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Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Prospectus. Folio. One sheet folded once to make a 4-pp. booklet. 9 x 13-1/2 inches (folded dimensions). Announces the planned publication of Sketches and Scenery by M'Ilvaine. With an introduction by Robert G. Cleland. Printed by The Grabhorn Press in an edition of 400 copies. Prospectus has been folded for mailing, and there is some darkening at the fold; one corner slightly creased, but overall Very Good plus.
Seller: Wittenborn Art Books, San Francisco, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$60.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: With a Foreword by Robert G. Cleland and Reproductions of the Sixteen Lithographic Plates. San Francisco: Printed at The Grabhorn Press for The Book Club of California, 1951. Limited to 400 copies. "A reprint of a scarce book originally published in Philadelphia in 1850. Ten of the lithographs are views of California as seen by a '49er; the remaining six are of Mexico." Folio. Original marbled paper-covered boards over a linen spine, with a gilt-stamped paper spine label. A bit of sun fading along the spine; else near fine. The Hundredth Book #79.
Seller: johnson rare books & archives, ABAA, Covina, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$65.00 + shipping
Description: First edition thus, 1/400 copies (reprint of the 1850 original). Folio. ix, (3), 78 pp. 16 full-page plates. Howes M-112: "The lithograph views of San Francisco and Sacramento are among the earliest drawn on the spot." Sabin 43328. Graff 2615. Very good. Cloth-backed marbled boards, leather spine label. (#8244).
Seller: Bartleby's Books, ABAA, Chevy Chase, MD, U.S.A.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Limited to 400 copies printed for the California Book Club. Sunning of the top 1" of the cover. Otherwise in fine condition. Fast shipping with free delivery confirmation.
Seller: The Calico Cat Bookshop, Ventura, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Quarto, grey cloth and marbled boards, ix; [1]; 78 pp. 16 plates reproduced from the original lithographs. A fine copy, entirely clean and unworn Reprints the album of lithographs originally published in Philadelphia in 1850. M'Ilvaine spent June - October, 1849 in the gold country before departing by steamer for Mexico. 10 sketches depict places in California, the remaining 6 are in Mexico. Kurutz 420 b; Grabhorn Bibliography 517.
Seller: Chanticleer Books, ABAA, Fort Bragg, CA, U.S.A.
M'ILVAINE, William Jr.. Sketches of Scenery and Notes of a Personal Adventure in California. , 1951.
Price: US$110.00 + shipping
Description: M'ILVAINE, William Jr. Sketches of Scenery and Notes of a Personal Adventure in California and Mexico. With a Foreword by Robert G. Cleland. Illustrated With Reproductions of the Sixteen Lithographic Plates. [San Francisco]: Grabhorn Press, 1951. Folio. A fine copy in orig. canvas-backed boards. Howes M-112. Limited to 400 copies. The views of San Francisco and Sacramento are among the earliest drawn "on the spot."
Seller: G.S. MacManus Co., ABAA, Bryn Mawr, PA, U.S.A.
Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition thus. Folio. Foreword by Robert G. Cleland, Reproductions of 16 lithographic plates, bordered in red. Original tan cloth over pink patterned board, gilt stamped upper spine label, uncut. Original plain white dust jacket (unclipped). Very good-fine. No signatures or bookplates. One of 400 unnumbered copies, printed at the Grabhorn Press; GB 517; BCC #79.
Seller: Houle Rare Books/Autographs/ABAA/PADA, Palm Springs, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Description: Limited to 400 copies. With a foreword by Robert G. Cleland. Folio. ix, 78 pp. 16 plates. Original linen backstrip, marbled boards, paper spine label. A very fine copy. M'Ilvaine's "sketches" were first published in 1850, and included ten views of California. The sketches of San Francisco, Sacramento, and Stockton are among the earliest known, as are those of Sutter's Fort and Mill. "M'Ilvaine arrived in San Francisco from Callao, Peru, on June 1 and left on November 1, 1849, on board the steamer California. This album-like volume represents one of the earliest publications illustrated with on the spot drawings" (Kurutz). [Howes: M-12; Kurutz: 420-b].
Seller: Argonaut Book Shop, ABAA, San Francisco, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Description: One of 400 copies. Original prospectus laid in. Folio. ix, [1, blank, 79, [1, blank] pp. Full-page plates. Quarter natural linen over marbled boards, paper spine label. Fine in plain paper d.j. Some browning to d.j.
Seller: Michael R. Thompson Books, A.B.A.A., Los Angeles, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$175.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Cloth backed patterned boards. Illustrations. 400 copies printed by the Grabhorn Press. The author was born in Philadelphia in 1813. He earned a Master of Arts degree in 1835, then devoted a number of years to the study of art in Europe. He joined the gold migration in 1849, traveled through the gold fields and visited gold mines on the Tuolumne, Stanislaus, and Merced rivers. He appears to have devoted more time to his sketch book than to the "pick, pan, or shovel". "The student of California history is also under obligation to M'iIvaine for the brief comment with which he supplements each of his plates. A surprising number of these descriptions contain unusual details or items of historic interest that the writer of the present Foreword at least has not encountered elsewhere".
Seller: Barry Cassidy Rare Books, Sacramento, CA, U.S.A.