Detail View: David Rumsey Historical Map Collection: A Portion of the Sierra Nevada adjacent to Yosemite Valley

California Geological Survey

Whitney, J.D.

Gardner, J.T.

Hoffmann, Chs. F.

1870

A Portion of the Sierra Nevada adjacent to Yosemite Valley

University Press

Cambridge

Atlas Map

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Date based upon the 1870 publication date of the volume. Relief shown by hachures. Folded map in pocket. Same content as our Image No. 4650000. Much content added to map and a little removed from 1869 edition of Guide-Book, our Image No. 4212020. A few examples of additions: "Hopkins" (by Clouds Rest), "Lake May", "Cathedral Creek" drainage, "Peregoy's", "Harden Lake", "Hite's Cove", "Hennessy's", and many roads. Among items removed: "Hog Ranch", "Wilsons", one of the routes running northeast from Tenaya Lake, and "Milk Ranch" (relabeled "Mill Ranch".

Wheat 1194.

California

Mariposa County (Calif.)

Tuolumne County (Calif.)

Sierra Nevada

Yosemite National Park

National Parks

Map of a Portion of the Sierra Nevada adjacent to Yosemite Valley, from surveys made by Chs. F. Hoffmann and J.T. Gardner, 1863 -1867. Geological Survey of California, J.D. Whitney, State Geologist. J. Bien, Lith. N.Y.

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Julius Bien

California Geological Survey

Whitney, J.D.

1870

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. 1869. (on verso) University Press: Welch, Bigelow, & Co., Cambridge.

Currey & Kruska 61; Howes W389; Cowen p699; Graff 4646; Wheat 1194.

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.

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Whitney, J.D.; Gardner, J.T.; Hoffmann, Chs. F.; California Geological Survey