MUIR, John.
Our National Parks.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1902.
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“To make room for wandering is it, that the world was made so wide": First Edition of John Muir's Our National Parks; with an Autograph Quotation Signed by Muir
First edition, early printing of John Muir’s classic celebration of the American wilderness, with an autograph quotation signed by Muir tipped in. Octavo, original gilt pictorial cloth, top edge gilt, with a tissue-guarded frontispiece engraving of the sequoias of the Mariposa Grove, a folding map, and eleven plates; this is the fourth printing, with the date updated to 1902. Tipped in before the preface is an autograph quotation signed by Muir, “To make room for wandering is it, that the world was made so wide. John Muir, Martinez, California, Feb. 1, 1902.” With an early gift inscription on the front flyleaf and, later, in the Clifford H. Lyman collection and given in 1927 to the Forbes Library of Northampton, Massachusetts, bearing its bookplate to the front pastedown, a perforated stamp and inked date stamp, minimal wear. A handsome example, most desirable with Muir’s signed quotation. BAL 14752; Kimes 237.
Our National Parks, published in 1901, gathers the essays John Muir wrote for the Atlantic Monthly urging Americans to know and to protect their wild places, with a chapter on Yellowstone and, above all, chapters on the Yosemite and its giant sequoias. The book was among the most influential works of the early conservation movement, and it helped move President Theodore Roosevelt to seek out Muir for the celebrated 1903 camping trip through Yosemite that shaped the president’s conservation policy and the future of the national parks. John Muir (1838-1914), the Scottish-born naturalist known as the Father of the National Parks, was the founder and first president of the Sierra Club and the most eloquent advocate for wilderness in American history.
Our National Parks.
$7,500.00
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