Feb 04, 2016 - Sale 2404

Sale 2404 - Lot 98

Price Realized: $ 594
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Estimate: $ 400 - $ 600
(CALIFORNIA.) Group of 3 books containing early descriptions of California. Various sizes, bindings, and conditions; not collated. (GM) Vp, 1625-1741
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Carpenter. Geography Delineated. "California heretofore supposed to be a parte of the Westerne Continent, is since by a Spanish chart taken by the Hollanders, found to be a great Iland," page II:130. Oxford, 1625 Echard. The Gazeetter's, or Newsman's Interpreter. 2 volumes in one. The second volume describes California as "a vast Island of America in the S. Sea." London, 1741 [Jourdain.] Cosmographie et Pelerinage du Monde Universel. Paragraph on California, page 223. Paris, 1669.