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, with its Magnificent Scenery, Ancient and Modern Glaciers, and other Objects of Interest; with Tables of Distances and Altitudes, Maps, etc.
Author: Hutchings, J[ames] M[ason]
Description: [4], xii, 13-496 pp. Illustrated with 25 (of 29) total inserted plates (all but 1 photographic), including: frontispiece photo-type by Gutekunst, portrait of Hutchings from a photograph by Houseworth, 20 phototypos by Britton & Rey from photographs by Isaiah Taber, George Fiske, S.E. Walker and others, 1 (of 2) artotypes by E. Bierstadt (of El Capitan), 1 heliotype by Heliotype Ptg. Co., 1 red plate of a snow plant; 1 map (folding lithograph map not present); plus numerous wood engravings and photos (some full-page). 8½x5¾, original decorative olive green cloth, stamped and lettered in gilt, floral-patterned endpapers, all edges gilt. First Edition, First Printing.Accepted first issue, matching all the required points, including: frontispiece photo-type by Gutekunst with no one seated behind the horse and a cabin without a lean-to; portrait of Hutchings is a "photo-typo" by Britton & Rey; the plate of Hutchings' Old Cabin is reproduced by the Heliotype Ptg. Co. of Boston; however, only one arto-type printed by E. Bierstadt (apparently lacking the plate that should face p. [470], but no evidence of removal or of it ever having been inserted by the publisher). Hutchings (1820-1902), a pioneer of the tourist industry in Yosemite and one of the first to visit there in winter, was Guardian to the Valley and the Mariposa Big Tree Grove between 1880 and 1884. "Covers more fully than any other work of its day every aspect of Yosemite Valley and the Big Trees that could by considered of general interest to visitors" – Farquhar 18a; Cowan p.299; Currey & Kruska 175.
Heading: zzc(Yosemite)Place Published: Yo Semite Valley & Oakland, CA
Publisher: The Old Cabin & Pacific Press Publishing House
Date Published: 1886
Author: Hutchings, J[ames] M[ason]
Description: [4], xii, 13-496 pp. Illustrated with 25 (of 29) total inserted plates (all but 1 photographic), including: frontispiece photo-type by Gutekunst, portrait of Hutchings from a photograph by Houseworth, 20 phototypos by Britton & Rey from photographs by Isaiah Taber, George Fiske, S.E. Walker and others, 1 (of 2) artotypes by E. Bierstadt (of El Capitan), 1 heliotype by Heliotype Ptg. Co., 1 red plate of a snow plant; 1 map (folding lithograph map not present); plus numerous wood engravings and photos (some full-page). 8½x5¾, original decorative olive green cloth, stamped and lettered in gilt, floral-patterned endpapers, all edges gilt. First Edition, First Printing.Accepted first issue, matching all the required points, including: frontispiece photo-type by Gutekunst with no one seated behind the horse and a cabin without a lean-to; portrait of Hutchings is a "photo-typo" by Britton & Rey; the plate of Hutchings' Old Cabin is reproduced by the Heliotype Ptg. Co. of Boston; however, only one arto-type printed by E. Bierstadt (apparently lacking the plate that should face p. [470], but no evidence of removal or of it ever having been inserted by the publisher). Hutchings (1820-1902), a pioneer of the tourist industry in Yosemite and one of the first to visit there in winter, was Guardian to the Valley and the Mariposa Big Tree Grove between 1880 and 1884. "Covers more fully than any other work of its day every aspect of Yosemite Valley and the Big Trees that could by considered of general interest to visitors" – Farquhar 18a; Cowan p.299; Currey & Kruska 175.
Heading: zzc(Yosemite)Place Published: Yo Semite Valley & Oakland, CA
Publisher: The Old Cabin & Pacific Press Publishing House
Date Published: 1886
Condition report
Light rubs, spine ends slightly rubbed, corners a bit bumped; lacks folding map; else a nice clean copy, seldom seen in better condition; about fine.
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