Title: Narrative of a Voyage to California Ports in 1841-42, Together with Voyages to Sitka, the Sandwich Islands & Okhotsk; To Which are Added Sketches of Journeys across America, Asia, & Europe: From the Narrative of a Voyage Round the World Author: Simpson, George Place San Francisco Publisher: Thomas C. Russell Date: 1930 Description: xxxii, 232 pp. Illustrated with 2 portraits of the author with tissue-guards; facsimiles of the title pages of the first edition and part of a holograph report (double-page) by Simpson; folding facsimile map. (8vo) original(?) red and blue cloth, paper spine label. From an edition of 250 copies, this copy not numbered or signed. Fine printing of the California-related portions of George Simpson's "An Overland Journey Around the World," London, 1847. Howes S495. Lot Amendments Condition: Russell's works more typically found in boards, this may be a slightly later binding. Lightly faded; near fine. Item number: 280716
Title: Narrative of a Voyage to California Ports in 1841-42, Together with Voyages to Sitka, the Sandwich Islands & Okhotsk; To Which are Added Sketches of Journeys across America, Asia, & Europe: From the Narrative of a Voyage Round the World Author: Simpson, George Place San Francisco Publisher: Thomas C. Russell Date: 1930 Description: xxxii, 232 pp. Illustrated with 2 portraits of the author with tissue-guards; facsimiles of the title pages of the first edition and part of a holograph report (double-page) by Simpson; folding facsimile map. (8vo) original(?) red and blue cloth, paper spine label. From an edition of 250 copies, this copy not numbered or signed. Fine printing of the California-related portions of George Simpson's "An Overland Journey Around the World," London, 1847. Howes S495. Lot Amendments Condition: Russell's works more typically found in boards, this may be a slightly later binding. Lightly faded; near fine. Item number: 280716
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