COLLECTION NAME:
David Rumsey Historical Map Collection
Record
Author:
California Geological Survey
Author:
Whitney, J.D.
Date:
1870
Short Title:
Text: (Tipped in newspaper clipping and photograph.)
Publisher:
University Press
Publisher Location:
Cambridge
Type:
Text Page
Obj Height cm:
24
Obj Width cm:
18
Note:
Clipping discusses trees thought to be the largest. Photograph is too faded to show waterfalls. See Pub Note field below.
Reference:
Currey & Kruska 61; Howes W389; Cowen p699; Graff 4646; Wheat 1194.
Full Title:
(Text Page) (Tipped in newspaper clipping and photograph.)
List No:
5901.002
Series No:
2
Publication Author:
California Geological Survey
Publication Author:
Whitney, J.D.
Pub Date:
1870
Pub Title:
The Yosemite Guide-Book: A Description of the Yosemite Valley and the Adjacent Region of the Sierra Nevada, and of the Big Trees of California, Illustrated With Maps and Woodcuts. Geological Survey of California. J.D. Whitney, State Geologist. Published by Authority of the Legislature. 1870. (on verso) University Press: Welch, Bigelow, & Co., Cambridge.
Pub Reference:
Currey & Kruska 61; Howes W389; Cowen p699; Graff 4646; Wheat 1194.
Pub Note:
First edition, second printing. Same text and collation as first printing, our Pub List No. 4212.000, except this title page is dated 1870 and lacks "Supplementary Notice" inserted opposite page 48 in the first printing. Maps of Yosemite Valley, and the Sierra Nevada differ from first printing. One of the early and basic Yosemite books, the result of a survey begun in 1863 under the direction of Josiah Dwight Whitney, the State Geologist, with Clarence King and James T. Gardner in the surveying party, and Carleton Watkins as photographer. The two maps are: "Map of the Yosemite Valley from Surveys made by order of the Commissioners to manage the Yosemite Valley and Mariposa Big Tree Grove by C. King and J.T. Gardner," and "Map of a portion of the Sierra Nevada adjacent to the Yosemite Valley from surveys made by Chs. F. Hoffmann and J.T. Gardner, 1863-67." These maps are among the most detailed and largest scale maps published of Yosemite during this part of the 19th century, rivaled only by the Wheeler Survey map of Yosemite published in 1883. The predecessor of this book was published in quarto with the title "The Yosemite Book...", with photographs instead of woodcuts, the same two maps, in an edition of 250 (Currey & Kruska 60). Later editions changed the maps (1872) and added two more maps (1874). Text includes perhaps the earliest American discussion of life zones or belts of vegetation and habitat corresponding to climatic differences created by elevational and latitude differences, in this case in the Sierra Nevada. Whitney is also among the first to describe the remarkable inverted relief of Table Mountain in the Sierra Foothills near Yosemite.
Pub List No:
5901.000
Pub Type:
Guide Book
Pub Maps:
2
Pub Height cm:
24
Pub Width cm:
18
Image No:
5901002
Authors:
Whitney, J.D.; California Geological Survey
