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HISTORY OF HUMBOLDT COUNTY CALIFORNIA: with illustrations descriptive of its scenery, farms, residences, public buildings, factories, hotels, business houses, schools, churches, etc., from original drawings, including biographical sketches.
by (W.W. Elliott & Co.)
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very good
- Seller
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Fort Bragg, California, United States
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About This Item
San Francisco: Wallace W. Elliott & Co., 1881. First edition. Hardcover. Very good. Original black cloth stamped in gilt and blind, leather spine has been replaced with black straight-grain morocco in a perfect replica of the original, including spine lettering and ornaments; folio (14.75 x 11.75 inches). (220) pp., including 2 colored maps of California & Nevada and Humboldt & surrounding counties, 1 sepia-toned map of Wind Currents of the Pacific Coast. Lithograph frontispiece and 48 lithograph plates (4 are double-page). Many wood-engraved illustrations in the text. Covers are quite clean and unworn; endpapers and blank leaves a bit grubby, occasional short tears to margins of pages, 2 leaves have old cello tape mends in margins, overall very good.
The first history of this Northern California county. Quite scarce in commerce; only 2 copies at auction in 30 years. Cowan II p. 296; Rocq 2037.
The first history of this Northern California county. Quite scarce in commerce; only 2 copies at auction in 30 years. Cowan II p. 296; Rocq 2037.
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- Bookseller
- Chanticleer Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 17926
- Title
- HISTORY OF HUMBOLDT COUNTY CALIFORNIA
- Author
- (W.W. Elliott & Co.)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- Publisher
- Wallace W. Elliott & Co.
- Place of Publication
- San Francisco
- Date Published
- 1881
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Fort Bragg, California
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