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PAP. Zustand: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

PAP. Zustand: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

HRD. Zustand: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

HRD. Zustand: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Zustand: New. In English.

Zustand: New. In English.

Zustand: New. In English.

Zustand: New. In English.

Zustand: New. In English.

Zustand: New. In English.

Zustand: New. In English.

Zustand: New.

Zustand: New.

Zustand: New.

Zustand: New.

Cloth. Zustand: Near Fine. First Edition. 422 Pp + Newspaper Facsimile (Californian, Mar. 15, 1848) At End. Gray Cloth, Gilt. Near Fine. No Marks. One Of 2250 Copies Including 2000 Of This Trade Issue. Plates, Headpieces, Facsimile Newspaper At End (illustrator).

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Sixty Years in California | A History of Events and Life in California. | William Heath Davis | Taschenbuch | 668 S. | Englisch | 2017 | hansebooks | EAN 9783337070885 | Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Hansebooks GmbH, Trakehner Weg 52, 22844 Norderstedt, gb[at]hansebooks[dot]com | Anbieter: preigu. …

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Sixty Years in California | A History of Events and Life in California | William Heath Davis | Taschenbuch | 664 S. | Englisch | 2017 | hansebooks | EAN 9783337132989 | Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Hansebooks GmbH, Trakehner Weg 52, 22844 Norderstedt, gb[at]hansebooks[dot]com | Anbieter: preigu. …

4°. Mit Front. u. 19 Tafeln. XI SS., 4 Bll., 345 SS. OLn. mit goldgepr. Rückentitel und OSchutzumschlag (Umschlag mit leichten Gebrauchsspuren). "William Heath "Kanaka" Davis, Jr. (1822 April 1909) was an early settler of San Diego, California [.] Davis was the original founder of New Town San Diego, an attempt to build a new community closer to San Diego Bay than the original Old Town San Diego, which was located below the Presidio of San Diego at the foot of a hill a mile inland. It was variously called New Town, Graytown, and "Davis's Folly". Davis believed a town closer to the waterfront would prosper and recruited José Antonio Aguirre, Miguel Pedrorena, Lt. Andrew B. Gray, and William C. Ferrell as partners in the venture. A depression in 1851 caused the venture to fail. Later, in 1867, the idea was revived by Alonzo Horton, with a new subdivision just to the east of Davis's plot, and became a success. Davis died in 1909 in San Leandro, in financial straits" (wikipedia).- Einige Lagen unaufgeschnitten, frisches Exemplar.…

Zustand: Hervorragend. Zustand: Hervorragend | Seiten: 494 | Sprache: Englisch | Produktart: Bücher | Keine Beschreibung verfügbar.

Zustand: Sehr gut. Zustand: Sehr gut | Seiten: 664 | Sprache: Englisch | Produktart: Bücher | Keine Beschreibung verfügbar.

xviii+342pp. 4to. Original cloth with printed decoration in dustwrapper, a little faded on backstrip. All else in near fine condition. With colour frontis. and plates. Edited by Harold A. Small. Limited to 2500 copies.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. 2nd Edition. Cloth, very good copy. Second edition. Zamorano Eighty 27: "A thoroughly readable account of life in Pastoral California, mainly before the American conquest.Davis came to California by sea in 1831, became a successful merchant and recorded his memories of men and events in this trustworthy book. The edition of 1929 is preferable." Herd 659: "A scarce book with chapters on the cattle industry of California." Cowan p. 160. Graff 1020. Howes D136. Libros Californianos: "The second.edition is by far the best, containing a fine index, numerous illustrations, many valuable appendices, and a comprehensive introduction by Douglas S. Watson.".…

Hardcover. 4to., (10 2/8 x 7 inches). Half-title. Chromolithographed frontispiece, 39 plates, 3 facsimiles, and one folding map. Original blue cloth, gilt, uncut. Provenance: with the bookplate of James S. Copley on the front paste-down, his sale, Sotheby's New York "Magnificent American, Historical Documents", 20th May 2011, lot 1059. First edition, limited issue, one of 2000 copies of the "Library edition", of a total of 2250 copies, including 100 copies of the "Argonaut Edition"; 50 copies of the "Author's section of Argonaut edition"; 54 copies of the "El Dorado"; 25 copies of the "Pioneer"; 20 of the "California collectors'"; and an Editorial copy, a Publisher's copy and the Presidential copy presented to Herbert Hoover.…

Zustand: Very Good. First Edition. San Francisco: John Howell, 1929. First Thus, Limited Issue of 55 extra-illustrated copies signed by the editor and publisher; this being #50; inscription to added title page from publisher John Howell signed "Uncle John." Small quarto. 422pp. Illustrations, some color. Extra-illustrated material included, complete, and highlighted below. Tan cloth over green paper-covered boards with paper title label to spine; illustrated endpapers. Lacks dust jacket. Boards show edgewear with light staining. Binding sound and pages unmarked; a Very Good example, though the extra material included is what makes this copy particularly special. A few highlights: - "Proclamation by the Mayor" broadside from E.E. Schmitz and printed by Altvater Print. Order from the San Francisco mayor in the immediate aftermath of the San Francisco Earthquake declaring that "officers have been authorized by me to KILL any and all persons found engaged in Looting or in the Commission of any other Crime." - Stock certificate from the notorious Yellow Jacket Silver Mining Co. of Gold Hill, NV, December 18, 1884. Also a canceled check drawn from the Imperial Silver Mining Co., Agency of the Bank of California, Virginia, Nevada, May 3, 1876. - Songsheet for the popular song "Lotta Lee" published by Bell & Company, ca. 1870s. - Three cancelled checks; one from D.O. Mills & Co., Bankers and made out to Levi Strauss and Co. for $500. Two other checks signed by James G. Fair and John W. Mackay, respectively, members of the famous "Bonanza Kings" or "Bonanza Firm" with one check dated the year before the four Irish-Americans would hit the mother lode and become known as the Silver Kings. - Issue of the Sacramento Daily Union August 27, 1859 - "Speech of Mr. [Daniel S.] Dickinson, of New York, on Establishing a Government for California. Delivered in the Senate in the United States, February 28, 1849." Printed by Towers. 16pp. Lengthy speech by the Senator on the formation of California as a state with an extended discourse on slavery and its history and role in American society. A rich collection of California material, neatly packaged in the San Diego merchant's memoir, itself an illuminating and detail-rich history of the period. ADAMS 659 and GRAFF 1020 (citing "Sixty Years" edition); HOWES D136. Signed.…