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| Author: |
Meyers, William H. |
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Naval Sketches of the War in California reproducing twenty-eight Drawings made in 1846-47 by William H. Meyers, Gunner on the U.S. Sloop-of-War Dale |
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New York |
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Random House |
| Date: |
1939 |
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154443 |
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304 |
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163 |
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| Fine Americana. With the Autograph Collection of Florence S. Walter, Part II |
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03/10/2005 |
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1pm PST |
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$ 200 |
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$ 300 |
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| Description: |
| Text by Capt. Dudley W. Knox, U.S.N. Introduction by Franklin D. Roosevelt. Illustrated with 28 plates after the original drawings, colored with linoleum blocks. (Folio) 15¾x10½, quarter white morocco and marbled boards, raised spine bands, gilt-lettered maroon morocco spine label. One of 1000 copies printed by the Grabhorn Press. |
| Meyers served aboard the U.S.S. Dale during the conquest of California by U.S. forces. The plates were reproduced from the original drawings in the collection of Franklin D. Roosevelt. |
| Condition: |
| Light edge wear and rubbing, spine a bit darkened; near fine or better. |
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