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Americana - Travel & Exploration - Maps
1:00 PM PT - Nov 6th, 2008

 

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F.W. Beechey's California Voyage Grabhorn Press

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Title: An Account of a Visit to California 1826-'27.
Author: Beechey, F[rederick] W[illiam]
Description: Introduction by Edith M. Coulter. Illustrated with 4 color reproductions of watercolors by William Smyth and one map of the San Francisco Bay by F.W. Beechey. 12½x9, vellum-backed red cloth, spine lettered in gilt. One of 350 copies printed by the Grabhorn Press.Inscribed on front free endpaper: "For Gabriela Temple from Ed Grabhorn." Prospectus laid in. "Interesting account of Monterey and San Francisco before the American Conquest..." - Howes B309.
Heading: Place Published: San Francisco
Publisher: Book Club of California
Date Published: [1941]

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Vellum lightly soiled, light rubbing to cloth, lower corners slightly bumped, glue residue on the front pastedown from two removed, but present, bookplates; else very good.

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