In the Heart of the Sierras. The Yo Semite Valley, both Historical and Descriptive...
Yo Semite Valley [and] Oakland, Cal. At Old Cabin [and] Pacific Press Publishing, 1888.
Early reprint (first published 1886). 8vo, pp. xii, 496, extensively illustrated with wood engravings and phototypes, two maps (one folding). Publisher's ochre pictorial cloth with decoration in brown and gilt. Corners lightly bumped and rubbed, small indent to fore edge of front board, spine lettering a bit faded (but fully legible), internally clean and sound. Very good.
Currey & Kruska (175) describe this as Hutchings' "most ambitious literary undertaking," noting that "It covers, more fully than any other work of the period, every aspect of the Yosemite Valley and the big trees that could be considered of general interest to visitors. The work is an important primary source for information on the early human history of the region. Hutchings is still considered an authority on early climbs in Yosemite and his accounts of these ascents are of great value." Farquhar (18) comments that "the illustrations are the finest that could be procured at the time."
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