Sale 678: Americana - Travel & Exploration - World History - Cartography (#678) 07/11/2019 11:00 AM PDT CLOSED!

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Lot 105 of 431:
Lights and Shades in San Francisco, 1876  

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Lot closed - Sold For (Includes Buyers Premium):$120
Estimate:
$200 - $300

Title:
Lights and Shades in San Francisco

Author:
Lloyd, B.E.

Place:
San Francisco

Publisher:
A.L. Bancroft

Date:
1876

Description:

523 pp. Illustrated with wood-engraved plates. (8vo) original green cloth decoratively lettered in gilt. First Edition.

"The author has been accused of a tendency to incline to the sensational, but his is yet the best work descriptive of the familiar and unfamiliar features of old San Francisco." Cowan p.394; Howes L404. Early ownership stamp on front free endpaper "Wm. George, Nov 29, 1879 / Grass Valley, Cal." The number 125 is written below. 


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Condition:
Rubbing with some fraying at spine ends, rubbing to edges and corners; hints of toning; very good or better.


 
Item number:
309354
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