Apr 16, 2013 - Sale 2310

Sale 2310 - Lot 59

Price Realized: $ 2,160
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,500 - $ 2,500
(CALIFORNIA.) Brown, John Henry. Reminiscences and Incidents of "The Early Days" of San Francisco. Folding plan. 8vo, publisher's maroon cloth gilt, minor wear; short closed tear and minor wear to map, hinges splitting, but otherwise nice internally. In modern 1/4 morocco slipcase. San Francisco, [1886]

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first edition. "John Henry Brown was a fur trader, bartender, citizen-soldier, hotel builder, capitalist, man of affairs, and author. A prominent figure in San Francisco in the early days, 1846-1850, Brown observed and was told of many happenings there. He met many men, both the great and the near great. His reminiscences fill in many of the gaps in the early history of San Francisco"--Zamorano Eighty 10. Cowan 1933 page 77; Graff 429; Howes B853 ("b"); Kurutz 88a; Streeter sale V:2999; Wheat, Gold Rush 23.