[Rarebooks] FS: 1/22 extra illustrated (with ephemera) copies of Davis' "75 Years in California"

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Davis, William Heath. SEVENTY-FIVE YEARS IN CALIFORNIA. A History of Events 
and Life in California: Personal, Political and Military; Under the Mexican 
Regime; During the Quasi-Military Government of the Territory by the United 
States, and After the Admission of the State to the Union... Edited and 
with an Historical Foreword and Index by Douglas S. Watson. San Francisco: John 
Howell. 1929. 4to. xxxii,422pp. Index. Profusely illustrated with plates. 
Endpapers printed in color. The special extra-illustrated edition limited to 
22 numbered copies, with 22 tipped-in pieces of California ephemera, 
including a land deed dated 1847, a large folding topographic map of San Francisco 
dated 1853, a copy of the California Mining Journal dated March 1, 1857, a 
proclamation by Mayor Schmitz following the 1906 earthquake, and a of William 
Davis' autograph ms. of this work. Tan cloth, some fraying at extremities, 
paper spine label, over paper covered boards (edges chipped). Signed on the 
limitation leaf by Douglas Watson and John Howell.     $1,500.00 (trade 
discount allowed)
DISBOUND AND DISPERSED, #39.

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