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LOWER CALIFORNIA FRONTIER: Articles from the San Diego Union 1870
by Shipek, Florence C. (Editor)
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine
- Seller
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Covina, California, United States
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About This Item
Los Angeles: Dawson's Book Shop, 1965. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. Limited to 600 copies. A series of nine articles that ran in the San Diego Union in the spring of 1870, describing the prospects of settlement in Baja California in terms of the land, land grants, land title problems, water, people, mines, cattle, agriculture, etc. The primary source for this series was an optimistic 1861 report by Jose Matias Moreno, Commissioner of the Government and sub-prefect of La Frontera, Northern District of Lower California, which was supplemented by the surveying work of J. Ross Browne, mission records, railroads survey reports, and information from some local friends, among them Judge Benjamin Hayes. The second volume in Dawson's Baja California Travels Series. Octavo: [72] p. with a title page drawing and a folding map. Original tan cloth binding, with gilt titles. Issued without a jacket. A near Lfine copy.
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- Bookseller
- Johnson Rare Books & Archives
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 76394
- Title
- LOWER CALIFORNIA FRONTIER: Articles from the San Diego Union 1870
- Author
- Shipek, Florence C. (Editor)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Dawson's Book Shop
- Place of Publication
- Los Angeles
- Date Published
- 1965
- Keywords
- Mexico, Baja California, Mexican History, Travel
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Johnson Rare Books & Archives
Biblio member since 2008
Covina, California
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- First Edition
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- Gilt
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- Title Page
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- Fine
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- Jacket
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- Cloth
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