Title: The Yosemite Guide-Book: A Description of the Yosemite Valley and the Adjacent Region of the Sierra Nevada, and of the Big Trees of California Author: Whitney, J.D. Place: [Sacramento] Publisher: Published by the Authority of the Legislature Date: 1874 Description: 186 pp. With 4 lithographed maps, including: a 5¼x16" folding color map showing California from San Francisco to Yosemite and Mono Lake dated 1872 as frontispiece; large folding map of the Sierra Nevada adjacent to the Yosemite Valley in rear pocket; one other folding map and a single leaf map of the Hetch-Hetchy Valley 5¾x4, decorative blue-green cloth, stamped and lettered in gilt and black, all edges gilt. "New Edition, Revised and Corrected." Third Edition, first printing (third pocket edition). Later edition, without photographs, but with a slightly expanded text, of The Yosemite Book published in 1868. Two of the maps were revised for this edition, and the "Sketch of the Hetch-Hetchy Valley" was new. Currey & Kruska 61; Farquhar 7f. Provenance: John Carpenter Lot Amendments Condition: Light wear, small stain at foot of spine; old stain to folding map and a few leaves at front, mostly marginal; pocket map shows splitting at several folds and missing piece (1½x½") at corner of border; very good. Item number: 251963
Title: The Yosemite Guide-Book: A Description of the Yosemite Valley and the Adjacent Region of the Sierra Nevada, and of the Big Trees of California Author: Whitney, J.D. Place: [Sacramento] Publisher: Published by the Authority of the Legislature Date: 1874 Description: 186 pp. With 4 lithographed maps, including: a 5¼x16" folding color map showing California from San Francisco to Yosemite and Mono Lake dated 1872 as frontispiece; large folding map of the Sierra Nevada adjacent to the Yosemite Valley in rear pocket; one other folding map and a single leaf map of the Hetch-Hetchy Valley 5¾x4, decorative blue-green cloth, stamped and lettered in gilt and black, all edges gilt. "New Edition, Revised and Corrected." Third Edition, first printing (third pocket edition). Later edition, without photographs, but with a slightly expanded text, of The Yosemite Book published in 1868. Two of the maps were revised for this edition, and the "Sketch of the Hetch-Hetchy Valley" was new. Currey & Kruska 61; Farquhar 7f. Provenance: John Carpenter Lot Amendments Condition: Light wear, small stain at foot of spine; old stain to folding map and a few leaves at front, mostly marginal; pocket map shows splitting at several folds and missing piece (1½x½") at corner of border; very good. Item number: 251963
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