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 Date: 1855 Description: 824 pp. Illustrated with numerous wood engravings, 6 steel-engraved plates (including frontispiece); 2 maps (1 folding). (8vo) later brown morocco-backed marbled boards. First Edition. A necessary reference book of San Francisco to the middle fifties, compiled mainly from newspapers and information received from pioneer citizens..." - Zamorano. 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 594; Cowan p.601; Graff 3901; Howes S769; Sabin 87268; Zamorano 70. Lot Amendments Condition: Binding rubbed, hinges cracked; long tear to folding map; good. Item number: 220881
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 Date: 1855 Description: 824 pp. Illustrated with numerous wood engravings, 6 steel-engraved plates (including frontispiece); 2 maps (1 folding). (8vo) later brown morocco-backed marbled boards. First Edition. A necessary reference book of San Francisco to the middle fifties, compiled mainly from newspapers and information received from pioneer citizens..." - Zamorano. 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 594; Cowan p.601; Graff 3901; Howes S769; Sabin 87268; Zamorano 70. Lot Amendments Condition: Binding rubbed, hinges cracked; long tear to folding map; good. Item number: 220881
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