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11:00 AM PT - Feb 16th, 2012

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alaska travel exploration etchings

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Title: California and Alaska and Over the Canadian Pacific Railway
Author: Webb, William Seward
Description: 189 pp. Illustrated with 4 etchings and 88 photogravures. Full reddish-brown morocco elaborately tooled in gilt on front board, blind tooled back, gilt-lettered spine. Top edge gilt, deckle fore and bottom edges. No. 477 of 500 copies. First Edition.The views are magnificent: Yosemite Falls, Mount Shasta, Frasier Canyon, Mission of San Luis Rey, Yosemite Valley, etc. Tourville 4764; Wickersham 6481; Cowan p. 672.
Heading: Place Published: New York
Publisher: G.P. Putnam's Sons
Date Published: 1890

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Rubbing to spine ends and joints, corners and edges of boards rubbed, boards exposed at corner tips; tear to fore-edge margin of p. 129; else near fine.

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