COLLECTION NAME:
David Rumsey Historical Map Collection
Record
Short Title:
Yosemite Valley.
Obj Height cm:
40
Obj Width cm:
65
Scale 1:
31,680
Note:
Date based upon the 1869 publication date of the volume. Relief shown by hachures. Folded map in pocket. Lacks most trails; has limited Valley features and names; Merced River in Valley poorly aligned. Same content as our Image No. 5949035 from The Yosemite Book, except this lacks green overlay.
Reference:
Currey & Kruska 61; Howes W389; Cowen p699; Graff 4646; Wheat 1194; Rocq 5171.
Full Title:
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 1865. Drawn by J.T.G.
List No:
4212.018
Series No:
18
Pub Date:
1869
Pub Title:
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.
Pub Reference:
Currey & Kruska 61; Howes W389; Cowen p699; Graff 4646; Wheat 1194; Rocq 5171.
Pub Note:
First edition, first printing. One of the early and basic Yosemite books, the result of 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...", see our PubList No. 5949.000, with tipped-in 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 latitudinal and elevational 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.
Pub List No:
4212.000
Pub Maps:
2
Pub Height cm:
24
Pub Width cm:
18
Image No:
4212018
Publisher Location:
Cambridge
Publisher:
University Press
Type:
Atlas Map
State/Province:
California
County:
Mariposa County (Calif.)
Region:
Yosemite Valley
Subject:
National Parks
Publication Author:
California Geological Survey
Publication Author:
Whitney, J.D.
Pub Type:
Guide Book
Author:
California Geological Survey
Author:
King, Clarence
Author:
Gardner, J.T.
Date:
1869
Yosemite Valley.
