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Description

Heading:
Author: Nordhoff, Charles
Title: California: For Health, Pleasure, and Residence. A Book for Travellers and Settlers
Place Published: New York
Publisher:Harper & Brothers
Date Published: 1878
Description:

[4], 11-255, [1 blank], 4 ad pp. Illustrated with frontispiece map, engravings in text. 8¾x6½ , original cloth, gilt-lettered, decoratively stamped in black.

With the same imprint and collation as the 1873 first edition. "Mr. Nordhoff 's descriptions of the natural attractions of California were considered the best of their time, and much esteemed...." Cowan p.455.

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Fine, bright copy.

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Nordhoff's California bright copy

Name: Nordhoff's California bright copy
SKU: 32239737
Price: 30 USD
Availability: InStock

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