L. W. Currey, Inc.

SOUTHERN PACIFIC COMPANY. California and the Pacific Coast for the tourist[.] The charm of "the land of sunshine" by summit, sea and shore. San Francisco, California: Published by the Southern Pacific, 1914. 24x16.5 cm, pp. [1-2] 3-143 [144: ad], illustrations from photographs, eleven maps including two birdseye views (Yosemite Valley and the coast from San Francisco to Monterey), original pictorial four-color pictorial wrappers, side stapled. First edition. An elaborate guide prepared to promote travel to the Pacific Coast issued shortly before the opening of the 1915 Panama-Pacific International Exhibition. Includes considerable coverage of tourist destinations in the Sierra Nevada, "The Lake Tahoe Region," pp. 23-[33], with illustrations and map; "Yosemite National Park," pp, [36]-45, with illustrations and birdseye map and key; "The Kings and Kern Rivers Region: The Groves of Big Trees and Canyons of the Rivers of the High Sierras," pp. 45-50, with illustrations and map; and "The Sequoias of the Sierra, pp. 51-54, with one illustration. Wrappers worn along spine folds, a very good copy. (#166873).