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12 octavo volumes. Woodcut illustrations throughout. Includes:

• Hutchings' Illustrated California Magazine, Vol. 1: July, 1856, to June, 1857. viii, 576 pp. Half morocco and boards, gilt spine; marbled endpapers. With partially obliterated presentation inscription on front free endpaper. Wear and rubbing to boards; front free endpaper detached and laid in; toning, scattered foxing; good or better. 1857.
• 11 individual issues: Volume 1, Numbers. 12 and 14; Volume 2, Numbers 3, 5-12.  A few with wrappers, most disbound. [1857-58].

A gathering of early issues of this important and influential San Francisco based periodical. The literature, scenery, and history of California in the early days come alive in Hutchings' widely-read monthly.

Hutchings' California Magazine began publication in 1856 and ran for five years. Farquhar notes "...in the pages of his magazine there is preserved a good deal of material depicting the life and scenes of California in the decade following the Gold Rush -material notably lacking in Bancroft's works,- especially with respect to Yosemite, the Big Trees, and other scenic wonders...in 1860 [Hutchings] gathered together extracts from his magazine and published them in book form...Scenes of Wonder and Curiosity in California..."