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Bristol (RI): Herreshoff Manufacturing, [1935. First edition. Copy No. 9685 presented to James C. Sawyer. Folio. 53, [1] pp. Profusely illustrated throughout and with seven full page color plates of Herreshoff yachts. Publisher's decorative blue boards with raised gilt lettering. Mild sunning and light abrasion to spine but still a very good copy.Laid into this copy are two original though blank forms for the ordering of two of the firm's most successful sailboats; The Marlin and the Seafarer. James C. Sawyer was the First Curator of the Ship Model Collection of the Addison Gallery of American Art.With another copy of the same book (#627) and a copy of the 1974 edition in dust jack of Herreshoff's "The Common Sense of Yacht Design." Two volumes in one.

Fargo, Dakota: Published by F. Jay Haynes, 1887. First edition. Oblong folio (14 x 11 inches). Title and contents leaves and 25 full page photogravures, each with its original thick tissue guard. Publisher's brown cloth with beveled edges, front with elaborate lettering in gilt and red, Haynes image tipped on to front cover, floral endpapers. A few of the tissue guards have some foxing. some rubbing to cloth but an exceptionally clean copy in the publisher's binding.

Minneapolis: Bloom Bros. Co., [ca. 1920]. First edition. Oblong quarto (8 x 10 1/2 inches). [62] pp. 30 full page color photographic illustrations of scenes in Yellowstone, all by Curtis and all with explanatory text within a light green floral border on the opposing versos. Publisher's string-tied olive wrappers, cover with laid down color illustration and black and gilt lettering. Bit of toning to front but, overall, a very attractive and very clean copy.Asahel Curtis, brother of Edward S. Curtis, opened a photography studio in Seattle in 1911 and employed a number of developers and colorists. He was hired by a number of local companies, organizations, and wealthy individuals to take portraits and promotional photos. In this instance, he was hired by the Northern Pacific Railway Company. It is unusual to find a Yellowstone promotional pamphlet illustrated by anyone other than Haynes.

St. Paul: Northern Pacific, (1915). Promotional brochure Octavo. 64 pp. but printed in columns so actually [32] pages. Numerous photographic illustrations throughout. At the center is a 2-page (i.e. 4-page) color map of Yellowstone, showing attractions, hotels and stagelines. Publisher's color pictorial wrappers. A very good copy.

Minneapolis: Bloom Bros. Co., [ca. 1920]. First edition. Oblong quarto (8 x 10 1/2 inches). [62] pp. 30 full page color photographic illustrations of scenes in Yellowstone, all by Curtis and all with explanatory text within a light green floral border on the opposing versos. Publisher's string-tied olive wrappers, cover with laid down color illustration and black and gilt lettering. Bit of abrasion to spine and faint crease to lower front corner but, overall, a very attractive and very clean copy.Asahel Curtis, brother of Edward S. Curtis, opened a photography studio in Seattle in 1911 and employed a number of developers and colorists. He was hired by a number of local companies, organizations, and wealthy individuals to take portraits and promotional photos. In this instance, he was hired by the Northern Pacific Railway Company.

San Francisco: Book Club of California, 1964. First edition. One of 450 copies designed and printed by Mallette Dean. Illustrated and with twelve pages of Carries journal printed in facsimile. Publisher's quarter tan linen over patterned boards, printed paper spine label, plaind dust jacket. An excellent copy.Carrie Le Conte was the daughter of Jospeh Le Conte and accompanied him and his students on their famous trip to the Yosemite in 1878. Carrie kept her own journal and it is from this that this book was formed (the journals themselves are at the Bancroft Library). As opposed to her father's famous memoir of this trip ('Ramblings in the High Sierra'), Carrie Le Conte's memoirs are those of Yosemite as seen through the eyes of a teenage girl. Included are three copies of the prospectus and a postcard invitation to see the exhibition of the Yosemite material of Francis Farquhar being put on by the Book Club to commemorate the book's publicationLaid in is an original portrait studio photograph of… Read More

Cambridge: Welch, Bigelow, & Co., 1870. First trade edition, second printing (after the limited, and prohibitively expensive, edition of 250 copies, all containing original photographs). Octavo (9 x 6 1/2 inches). 155, [1] pp. Title page printed in red and black. Illustrated with eight wood-engraved plates after photographs by Carleton Watkins, smaller woodcuts in text. Two folding maps, one in each pocket (one map is of Yosemite Valley and the other is of the area adjacent to Yosemite Valley). Publisher's green cloth, spine with elaborate gilt frame forming lettering from the cloth, front cover with a gilt map of Yosemite and rear cover with gilt emblem of the Geological Survey, brown endpapers. Minor toning to endpapers, small amount of wear to spine extremities. Minor aging to maps but still very clean and nice. A very good and clean copy of this first guidebook to Yosemite.Farquhar 7c. Currey & Kruska 61.

Washington: Department of the Interior, 1906. First edition. 27 x 25 inches, printed with color borders. This is a revised border recommendation published just a few months after the commission's original recommendation that added the Big Tree Grant (Mariposa Grove) to the park. An attractive and detailed topographic view of Yosemite National Park including roads and trails, plus dotted lines representing trails suggested for "adequate system," and water ways colored in blue. Shows portions of the surrounding Mineral Lands and Stanislaus Forest Reserve. Identifies major spots including the Big Trees of Mariposa Grove, El Capitan, Half Dome and the rest of Yosemite Valley, county lines, Hetch Hetchy Valley, etc. Fold lines (as always). An excellent copy.

