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viii, [2], 384 + 24 ad pp. plus 2 pp ad insert preceding frontispiece. Illustrated with frontispiece, illustrated plates and folding map at rear. (8vo) gray cloth decorated in brown, silver and blue. First Edition.

This is a presentation copy, with an inscription to the author's sister at top of title page: "Eleanora Grant with love from the author."  "Eleanor Grant" is written in contemporary pen on the front paste-down page, bookplate of  John Patrick Ford affixed to front free endpaper. An important Yosemite work. Constance Frederica “Eka” Gordon-Cumming was a prolific travel writer and landscape painter who traveled the world and painted over a thousand watercolors. In 1879 she traveled to Hawaii and was among the first artists to paint the active volcanoes. She received much criticism from male writers of the era, perhaps because she did not fit in the traditional Victorian role of women, as she often traveled alone and unaided.