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Author: Soulé, Frank, John H. Gihon and James Nisbet
Title: The Annals of San Francisco; Containing a Summary of the History of the First Discovery, Settlement, Progress, and Present Condition of California, and a Complete History of all the Important Events Connected with Its Great City: To Which Are Added, Biographical Memoirs of Some Prominent Citizens
Place Published: New York
Publisher:D. Appleton and Company
Date Published: 1855
Description:

824 pp. Illustrated with numerous wood engravings, 6 steel-engraved plates (including frontispiece); 2 maps (1 folding). (8vo), original full black morocco, covers stamped in blind and lettered in gilt, rebacked with original spine leather laid down, spine lettered in gilt, all edges marbled. First Edition.

"A necessary reference book of San Francisco to the middle fifties, compiled mainly from newspapers and information received from pioneer citizens..." - Zamorano. Also, the work “not only gives an outstanding narrative history of San Francisco, but also supplies much information on mining and its impact on this instant city" – Kurutz. Kurutz 594; Cowan p.601; Graff 3901; Howes S769; Sabin 87268; Zamorano Eighty 70.

Light wear, hinges cracked; some foxing; very good.