Biennial report of the Commissioners to Manage the Yosemite Valley and the Mariposa Big Tree Grove. For the years 1897-98. Sacramento: A. J. Johnston, Superintendent State Printing, 1899. 22.6x14.7 cm, pp. [1-5] 6-16 [17-19] 20-29 [30-32: blank], original blue wrappers printed in black, stapled. First edition. The seventeenth of nineteen reports prepared by the Yosemite Commissioners. These reports, with some variation in titles and printer's imprints, were printed biennially (save for the 1880 report) through 1904, except for the years 1899/1900, for which no report was published. In 1906 the federal government took back the grant and no report was issued for 1905/1906. For a checklist of the reports see Farquhar (1948), title 23. Currey and Kruska 34. Farquhar 23. Wrappers lightly chipped at spine ends, a very good copy. (#168023).
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