Hittell's History of California
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Author: Hittell, Theodore H.
Title: History of California
Place Published: San Francisco
Publisher:Pacific Press / N.J. Stone
Date Published: 1885 & 1898
Description:
Author: Hittell, Theodore H.
Title: History of California
Place Published: San Francisco
Publisher:Pacific Press / N.J. Stone
Date Published: 1885 & 1898
Description:
4 volumes. 22.8x14.5 cm (9x5¾"), period half morocco & cloth, spines lettered in gilt.
Volume 1 and 2 are first edition, published in 1885; Volumes 3 and 4 were first published in 1897, and this is the second printing of those volumes. "By a capable historian who used, for the Spanish period, documents since destroyed" - Howes. Cowan calls it "The best history of California within reasonable proportions. The accuracy of its author is well known, and the individual who inclines to history will find it readable...." Cowan p.285; Howes H544; Zamorano 80, 43.
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Some scuffing to joints and extremities, the cloth possibly renewed on the fourth volume; very good.
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