* [SIERRA NEVADA]. A group of 6 works, comprising:
CHAPIN, Frederick Hastings (1852-1900). Mountaineering in Colorado: the Peaks about Estes Park. Boston: Appalachian Mountain Club, 1889. 8vo. Numerous plates and in-text illustrations. Provenance: Joseph LeConte (1823-1901) geologist, California Conservationist. A FINE ASSOCIATION COPY. -- KING, Clarence (1842-1901). Mountaineering in the Sierra Nevada. London: Sampson Low, Marston, et al, 1872. 8vo. FIRST ENGLISH EDITION. -- BISHOP, Isabella Lucy Bird (1831-1904). A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains. New York: G.P. Putnam's, 1879-80. 8vo. 7 wood-engraved plates. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION. -- HUTCHINGS, James M. (1802-1902). In the Heart of the Sierras. The Yosemite Valley... The High Sierra... and Tables of Distances and Altitudes, Maps, etc. Yosemite: The Old Cabin; and Oakland: Pacific Press Publishing, 1886. 8vo. Large folding map, numerous photogravure plates and wood-engravings. -- FARQUHAR, Francis P. (1887-1974). History of the Sierra Nevada. Berkeley: University of California Press for The Sierra Club, 1966. 8vo. Color frontispiece, 5 maps, numerous plates. With original dust jacket. Second printing. -- CLYDE, Norman (1885-1972). Rambles Through the Range of Light. 29 Essays on the Mountains. San Francisco: Scrimshaw Press, 1971. 8vo. Frontispiece, portrait, map, plates. Publisher's tan wrappers. -- All FIRST EDITIONS except where indicated, all in original publisher's cloth except where indicated, condition generally good.
Estimate $400-600