Title: Heraldry of New Helvetia: With Thirty-two Cattle Brands and Ear Marks Reproduced from the Original Certificates Issued at Sutter's Fort Author: Hall, Caroll D. Place: San Francisco Publisher: Book Club of California Date: 1945 Description: Illustrated with 32 facsimile cattle brand certificates. 10½x7, half calf & cloth, stamped brand on front, white stamped stars on covers over leather. 1 of 250 copies printed by The L-D Allen Press. Includes a binder's sample copy volume, (pages blank) binding nearly the same excepting a different title font on spine and blind-stamped flower designs on covers over leather (instead of white stars). With bookplate of D. Stephen Covey. "...a book on an important and little known phase of early California...one of the Club's publications most difficult to find" (Magee). Adams Herd 971; Allen Press Biblio. 4. Together, 2 volumes. Lot Amendments Condition: Leather a bit rubbed, spines slightly sunned, other light wear; still both near fine. Item number: 191462
Title: Heraldry of New Helvetia: With Thirty-two Cattle Brands and Ear Marks Reproduced from the Original Certificates Issued at Sutter's Fort Author: Hall, Caroll D. Place: San Francisco Publisher: Book Club of California Date: 1945 Description: Illustrated with 32 facsimile cattle brand certificates. 10½x7, half calf & cloth, stamped brand on front, white stamped stars on covers over leather. 1 of 250 copies printed by The L-D Allen Press. Includes a binder's sample copy volume, (pages blank) binding nearly the same excepting a different title font on spine and blind-stamped flower designs on covers over leather (instead of white stars). With bookplate of D. Stephen Covey. "...a book on an important and little known phase of early California...one of the Club's publications most difficult to find" (Magee). Adams Herd 971; Allen Press Biblio. 4. Together, 2 volumes. Lot Amendments Condition: Leather a bit rubbed, spines slightly sunned, other light wear; still both near fine. Item number: 191462
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