Parmelian Prints of the High Sierras

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ANSEL ADAMS (1902–1984)
Parmelian Prints of the High Sierras
San Francisco: Jean Chambers Moore, 1927. Portfolio of eighteen gelatin silver prints; each signed 'A.E. Adams' in pencil with letterpress title (margin); each image approximately 6 x 8 in. (15.2 x 20.4 cm.) or inverse; each sheet 10 x 12 in. (25.4 x 30.5 cm.) or inverse; each with paper wrapper with printed title; together with printed title page, colophon, dedication to Albert M. Binder and plate list; one from an edition of 150; contained in black cloth portfolio with debossed title in gold and gold silk lining.

Provenance

Rancho Camulos Museum, Ventura County, California;
Sotheby's, New York, October 7, 1998, lot 162;
acquired from the above sale by the present owner.

Lot Essay

The plates are as follows:

Sierra Junipers
The Abode of Snow
Monolith: The Face of Half-Dome
From Glacier Point
On the Heights
A Grove of Tamarack Pine
Mount Galen Clark
Mount Clarence King
Roaring River Falls
Marion Lake
El Capitan
Banner Peak, Thousand Island Lake
Mount Brewer
Kearsarge Pinnacles
The Sentinel
Lower Paradise Valley
East Vidette
Cloud and Mountain

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