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Author: Hutchings, J. M.
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.
Place Published: Yo Semite Valley; Oakland, CA
Publisher:The Old Cabin; Pacific Press Publishing House
Date Published: 1886
Description: [4], xii, 13-496 pp. Illustrated with "photo-typo" plates by Britton & Rey (including frontispiece "In the Heart of the Sierras"), wood-engravings, folding map. 21.5x15 cm (8½x6"), pictorial olive cloth stamped in black and gilt. Second printing.Includes plates called Curry & Kruska, with list of illustrations page ix matching Issue B. Hutchings, a pioneer of the tourist industry in Yosemite and one of the first to visit there in winter, was Guardian to the Valley & the Mariposa Big Tree Grove from 1880-1884. According to Farquhar, In the Heart of the Sierras was Hutchings' crowning publishing achievement and "...contains a great deal more... than an account of Hutchings' personal experiences; it covers more fully than any other work of its day every aspect of Yosemite Valley and the Big Trees that could be considered of general interest to visitors." Cowan p.299; Currey & Kruska 175; Farquhar 18d.

Minor rubbing and staining to cloth; faint toning to text block, small stub tear to map, no paper loss; very good.