(CALIFORNIA) Kneeland Samuel The Wonders of the Yosemite Val

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(CALIFORNIA.) Kneeland, Samuel. The Wonders of the Yosemite Valley, and of California. 2 maps, 10 albumen photographs laid down as issued, text illustrations. [5]-97, [1] pages. 4to, publisher's cloth gilt, moderate wear; minor foxing to photo mounts; printed in red and black; original owner's signatures on front free endpaper and flyleaf. Boston, 1872

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Expanded third edition. This edition features the first attributed book publication of John Muir's writings, in the form of his long letter on the Yosemite glaciers, pages 90-91 (BAL 14733). The photographs are credited on the title page to John P. Soule, who never actually visited California. Cowan 1933, page 333.