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WILLIAM HENRY JACKSON (1843-1942)
Pike’s Peak & Garden of the Gods
*
Cathedral Spires, Garden of the Gods.
Together, 2 albumen prints,
the images measuring 8
1
/
8
x13 and 9x12
3
/
4
inches (20.6x33 and 22.9x32.4 cm.), the gilt-ruled mounts
16x20 inches (40.6x50.8 cm.), each with the title and inventory number in the negative, and the
gilt-lettered Jackson and Hayden U.S. Geological Survey of the Territories credits, on mount recto.
1871-72
[1,200/1,800]
From the Collection of Robert A.Taub.
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(CALIFORNIA.)
TheYosemite Book; A Description of theYosemiteValley and the Adjacent Region of the
Sierra Nevada, and of the Big Trees of California.
By J. D.Whitney.With 28 mounted albumen photographs, the images measuring 6
1
/
8
x8
1
/
8
inches
(15.5x20.6 cm.), and the reverse, each with a printed title on mount recto; with two folding maps,
one of the Yosemite Valley (dated 1865) and the other of the Sierras adjacent to Yosemite (dated
1863-67), the second map with the penciled notation “John Muir.” Small folio,
1
/
2
gilt-lettered
morocco, edgewear; all edges gilt.THE FIRST AND LIMITED EDITION OF 250 COPIES,THIS
COPYWITHTHE BOOKPLATE OF ALFRED SUTRO.
NewYork: Julien Bien, 1868
[9,000/12,000]
Carleton Watkins was responsible for twenty-four of the photographs and W. Harris, the survey’s
photographer, for four.According to Naef and Goldschmidt,
TheYosemite Book
was “One of the first
American books devoted entirely to photographs of landscape, this volume was made at the suggestion
of Clarence King, early patron of American photography and one ofWhitney’s assistants inYosemite.”
Alfred Sutro (1869-1945) was a longstanding member of the California Historical Society. A well-
regarded attorney, he was an important book lover and collector.
Howes W-389;
Truthful Lens,
p. 185.
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