(#166054) Hutchings' tourist's guide to the Yo Semite Valley and the Big Tree groves for the spring and summer of 1877. JAMES MASON HUTCHINGS.

Hutchings' tourist's guide to the Yo Semite Valley and the Big Tree groves for the spring and summer of 1877. San Francisco: A Roman & Co. No. 11 Montgomery Street, Lick House Block, [1877]. 16.3x11.6 cm, pp. [1-2] [1-3] 4-102, frontispiece, inserted map, original decorated black cloth, front and rear panels stamped in blind, front panel titled in gold. First edition. A guide to Yosemite Valley and the Calaveras, Tuolumne, Merced, and Mariposa Big Tree groves. Currey and Kruska 173. A very good copy. This copy is missing the advertisement for "Hutchings' Tourist Agency for the Yo Semite Valley and the Big Tree Groves ..." printed on both sides of a single sheet of lavender paper stock tipped in on the recto of the frontispiece of most copies. Enclosed in a custom cloth box with leather spine label. This book was considered to be "scarce" when a copy was auctioned in 1923 by Anderson Galleries -- to date one of three copies to be offered at auction, one of which lacked the purple advertising insert and was passed. (#166054).

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