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Price: US$179.66 + shipping
Description: 31x23cm. XLII, 152 pp. Original yellow cloth, label on spine. Excellent condition.
Seller: Garwood & Voigt, Sevenoaks, United Kingdom
Price: US$600.00 + shipping
Description: Quarto; in blue-green paper-covered boards backed in cream leather with flat bands and a morocco label; xliii, 152, [2] with [26] leaves of plates; annotated description of the maps, illustrated with facsimile reproductions of many of them, a number in color and / or folding.~~"Three hundred copies printed at the Grabhorn Press, San Francisco 1942".~~A lovely First Edition copy of this important study of the maps of the gold rush era, and of the American West. (Howes W-312). Near Fine binding.
Seller: BLACK SWAN BOOKS, INC., ABAA, ILAB, Richmond, VA, U.S.A.
Price: US$600.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First edition limited to 300 copies. 153 pages, plus 42 pages introduction, 26 plates, many fold out. Large quarto (4to). Hardcover tan cloth, with darker spike, with label. An important book for California historians and map collectors. Fair condition, overall book, small stain in the bottom binding corner, visible in introduction to page 35.
Seller: The Old Print Shop, Inc., New York, NY, U.S.A.
WHEAT, Carl I.. Maps of California Gold Region, 1848-1857: A Biblio-Cartography. , 1942.
Price: US$1100.00 + shipping
Description: WHEAT, Carl I. The Maps of California Gold Region, 1848-1857: A Biblio-Cartography of an Important Decade. Original cloth, printed paper spine label. San Francisco: The Grabhorn Press, 1942. Folio. First edition. One of 300 copies. 26 folding maps. HOWES W-312, "b." The definitive scholarly study of the maps of the gold rush and one of the most respected books about California and the American West. Mild sunning to label, else fine.
Seller: G.S. MacManus Co., ABAA, Bryn Mawr, PA, U.S.A.