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 plates including frontispiece, all but one are steel-engraved portraits; 2 maps (1 folding). (8vo) 22.5x14.5 cm. (9x5½"), original black full morocco, spine lettered in gilt, covers stamped in gilt and blind, all edges gilt. First Edition. Howes S769. Also included in the lot: Griffin, Charles Francis compiler. Index to the Annals of San Francisco, by Frank Soulé, et. al... 22 pp. 22.9x14 cm. (9x5½"), boards, paper cover label. Special Publication No. 10. California Historical Society, 1935. Together 2 volumes. Lot Amendments Condition: Extremities rubbed; some foxing scattered within, the large folding map with a long closed stub tear, some marginal foxing; the 1935 Index is Fine; the 1855 Annals is very good. Item number: 219358
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 plates including frontispiece, all but one are steel-engraved portraits; 2 maps (1 folding). (8vo) 22.5x14.5 cm. (9x5½"), original black full morocco, spine lettered in gilt, covers stamped in gilt and blind, all edges gilt. First Edition. Howes S769. Also included in the lot: Griffin, Charles Francis compiler. Index to the Annals of San Francisco, by Frank Soulé, et. al... 22 pp. 22.9x14 cm. (9x5½"), boards, paper cover label. Special Publication No. 10. California Historical Society, 1935. Together 2 volumes. Lot Amendments Condition: Extremities rubbed; some foxing scattered within, the large folding map with a long closed stub tear, some marginal foxing; the 1935 Index is Fine; the 1855 Annals is very good. Item number: 219358
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