Hittel j s (3 resultados)

Paperback. Condición: Good. Printed 1875, as Eleventh Edition, in San Francisco. Pages with foxing. Some pages with browning. Bottom front corner margins missing or folded on some pages. About 1/3 of back softcover missing. Owner bookplate of Thomas Wayne Norris, lightly affixed to back of front cover. Charts and maps. Contemporary ads, many with b/w illustrations. Publisher: A.L. Bancroft and Company, for California Immigrant Union. 79 pages, plus advertising pages.…

64, 16, [34 ]pp. Last leaf blank. Folding map showing route to California for the "Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific R.R. Line". T.p. vignette. 2 page map of California. Full-page wood engraving of Grand Hotel. 2 page map of "J. T. Little's San Joaquin Valley". Other cuts, primarily in adverts. 8vo. 8-5/8" x 5-7/8" A propaganda piece, published to encourage additional settlement in the state. Filled with pertinent data & factoids on the era. General wear, with 1/2" paper loss to spine ends. With California Immigrant Uniton stamp to upper right of front wrapper. Light staining to text-block. Small bit of biopredation to top margin of last 8 leaves [no text affected]. Withal, a VG copy of an uncommon item. Printed peach-colored wrappers. Now housed in a clear archival mylar sleeve 2nd edition (Cowan II, p. 7; Howes C-36). Issued same year as the first edition. …

16, 464 S. Hlwdbd d. Zeit (Rücken m. altem Leinen unauffällig überklebt, m. handschriftl. Signatur vorn u. Bibl.-Stempel verso Titel, Vordergelenk gelockert, etwas braunfleckig). Interessantes und ausführliches Porträt Kaliforniens, auch über die Topographie, Flora, Fauna, Recht, Gesellschaft.- Mit einem Kapitel über die Ortsnamen.- Sabin 32272. Sprache: Englisch.…