(CALIFORNIA) Forbes Alexander California A History of Upper

Sale 2432 - Lot 68

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(CALIFORNIA.) Forbes, Alexander. California: A History of Upper and Lower California. Folding map hand-colored in outline, 10 plates. [16], 352 pages. 8vo, modern 1/2 morocco; dampstaining to frontispiece and some other plates, repair to inner margin of title page, map lacking an 8 x 1/2 inch section along right edge and laid down, general minor wear and soiling; Robert Louis Stevenson "Skerryvore" bookplate affixed to renewed front free endpaper, John Howell bookseller tag on rear pastedown. London, 1839

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first edition. "This book is of value as being the first one printed in English to relate exclusively to California"--Zamorano Eighty 38. "One of the most important upon the subject"--Cowan 1933, page 217. Graff 1377; Howes F242 ("b"); Sabin 25035.