of a Voyage through the Inland Seas of the Sitkan Archipelago in 1890. New York: Cassell, [1890]. First edition, inscribed by Mrs. Collis on the front paste-down. Publisher's two-tone pictorial cloth. All three generally very attractive copies, corners of the boards of the last a bit bumped..
The first work is Annie Peck's first book, and a classic of the climbing literature. A feminist and suffragist, she was a formidable adventurer, primarily in South America. She was a founding member of the American Alpine Club. (3)
C The Property of a New England Family
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