Sale 2432 - Printed & Manuscript Americana, November 17, 2016

63 62 ● (CALIFORNIA.) California and New Mexico: Message from the President . . . on the Subject of California and New Mexico. 7 maps. 976 pages. 8vo, contemporary 1 / 2 calf, minor wear, joints split; minor foxing, short tape repairs to maps; early gift inscrip- tion and bookplate on front pastedown. 31st Congress, 1st Session, House Ex. Doc. 17. [Washington], 1850 [500/750] A collection of official governmental documents and correspondence on California from the eventful years 1847 to 1849 introduced by a four-page letter from Zachary Taylor. Includes the important Preuss map from Frémont’s 1848 Geographical Memoir (Wheat, Transmississippi West 559 and pages III:55-62). Cowan 1964, page 875; Howes C53;Wagner-Camp 179b:2; Zamorano Eighty 14. Provenance: gift ofWalter Booth, United States House of Representatives, to Fenner Bush. 63 ● (CALIFORNIA.) Clarke, Clinton C. Portfolio of photographs of the Sierra Nevada Mountain Range. 55 silver prints on paper, each 13 1 / 2 x 19 1 / 2 inches with pencil signature in margin and typed caption label laid down in margin; minor wear, marginal dampstaining. With detached original portfolio boards, worn, bearing typed labels and Clarke’s signature. In modern cloth folding case. [California, circa 1930s] [1,000/1,500] Clinton Churchill Clarke (1873-1957) of Pasadena was the first to propose a Pacific Crest Trail in 1932, and was instrumental in its creation. On a signed introductory label, Clarke explained that “these photographs of the Sierra Nevada were taken during seven summers tramping over the mountains, and picture all the characteristic features that make the Sierra famous, including the five great canyons, finest of the high peaks, lakes, waterfalls, forests, and a complete survey of the entire range.”