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[COLORADO]. Pair of First Editions on Mountaineering in Colorado, including: CHAPIN, Frederick H. (1852-1900). Mountaineering in Colorado. The Peaks About Estes Park. Boston: Appalachian Mountain Club, 1889. 8vo. Illustrated with 11 inserted photographic plates and numerous intertextual photos. 168 pp. Beautifully bound to style in modern full dark brown morocco, boards paneled in blind, spine ruled and tooled in blind and lettered in gilt, five raised bands, gilt board edges and turn-ins, marbled endleaves (spine a bit sunned, minor rubbing to binding, ffep. nearly detached, minor occasional foxing in text). Near fine. FIRST EDITION, INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR/PHOTOGRAPHER ON THE FIRST BLANK: “Jeanie J. W. Thacher from F. H. Chapin. Feb. 14, 1890." And: BOWLES, Samuel (1826-1878). The Switzerland of America. A Summer Vacation in the Parks and Mountains of Colorado. Springfield, Mass.: Samuel Bowles & Company…., 1869. 12mo. 166, [6, ads], [2, blank] pp. Publishers full brown cloth, boards ruled in blind, front board and spine stamped in gilt, yellow endleaves (mild rubbing to binding, endleaves age-soiled, neat pencil markings on endleaves, text a bit toned). Near fine. FIRST EDITION OF THIS EARLY TRAVEL BOOK. This book relates Bowles' travels to Denver, the mountains, an Indian scare, and mines.