Title: Up and Down California in 1860-1864: The Journal of William H. Brewer, Professor of Agriculture in the Sheffield Scientific School from 1864 to 1903 Author: Brewer, William H. Place: New York Publisher: Yale University Press Date: 1930 Description: xxx, 601 pp. Edited by Francis P. Farquhar. Preface by Russell H. Chittenden. Plates from photographs, drawings, etc. 9x6, blue cloth, spine lettered in gilt, jacket. First Edition. Brewer was the field leader of the California Geological Survey during the years 1860 through 1864. The Zamorano Eighty notes that "His keen and accurate observation, coupled with an ability to draw sound conclusions from his data, makes this a very readable volume and one of the most valuable on the California of the period." Howes B754; Zamorano Eighty 9. With the small leather bookplate of H.L. Doolittle of Pasadena, and the bookplate of the Zamorano Club indicating his presentation of the book to them. Lot Amendments Condition: Jacket with some darkening and slight soiling, small chips to spine ends; else fine in very good jacket. Item number: 197908
Title: Up and Down California in 1860-1864: The Journal of William H. Brewer, Professor of Agriculture in the Sheffield Scientific School from 1864 to 1903 Author: Brewer, William H. Place: New York Publisher: Yale University Press Date: 1930 Description: xxx, 601 pp. Edited by Francis P. Farquhar. Preface by Russell H. Chittenden. Plates from photographs, drawings, etc. 9x6, blue cloth, spine lettered in gilt, jacket. First Edition. Brewer was the field leader of the California Geological Survey during the years 1860 through 1864. The Zamorano Eighty notes that "His keen and accurate observation, coupled with an ability to draw sound conclusions from his data, makes this a very readable volume and one of the most valuable on the California of the period." Howes B754; Zamorano Eighty 9. With the small leather bookplate of H.L. Doolittle of Pasadena, and the bookplate of the Zamorano Club indicating his presentation of the book to them. Lot Amendments Condition: Jacket with some darkening and slight soiling, small chips to spine ends; else fine in very good jacket. Item number: 197908
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