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Seventy-Five Years in California

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Title: Seventy-Five Years in California
Author: Davis, William Heath
Description: Edited & with historical foreword & index by Douglas S. Watson. Illustrated from numerous facsimile letters, reproductions of engravings, photographs, etc.; folding facsimile of the California Star, March 15th, 1848 (1st local mention of gold discovery) tipped-in at back. (Large 8vo), blue cloth, gilt seal of California on front cover, spine lettered in gilt. 1 of 2250 copies, printed at the Lakeside Press. Second Edition.Tipped-in at the front are a typed copy of Davis' will and a receipt for knives purchased by Davis from G. Bloomey, dated Yerba Buena Feby. 11, 1847. First published in 1889 as Sixty Years in California, with textual additions & numerous new illustrations & facsimiles. Howes notes the work as "Most valuable California reminiscences." Adams Herd 659; Cowan p.160; Graff 1020; Howes D136; Kurutz 170b; Zamorano Eighty 27.
Heading: Place Published: San Francisco
Publisher: John Howell
Date Published: 1929