Tacoma and San Francisco: John H. Williams, 1914. First edition. Tall octavo. 145, [3] pp. Illustrated throughout plus the eight full page color plates and a folding map tipped in at rear. Publisher's pictorial green wrappers with embossed gilt lettering on front. Old pencil inscription. A very good copy.

Boston: New York Graphic Society, 1979. First edition. Signed by Ansel Adams underneath the half-title (not on a bookplate). Oblong folio. 28 pp. of text and 116 photographic illustrations. Publisher's cloth with gilt spine lettering. Dust jacket with two Adams' images in very good condition. Very good.

Washington: Department of the Interior, 1906. First edition. 27 x 25 inches, printed with color borders. This is a revised border recommendation published just a few months after the commission's original recommendation that added the Big Tree Grant (Mariposa Grove) to the park. An attractive and detailed topographic view of Yosemite National Park including roads and trails, plus dotted lines representing trails suggested for "adequate system," and water ways colored in blue. Shows portions of the surrounding Mineral Lands and Stanislaus Forest Reserve. Identifies major spots including the Big Trees of Mariposa Grove, El Capitan, Half Dome and the rest of Yosemite Valley, county lines, Hetch Hetchy Valley, etc. Fold lines (as always). An excellent copy.

Berkeley: University of California Press, 1948. First edition. xii, 104 pp. With nine full page illustrations. Publisher's brown cloth over olive cloth, gilt spine lettering and brown cover lettering, salmon endpapers, dust jacket. A very good copy.

Berkeley: University of California Press, 1948. First edition. Inscribed by Farquhar and dated December, 1948. Quarto. xii, 104 pp. With nine full page illustrations. Publisher's brown cloth over olive cloth, gilt spine lettering and brown cover lettering, salmon endpapers, dust jacket (2 short tear to upper margin). A very good copy.

San Francisco: Pacific Novelty Company, [ca. 1925]. First edition in this format. Small oblong octavo ( 5 3/8 x 7 1/8 inches). 13 leaves. Title page plus twelve leaves of albertype images of scenes around Yosemite. Publisher's pictorial wrappers with ribbon tie. Original printed envelope. Envelope with a bit of wear. A pristine copy of this ephemeral piece.

San Francisco: A. M. Robertson, 1916. First edition. Small octavo. 16 pp. plus five full page photographic illustrations of Yosemite scenes by Dassonville. Publisher's plain boards with attached purple dust jacket with laid down cover illustration of the Breuer painting in color, gilt cover and spine lettering, Some light edge wear to the jacket as it was not flush with the boards. Spine lettering a bit faded. Overall, a very good copy of the fragile work.

Yosemite: D.J. Foley , [c. 1905]. First edition of this handsome view book by Yosemite photographer and guide book writer, D. J. Foley. Tall octavo. [32] ll. including an initial blank, leaf of poetry, 29 full page photographic illustrations after Foley photographs (printed on rectos only and all captioned) and a leaf with the printer's slug. The images are printed in a variety of hues. Publisher's string-tied printed wrappers. Some edge wear where text block not flush with wrapper edges, small chip to lower front tip and with a three-hole punch but overall a very good and clean copy of one of the best photographic books on Yosemite.These images have a distinctly Pictorialist feel to them in an attempt to make the Park seem more ethereal.

Yosemite: Yosemite Falls Studio, 1922. First edition. Folio. [8] pp. Stapled into original brown printed wrappers. Old glue stain to lower front wrapper else a very good copy.Daniel Foley managed the Yosemite Valley tourist office, which published a guide, a view book, and a newspaper for visitors. This is a copy of the newspaper for the date of June 27, 1922 (Vol. 7, No. 35). As with all issues, this throw-away contains and extensive list of the Park visitors of that date, information about Yosemite and ads for local businesses. For example, we learn that Cecil Leet of Detroit has begun his 9-month hike in the mountains of California; Mr. and Mrs. L. M. Lawson of Venice (CA) drove to Yosemite on their way to the Pacific Northwest, etc.

San Francisco: Taber Photo, [ca. 1880]. Original cabinet card albumen photograph depicting Yosemite Falls in the background and with a cattle fence in the foreground. On a Taber mount with his negative number (B568) and title in the lower part of the image. The verso of the mount has his advertisement and an illustration of his studio. A very good image.Judging from the fence in the photograph the picture was probably taken in the mid-1870's. There are records of fence construction in the upper Valley in 1869 and 1876. By 1880 the park commissioners were complaining about the dilapidated look of the fences in the Valley and clearly the fence in this photo is in fine shape.

New York: The Mentor Association, 1916. Complete and in the original printed green wrappers. Includes all laid in chromolithographs of Yosemite. Each chromo with abundant commentary on the verso. Some edge wear to wrappers and splitting along spines. Inserted plates in good condition. Altogether. worth owning. This is a special issue of the Mentor and it only contains the one article and the loose plates. Inner front cover with a long quotation from John Muir.

San Francisco: Pacific Novelty Company, [ca. 1925]. First edition in this format. Small oblong octavo ( 5 3/8 x 7 1/8 inches). 13 leaves. Title page plus twelve leaves of albertype images of scenes around Yosemite. Publisher's pictorial wrappers with ribbon tie. Original printed envelope. Envelope with date written in ink. A pristine copy of this ephemeral piece.