Title: Yosemite: Its Wonders and Its Beauties. With Information Adapted to the Wants of Tourists about to Visit the Valley Author: Hittell John S[hertzer] Place: San Francisco Publisher: H.H. Bancroft Date: 1868 Description: 59 pp. 7¼x4½, unbound sewn sheets. First Edition. Muybridge photos and map not present. The first edition of the first guide book to Yosemite. Though sparse on original material, making liberal use of descriptions of the Yosemite region by J.D. Whitney and early tourist accounts by Samuel Bowles, Horace Greeley, Thomas Starr King and others, the book is still a landmark work as the first book intended as a guide to Yosemite to be available to the public. Howes H542; Cowan p.284; Farquhar 8. Lot Amendments Condition: Outer leaves soiled; old dampstain to first 11 leaves, occasional foxing; else very good. Item number: 182816
Title: Yosemite: Its Wonders and Its Beauties. With Information Adapted to the Wants of Tourists about to Visit the Valley Author: Hittell John S[hertzer] Place: San Francisco Publisher: H.H. Bancroft Date: 1868 Description: 59 pp. 7¼x4½, unbound sewn sheets. First Edition. Muybridge photos and map not present. The first edition of the first guide book to Yosemite. Though sparse on original material, making liberal use of descriptions of the Yosemite region by J.D. Whitney and early tourist accounts by Samuel Bowles, Horace Greeley, Thomas Starr King and others, the book is still a landmark work as the first book intended as a guide to Yosemite to be available to the public. Howes H542; Cowan p.284; Farquhar 8. Lot Amendments Condition: Outer leaves soiled; old dampstain to first 11 leaves, occasional foxing; else very good. Item number: 182816
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