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Title: In the Heart of the Sierras. The Yo Semite Valley both Historical and Descriptive: and Scenes by the Way. Big Tree Groves. The High Sierra... Author: Hutchings, J[ames] M[ason] Place: Yo Semite Valley / Oakland, CA Publisher: Old Cabin / Pacific Press Date: 1888 Description: [4], xii, 13-496 pp. Illustrated with 28 "photo-typo" plates by Britton & Rey (including frontispiece "In the Heart of the Sierras"); numerous wood-engravings, including plates after photographs and paintings; plate of a snow plant printed in red; plus 2 maps (1 folding). 9x6¼, original full morocco gilt, all edges gilt. Deluxe issue in full leather. Hutchings, a pioneer of the tourist industry in Yosemite and one of the first to visit there in winter, was Guardian to the Valley & the Mariposa Big Tree Grove from 1880-1884. According to Farquhar, In the Heart of the Sierras was Hutchings' crowning publishing achievement and "...contains a great deal more... than an account of Hutchings' personal experiences; it covers more fully than any other work of its day every aspect of Yosemite Valley and the Big Trees that could be considered of general interest to visitors." This copy with a couple of ownership signatures of Mrs Reynolds of Bozeman, Montana, one dated 1897. Cowan p.299: Currey & Kruska 175; Farquhar 18d. Lot Amendments Condition: Binding with wear at joints and edges, mild scuffing, hinges repaired; stain to top edge occasionally creeping into top margin; folding map with a long repaired tear; scattered soiling and occasional pale foxmarks, stains to pp. 132-133 and one of the wood-engraved plates; else very good. Item number: 166476