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Seller's Description:
Fine, with prospectus. Cloth-backed decorated boards Accounts of two midshipmen's experiences in early California, including Simpkinson's previously unpublished account. and Belcher's surveying voyage on the Sulphur to Russian America (Alaska), Sandwich Islands (Hawaii), San Francisco California and to Central America, originally published in 1843. Limited to 450 copies printed by Grant Dahlstrom at the Castle Press. Illustrated with plates.
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Fine. Book First edition. Limited to 450 copies printed by Grant Dahlstrom at the Castle Press. 70 pp. Frontis map in color, 2 facsimiles, portrait, and 3 plates (1 in color). Cloth-backed decorated boards, gilt-lettered spine. A very fine copy. A previously unpublished account of the visit to California in 1837, taken from Simpkinson's journal and illustrated from contemporary drawings. The text tells of visits to San Francisco Bay, up the Sacramento River, and to Monterey; the land, the missions, and the natives were closely observed and described. Original prospectus laid in.