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Heading: (Grabhorn-Hoyem)
Author: Leighly, John
Title: California as an Island...Bibliographical Checklist of Maps Showing California as an Island, 1622-1785
Place: San Francisco
Publisher: Book Club of California
Date: 1972
Item # : 187402
Sale Number   379
Lot Number   336
Sale Name    
The Daniel G. Volkmann, Jr., Collection of Fine California Press Books
Sale Date   05/08/2008
Price realized   $ 1800
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Description:
Illustrated with 25 map plates, some folding; hand-colored title page vignette. 13¾x8¼, quarter brown morocco & pictorial boards. 1 of 450 copies printed by Robert Grabhorn & Andrew Hoyem.
A beautiful book containing a thorough examination of this fascinating period of California cartography. Prospectus and an example folding map, laid in. GHB 60; BCC 141.
Condition:
Fine.
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