C.w. mcelroy (3 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. No Dust Jacket. No dust jacket. Hardcover. ASTM Special Technical Publication 571. Ex-Library. Library label on front endpaper. Foxing on front board. One or two grubby marks on rear board. Spine ends and upper leading corners are bumped. Foxing on page block. Red markings on front pastedown. Binding is sound and pages are tight throughout. Contents are clear. AF. Ex-Library.…

pamphlet. Zustand: Good. Prompt Shipment, shipped in Boxes, Tracking PROVIDEDGood, sunned, reprinted from the Quarterly Review of Biology, Vol. 26, No. 4, December, 1951. Red Pencil: 580, Stamp: Hampton L. Carson.

Zustand: Good. Folio. 34 x 47cm. Original gilt morocco with all edges gilt, with restorations. Marbled endpapers. 478 text pages and and 120 hors text plates. 5 volumes. Stamped with the name of an original subscriber? Mrs. R. McElroy. Fine condition. OCLC Number 36006168. Very heavy.Note from the Sierra Club: Picturesque California was an 1888 elephant folio edited by John Muir, published by the J. Dewing Publishing company, featuring over 600 etchings, photogravures, and wood etchings, 700 additional illustrations in the text, and 120 tinted plates. The original work was sold by subscription and was distributed monthly in thirty parts. Muir wrote six of the articles, which we provide here:ContentsPeaks and Glaciers of the High Sierra (by John Muir)The Passes of the High Sierra (by John Muir);A Glimpse of Monterey (by J. R. Fitch);The Yosemite Valley (by John Muir);Totokonulu (poem by J. Vance Cheney);A Visit to the Lick Observatory (by Edward S. Holden);About the Bay of San Francisco (by W. C. Bartlett);Game Regions of the Upper Sacramento (by Joaquin Miller);The Heart of Southern California (by Jeanne C. Carr);Mount Shasta (by John Muir);Southernmost California (by T. S. Van Dyke);North of the Golden Gate (by Kate Field);Early California Mining and the Argonauts (by Joaquin Miller);The Santa Clara Valley and Santa Cruz Mountains (by George Hamlin Fitch);The San Joaquin Valley (by Joaquin Miller);The Foothill Region of the Northern Coast Range (by Charles Howard Shinn);The New City by the Great Sea--San Francisco (by Joaquin Miller);On the Height (poem by J. Vance Cheney);The Sacramento Valley (by John P. Irish);The Tule Region (by Charles Howard Shinn);Monterey to Ventura (by WIlliam L. Ogle);The Plain of Oaks (by Albert E. Gray);The Land of the Redwoods (by Charles Howard Shinn);Washington and the Puget Sound (by John Muir);The Basin of the Columbia River (by John ;Muir);The Canadian Rockies (by Ernest Ignersoll).Bibliographic InformationOriginally published as thirty parts, then ten, and finally as two volumes (J. Dewing and Company: 1888-1890). Reprinted as West of the Rocky Mountains (Philadelphia: Running Press, 1976). Chapters 10, 24, and 25 were reprinted in Chapters 3-5, 17-20, and 21-23, respectively, of Steep Trails.…