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Title: Spanish Missions California: A Portfolio of Etchings Author: Scammon, L[aurence] N. Place: San Francisco Publisher: Jean Chambers Moore Date: 1926 Description: 10 etchings on tissue, each tipped into printed folio, as issued; set along with title folio in vellum folder backed with blue silk, 40x28 cm. (15½x11". No. A6 of 10 copies, from a total run of 400 copies, the letterpress printed by the Grabhorn Press. Rare deluxe issue of this famous series of etchings. Each of the etchings signed by Scammon in pencil beneath the image; signed by Scammon and Moore on the limitation-page. The etchings are of the first ten of the California missions, including San Carlos de Borromeo, San Diego de Alcala, San Antonio de Padua, San Gabriel, San Luis Obispo de Tolosa, San Francisco de Asis [Dolores], etc. Cowan p.570. Lot Amendments Condition: Folder spine worn and repaired, a little discoloration to vellum; the etchings spine spots in top margins were tipped into the folios; very good, internally very clean. Item number: 256699