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(CALIFORNIA.) Austin, Mary.
The Land of Little Rain.
4 plates, illustrations.
8vo, publisher’s gilt pictorial cloth, minor wear; crease on plate facing page 276; small
bookplate on front pastedown.
Boston, 1903
[250/350]
FIRST EDITION
.
“These charming sketches of the desert and semi-desert country comprising
the Owens Valley and the approaches to the great sink of Death Valley have become practically
a classic”—Zamorano Eighty 2. Graff 114; Howes A400.
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(CALIFORNIA.) Brown, John Henry.
Reminiscences and Incidents of “The
Early Days” of San Francisco.
Folding plan. 8vo, publisher’s maroon cloth gilt, minor
wear; short closed tear and minor wear to map, hinges splitting, but otherwise nice
internally. In modern
1
/
4
morocco slipcase.
San Francisco, [1886]
[1,500/2,500]
FIRST EDITION
.
“John Henry Brown was a fur trader, bartender, citizen-soldier, hotel builder,
capitalist, man of affairs, and author. A prominent figure in San Francisco in the early days,
1846-1850, Brown observed and was told of many happenings there. He met many men, both
the great and the near great. His reminiscences fill in many of the gaps in the early history of
San Francisco”—Zamorano Eighty 10. Cowan 1933 page 77; Graff 429; Howes B853
(“b”); Kurutz 88a; Streeter sale V:2999; Wheat, Gold Rush 23.
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(CALIFORNIA.) Bryant, Edwin.
What I Saw in California.
12mo, later cloth,
moderate wear; foxing; small bookplate on front pastedown. New York, 1848
[300/400]
FIRST EDITION
.
Bryant arrived in California in September 1846, served under Frémont in
the California Battalion, was appointed alcalde of San Francisco, and returned east in 1847.
“The prime and almost the earliest authority on the California of the discovery period”—
Wheat, Gold Rush 26. Graff 457; Howes B903; Kurutz 95a; Sabin 8804; Streeter sale
V:3147; Wagner-Camp 146:1; Zamorano Eighty 12.
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