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Collezione Dell' Opere Del Cavaliere Conte Alessandro Volta Patrizio Comasco Tomo I Parte I-Ii

Le Conte, JosephBiblio.com

A Journal of Ramblings Through the High Sierras of California by the "University Excursion Party."

1875224First edition. Very good in contemporary three quarter leather. Marbled endpages. Three different ownership inscriptions on preliminary blanks. Leather corners and gutters rubbed. Firmly bound inside with clean bright pages. With only four of nine albumen photographs tipped in. Present are the first four images: Great Yosemite Fall frontis The Grizzly Giant opposite p. 27 The High Sierras p. 33 The Gates of the Valley p. 40. No evidence that other 5 plates were bound in as leaves where they should be are not present. Included photographs are fresh and bright.Rare account of a camping trip in the High Sierra undertaken by University of California professor of geology and history Joseph Le Conte in July and August 1870 accompanied by Professor Frank Soule Jr. and eight members of the student body. This was Le Conte's first trip to the Yosemite region to be followed by ten more over the next thirty years. The work is notable for the excellent photographs some featuring members of the party in the marvelous setting of Yosemite others the scenic wonders uncluttered by human presence. Farquhar speculates that the pictures were taken by "one or more of the professional photographers who operated in Yosemite Valley." There were ten members of the party and according to Joseph N. LeConte the author's son 12 copies of the book were produced for each member making a run of 120 copies in all.Cowan 1914 p.137; Farquhar 14a; Currey & Kruska 230; Howes L175. Kurutz California Books Illustrated with Original Photographs p.16 and item 27; Zamorano 64.;Cox Classics 64; Robinson High Sierra Classics 1; Rocq 16596; Eberstadt 124:38.A classic California photobook and a cornerstone of any Yosemite collection. Steeply discounted price reflects lack of five of the nine photographs. Francis & Valentine hardcover

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Collezione Dell' Opere Del Cavaliere Conte Alessandro Volta Patrizio Comasco Tomo I Parte I-Ii

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Collezione Dell' Opere Del Cavaliere Conte Alessandro Volta Patrizio Comasco Tomo Iii

Children's Guslar taken from the Russian title

Catherine Sforza / by Count Pier Desiderio Pasolini ; authorized ed. translated and prepared with the assistance of the author by Paul Sylvester

CARRARA e le sue ville - GUIDA STORICO -ARTISTICO-INDUSTRIALE seguita da brevi cenni su Luni e sue rovine; con10 illutraizioni in fototipia

BLUEBEARD. A CONTRIBUTION TO HISTORY AND FOLK-LORE. BEING THE HISTORY OF GILLED DE RETZ OF BRITTANY FRANCE WHO WAS EXECUTED AT NANTES IN 1440 AND WAS THE ORIGINAL OF BLUE-BEARD IN THE TALES OF MOTHER GOOSE.

Bible Stories or A Description of Manners and Customs Peculiar to the East Especially Explanatory of the Holy Scriptures

BATTLE OF THE MONKEY AND THE CRAB

American Entomology. A Description of the Insects of North America. Vols. I & II

American Entomology. A Description of the Insects of North America with Illustrations Drawn and Colored After Nature; Edited By John L. Le Conte M.D. Two Volume Set The Complete Writings of Thomas Say on the Entomology of North America

Afternoon Tea

A Visit to the Holy Land: The Young Jewess The Red Berries and The Twins

A Journal of Ramblings Through the High Sierras of California by the "University Excursion Party."

A Compend of Geology

19th century in France; Classes - Manners - Customs - Costumes - Inventions: Book Illustrated With a Chromotypographic Frontispiece 16 colored plates with patterns 36 Ornate Headers and Letters and 487 Engravings Including 24 from hors texte According to the Main Artists of the Century

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