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Bookwalter, John Wesley (1837-1915) Canyon and Crater, or Scenes in California and the Sandwich Islands.
Springfield, OH: Republic Printing Company, 1874.
First edition, octavo, frontispiece author photograph mounted opposite title, (almost completely torn away with loss to most of the author's head; mustache and chin still intact); blank between frontispiece and title torn away; illustrated with forty-eight full page wood-engraved illustrations, two text illustrations, and forty-four botanical plates; bound in original publisher's green pebbled cloth stamped in black on the boards, with a gilt-decorated spine (quite worn, front board detached); the first 105 pages are about the author's travels in California and Utah, including illustrations of Salt Lake City, the Mormon Tabernacle; with California images depicting various locations in Yosemite valley, including "mammoth trees," a dance party on a stump of a giant sequoia, and El Capitan; the section on Hawaii begins with an account of the sea voyage from San Francisco and occupies pages 106 through 369, also illustrated with maps of the islands, and images of everyday life in Hawaii, including making poi, a grass hut, taking a sulfur bath, "surf bathing," and geologic features, including the lake of fire, lava fields, volcanoes, and more; 8 3/4 x 5 3/4 in.
