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Auction archive: Lot number 207

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

Estimate
US$300 - US$500
Price realised:
US$480
Auction archive: Lot number 207

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

Estimate
US$300 - US$500
Price realised:
US$480
Beschreibung:

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." 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. Lot Amendments Condition: A little wear to spine ends; front hinge cracking, frontispiece map detached, occasional light marginal pencil marks, else very good or better. Item number: 189051

Auction archive: Lot number 207
Auction:
Datum:
17 Apr 2008
Auction house:
PBA Galleries
1233 Sutter Street
San Francisco, CA 94109
United States
pba@pbagalleries.com
+1 (0)415 9892665
+1 (0)415 9891664
Beschreibung:

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." 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. Lot Amendments Condition: A little wear to spine ends; front hinge cracking, frontispiece map detached, occasional light marginal pencil marks, else very good or better. Item number: 189051

Auction archive: Lot number 207
Auction:
Datum:
17 Apr 2008
Auction house:
PBA Galleries
1233 Sutter Street
San Francisco, CA 94109
United States
pba@pbagalleries.com
+1 (0)415 9892665
+1 (0)415 9891664
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