The Annals of San Francisco; Containing a Summary of the History of the First Discovery, Settlement, Progress, and Present Condition of California... Author: Soulé, Frank, John H. Gihon & James Nisbet Place Published: New York Publisher: D. Appleton and Company Date Published: 1855 Description: 824 pp. Illustrated with numerous wood engravings, 6 steel-engraved plates (including frontispiece); 2 maps (1 folding). (8vo) 23x14.5 cm (9x5¾"), period quarter morocco over marbled boards, raised bands, spine lettered in gilt; all edges speckled. First Edition. The two maps are: "Map of San Francisco" (9.5x12.3 cm); and "General Map Showing the Countries Explored & Surveyed by the United States & Mexican Boundary Commission in the years 1850, 51, 52 & 53, under the direction of John R. Bartlett. U.S. Commissioner" (38.7x49 cm). This latter is a significant map of the American west and northern Mexico, with much detail in the regions newly wrested from the Mexican Republic. Kurutz 594; Cowan p.601; Graff 3901; Howes S769; Sabin 87268; Zamorano 80 #70. Paid check and bookseller ink stamp on rear blank leaf. Condition: Faint rubbing to morocco; damp staining to edges of textblock and some pages, occasional foxing, one visible closed tear to folding map, longer tear closed on verso with tape; very good. Item#: 351639 Headline: Soulé Annals of San Francisco 1855 w/ maps
The Annals of San Francisco; Containing a Summary of the History of the First Discovery, Settlement, Progress, and Present Condition of California... Author: Soulé, Frank, John H. Gihon & James Nisbet Place Published: New York Publisher: D. Appleton and Company Date Published: 1855 Description: 824 pp. Illustrated with numerous wood engravings, 6 steel-engraved plates (including frontispiece); 2 maps (1 folding). (8vo) 23x14.5 cm (9x5¾"), period quarter morocco over marbled boards, raised bands, spine lettered in gilt; all edges speckled. First Edition. The two maps are: "Map of San Francisco" (9.5x12.3 cm); and "General Map Showing the Countries Explored & Surveyed by the United States & Mexican Boundary Commission in the years 1850, 51, 52 & 53, under the direction of John R. Bartlett. U.S. Commissioner" (38.7x49 cm). This latter is a significant map of the American west and northern Mexico, with much detail in the regions newly wrested from the Mexican Republic. Kurutz 594; Cowan p.601; Graff 3901; Howes S769; Sabin 87268; Zamorano 80 #70. Paid check and bookseller ink stamp on rear blank leaf. Condition: Faint rubbing to morocco; damp staining to edges of textblock and some pages, occasional foxing, one visible closed tear to folding map, longer tear closed on verso with tape; very good. Item#: 351639 Headline: Soulé Annals of San Francisco 1855 w/ maps
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