Sale 638: Americana - Travel & Exploration - World History - Cartography (#638) 03/22/2018 11:00 AM PDT CLOSED!

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Lot 32 of 435:
Beechey's Visit to California in 1826-27  

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Lot closed - Sold For (Includes Buyers Premium):$204
Estimate:
$200 - $300

Title:
An Account of a Visit to California 1826-'27

Author:
Beechey, Frederick William

Place:
San Francisco

Publisher:
Book Club of California

Date:
[1941]

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. (4to) 33x24cm (12.75x9.75"), vellum-backed red cloth, spine gilt. One of 350 copies printed by the Grabhorn Press.

There were also copies bound in linen-backed patterned boards, priority undetermined. "Interesting account of Monterey and San Francisco before the American Conquest..." - Howes B309; Grabhorn 354; BCC 60.


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Condition:
Light wear to vellum, light sun shadow to front cloth; offsetting to rear endpapers; near fine.


 
Item number:
291003
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