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MUIR, John (1838-1914). The Writings of John Muir. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1916-1924.
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MUIR, John (1838-1914). The Writings of John Muir. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1916-1924.
10 volumes, 8° (219 x 150 mm). Frontispieces in each volume, numerous illustrations, a few folding maps. Contemporary brown morocco, covers with a central gilt wildflower surrounded by a triple fillet border with wild flower ornaments in the corners and floral tools on the long edges, spines in 5 compartments with 4 raised bands, gilt-lettered in 3, gilt flower ornaments in 2, edges and turn-ins gilt, green morocco doublures with gilt fillet and dot border with flower ornaments in corners, green watered silk endpapers, top edges gilt, others uncut, bound at the Riverside Press (spines lightly sunned).
LIMITED EDITION, number 17 of 750 copies of the "Manuscript Edition."
[Bound in to volume one:]
MUIR, John. Autograph manuscript, a page from the manuscript of The Mountains of California (1894). 1 page, 4to (310 x 200 mm), in ink on paper with a few pencil and ink corrections comprising 19 lines in ink, paginated "7" at top. The text describes Donner Lake and Independence Lake: "…everywhere as intensely pure as any in the highest Alps. It seems a kind of heaven to which all the dead lakes of the lowlands had come with their best beauty spiritualized. Donner Lake, rendered memorable by the terrible fate of the Donner party, is about three miles long & lies about ten miles to the north of Tahoe, at the head of a tributary of the Truckee. A few miles farther north is Lake Independence upon a tributary of the Truckee & about the same size as Donner. But by far the greater number of the high Alpine lakes are quite small, few of them exceeding a mile in length, & most of them are less than half a mile. Along the lower edge of the…" (Vol. 4 Chapter 6, "The Glacier Lakes, pp. 116 of The Mountains of California in this set).
10 volumes, 8° (219 x 150 mm). Frontispieces in each volume, numerous illustrations, a few folding maps. Contemporary brown morocco, covers with a central gilt wildflower surrounded by a triple fillet border with wild flower ornaments in the corners and floral tools on the long edges, spines in 5 compartments with 4 raised bands, gilt-lettered in 3, gilt flower ornaments in 2, edges and turn-ins gilt, green morocco doublures with gilt fillet and dot border with flower ornaments in corners, green watered silk endpapers, top edges gilt, others uncut, bound at the Riverside Press (spines lightly sunned).
LIMITED EDITION, number 17 of 750 copies of the "Manuscript Edition."
[Bound in to volume one:]
MUIR, John. Autograph manuscript, a page from the manuscript of The Mountains of California (1894). 1 page, 4to (310 x 200 mm), in ink on paper with a few pencil and ink corrections comprising 19 lines in ink, paginated "7" at top. The text describes Donner Lake and Independence Lake: "…everywhere as intensely pure as any in the highest Alps. It seems a kind of heaven to which all the dead lakes of the lowlands had come with their best beauty spiritualized. Donner Lake, rendered memorable by the terrible fate of the Donner party, is about three miles long & lies about ten miles to the north of Tahoe, at the head of a tributary of the Truckee. A few miles farther north is Lake Independence upon a tributary of the Truckee & about the same size as Donner. But by far the greater number of the high Alpine lakes are quite small, few of them exceeding a mile in length, & most of them are less than half a mile. Along the lower edge of the…" (Vol. 4 Chapter 6, "The Glacier Lakes, pp. 116 of The Mountains of California in this set).