Title: The Annals of San Francisco; Containing a Summary of the History of the First Discovery, Settlement, Progress, and Present Condition of California, and a Complete History of all the Important Events Connected with Its Great City: To Which Are Added, Biographical Memoirs of Some Prominent Citizens Author: Soulé, Frank, John H. Gihon and James Nisbet Place: New York Publisher: D. Appleton & Company Date: 1855 Description: 824 pp. Illustrated with numerous wood engravings; 6 steel-engraved plates (including frontispiece); 2 maps (1 folding). (8vo) 22.7x14 cm (9x5½"), original full black morocco ruled in gilt, name "S.Jenkins" stamped in gilt on front cover, raised spine bands, all edges gilt. First Edition. A handsome copy in one of the more desirable of the several bindings in which the book was issued, of full morocco, with the original owner's name stamped in gilt on the front cover. The Zamorano 80 calls the work "A necessary reference book of San Francisco to the middle fifties, compiled mainly from newspapers and information received from pioneer citizens..." Also, the work “not only gives an outstanding narrative history of San Francisco, but also supplies much information on mining and its impact on this instant city" – Kurutz. The two maps are: "Map of San Francisco" (9.5x12.3 cm); and "General Map Showing the Countries Explored & Surveyed by the United States & Mexican Boundary Commission in the years 1850, 51, 52 & 53, under the direction of John R. Bartlett. U.S. Commissioner" (38.7x49 cm). This latter is a significant map of the American west and northern Mexico, with much detail in the regions newly wrested from the Mexican Republic. Owner's inscription on the front free endpaper, "A Son's token, New York, June 12, 1867." Provenance: Holmes 11/72 References: Kurutz 594; Cowan p.601; Graff 3901; Howes S769; Sabin 87268; Zamorano 80 #70; Wheat Transmississippi 798 for map (as issued in Bartlett's Personal Narrative, 1854). Lot Amendments Condition: Just slight rubbing to spine ends and corners; offsetting from the plates, as usual, short marginal tear to the map; near fine. Item number: 271897
Title: The Annals of San Francisco; Containing a Summary of the History of the First Discovery, Settlement, Progress, and Present Condition of California, and a Complete History of all the Important Events Connected with Its Great City: To Which Are Added, Biographical Memoirs of Some Prominent Citizens Author: Soulé, Frank, John H. Gihon and James Nisbet Place: New York Publisher: D. Appleton & Company Date: 1855 Description: 824 pp. Illustrated with numerous wood engravings; 6 steel-engraved plates (including frontispiece); 2 maps (1 folding). (8vo) 22.7x14 cm (9x5½"), original full black morocco ruled in gilt, name "S.Jenkins" stamped in gilt on front cover, raised spine bands, all edges gilt. First Edition. A handsome copy in one of the more desirable of the several bindings in which the book was issued, of full morocco, with the original owner's name stamped in gilt on the front cover. The Zamorano 80 calls the work "A necessary reference book of San Francisco to the middle fifties, compiled mainly from newspapers and information received from pioneer citizens..." Also, the work “not only gives an outstanding narrative history of San Francisco, but also supplies much information on mining and its impact on this instant city" – Kurutz. The two maps are: "Map of San Francisco" (9.5x12.3 cm); and "General Map Showing the Countries Explored & Surveyed by the United States & Mexican Boundary Commission in the years 1850, 51, 52 & 53, under the direction of John R. Bartlett. U.S. Commissioner" (38.7x49 cm). This latter is a significant map of the American west and northern Mexico, with much detail in the regions newly wrested from the Mexican Republic. Owner's inscription on the front free endpaper, "A Son's token, New York, June 12, 1867." Provenance: Holmes 11/72 References: Kurutz 594; Cowan p.601; Graff 3901; Howes S769; Sabin 87268; Zamorano 80 #70; Wheat Transmississippi 798 for map (as issued in Bartlett's Personal Narrative, 1854). Lot Amendments Condition: Just slight rubbing to spine ends and corners; offsetting from the plates, as usual, short marginal tear to the map; near fine. Item number: 271897
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