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[CALIFORNIA]. PLEASANTS, J.E. History of Orange County, California. Los Angeles and Phoenix: J.R. Finnell & Sons; Record Publishing Company, 1931. 3 volumes, royal 8vo. Illustrated from photographs. Original textured black cloth gilt (a bit of light rubbing at ends, joints tender). Provenance: John E. Corcoran (ownership stamp on pastedown). FIRST EDITION of this essential history from an early settler of the region. [With:] SOULÉ, Frank, John H. GIHON, and James NISBET The Annals of San Francisco… New York et al: D. Appleton & Company, et al, 1855. 8vo. Numerous wood engravings, steel–engraved plates including frontispiece, 2 maps (1 folding). (Spotting, large tear to folding map with loss). Original red morocco, top edge gilt (hinges cracked, several quires starting, extremes rubbed). FIRST EDITION. Howes S769; Kurutz 594; Sabin 87268; Zamorano Eighty, 70.