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John Erastus Lester The Yo-Semite

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Item Details

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Author: Lester, John Erastus
Title: The Yo-Semite; Its History, Its Scenery, Its Development
Place Published: Providence
Publisher:For the author
Date Published: 1873
Description:

40 pp. (8vo) original gray printed wrappers. First Edition.

This paper was read before the Rhode Island Historical Society on December 17, 1872, and was published by Lester, a prominent Providence lawyer, at the request of friends. The narrative of his trip to Yosemite Valley in the summer of 1872 included in his The Atlantic to the Pacific is his more valuable contribution to Yosemite literature. Cowan II, p. 389; Currey & Kruska 236; Farquhar 13.

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Wrappers worn and detached; good.

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John Erastus Lester The Yo-Semite

Name: John Erastus Lester The Yo-Semite
SKU: 30559616
Price: 200 USD
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