Sale 591: Rare Americana & Travel, with Books & Maps from the Warren Heckrotte Collection (#591) 07/28/2016 11:00 AM PDT CLOSED!

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Lot 188 of 541:
Simpson's Narrative of a Voyage to California Ports  

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Lot closed - Sold For (Includes Buyers Premium):$120
Estimate:
$150 - $250

Title:
Narrative of a Voyage to California Ports in 1841-42, Together with Voyages to Sitka, the Sandwich Islands & Okhotsk; To Which are Added Sketches of Journeys across America, Asia, & Europe: From the Narrative of a Voyage Round the World

Author:
Simpson, George

Place:
San Francisco

Publisher:
Thomas C. Russell

Date:
1930

Description:

xxxii, 232 pp. Illustrated with 2 portraits of the author with tissue-guards; facsimiles of the title pages of the first edition and part of a holograph report (double-page) by Simpson; folding facsimile map. (8vo) tan cloth-backed blue boards, paper spine label, dust jacket. No. 90 of 250 copies.

Signed in Thomas Russell's name at the limitation. Fine printing of the California-related portions of George Simpson's "An Overland Journey Around the World," London, 1847. Howes S495.


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Condition:
Evidence of labels removed from jacket and cloth spine but no internal institutional markings. Light wear, bookplates; very good.


 
Item number:
270962a
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