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(CALIFORNIA.) Kneeland, Samuel. The Wonders of the Yosemite Valley, and of California. 10 albumen photographs laid down as issued, text illustrations. [5]-71 pages. 4to, publisher's cloth gilt, minor fading and wear; minimal foxing; printed in red and black; lengthy inscription to John Duff by "Dr. and Mrs. S. Kneeland" on front free endpaper. Boston, 1871
first edition. The photographs are credited on the title page to John P. Soule, who never actually visited California. He may have purchased the negatives from a California photographer, possibly Martin Mason Hazeltine or Eadweard Muybridge. Cowan 1933, page 333.
