HISTORY OF THE SIERRA NEVADA
by Farquhar, Francis P
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- Hardcover
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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New Haven, Connecticut, United States
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About This Item
Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press in collaboration with the Sierra Club, 1966. xiv,[2],262pp. Illustrations and maps. Frontis. Publisher's blue pictorial cloth. Bookplate (Steve Fossett) on front pastedown. Slight wear to extremities. Very good. In a slightly edgeworn dust jacket. Second printing of Farquhar's classic work on the "great snowy range" of California "from Spanish times, through the exploration of American trappers and the struggles of the overland emigrants, to the government surveys and the more intensive exploring and mountaineering of recent times" (dust jacket). Farquhar was an accomplished mountaineer, two-time president of the Sierra Club, and historian and bibliographer of the West.
This copy is from the collection of the noted adventurer and collector, Steve Fossett, the first person to fly solo nonstop around the world in a balloon and in a fixed- wing aircraft. Fossett disappeared in September 2007 during a solo flight over the Great Basin Desert, between Nevada and California. His remains were found in the Sierra Nevada mountains in November 2008
This copy is from the collection of the noted adventurer and collector, Steve Fossett, the first person to fly solo nonstop around the world in a balloon and in a fixed- wing aircraft. Fossett disappeared in September 2007 during a solo flight over the Great Basin Desert, between Nevada and California. His remains were found in the Sierra Nevada mountains in November 2008
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- Bookseller
- William Reese Company (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- WRCAM55555
- Title
- HISTORY OF THE SIERRA NEVADA
- Author
- Farquhar, Francis P
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- University of California Press in collaboration with the Sierra Club
- Place of Publication
- Berkeley and Los Angeles
- Date Published
- 1966
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With a catalogued inventory of over thirty thousand items, and a general inventory of over sixty-five thousand items, we are among the leading specialists in the fields of Americana and world travel, and maintain a large and eclectic inventory of literary first editions and antiquarian books of the 18th through 20th centuries.
We issue frequent, and substantial, catalogues in our fields of specialization, and we are equipped to produce smaller lists devoted to specific subjects with ease in response to requests.
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