Title: The Commerce and Industries of the Pacific Coast of North America; comprising the rise, progress, products, present condition, and prospects of the useful arts on the Western side of our continent Author: Hittell, John S. Place: San Francisco Publisher: A.L. Bancroft Date: 1882 Description: 819 pp. Numerous wood-engraved plates; 2 folding hand-colored lithographed maps. 11¼x8¼, original sheep, leather spine labels. Extensive work on the business, industries, and prospects of California, Oregon, Washington Territory, and British Columbia in the latter half of the 19th century. Included are extensive sections on banking, railroad building, steamships, telegraph lines, large wholesale exporters in San Francisco, Portland & Seattle, agriculture, gold and silver mining, fishing, logging, sawmills, manufacturing and more. The color maps of California & Nevada, and Washington Territory & Oregon are well executed. Lot Amendments Condition: Scuffing to leather, covers detached; internally very good or better. Item number: 254511
Title: The Commerce and Industries of the Pacific Coast of North America; comprising the rise, progress, products, present condition, and prospects of the useful arts on the Western side of our continent Author: Hittell, John S. Place: San Francisco Publisher: A.L. Bancroft Date: 1882 Description: 819 pp. Numerous wood-engraved plates; 2 folding hand-colored lithographed maps. 11¼x8¼, original sheep, leather spine labels. Extensive work on the business, industries, and prospects of California, Oregon, Washington Territory, and British Columbia in the latter half of the 19th century. Included are extensive sections on banking, railroad building, steamships, telegraph lines, large wholesale exporters in San Francisco, Portland & Seattle, agriculture, gold and silver mining, fishing, logging, sawmills, manufacturing and more. The color maps of California & Nevada, and Washington Territory & Oregon are well executed. Lot Amendments Condition: Scuffing to leather, covers detached; internally very good or better. Item number: 254511
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