[Rarebooks] FS: Seyd's "California..." includes 1st litho views of Yosemite. London: 1858

[Kenneth Karmiole]

Seyd, Ernest. CALIFORNIA AND ITS RESOURCES. A Work for the Merchant, the Capitalist, and the Emigrant. London: Trubner and Co. 1858. First edition. (4)_,168pp. Plus 1 leaf of ads. Illustrated with 10 lithograph plates (8, hand colored), 8 wood-engraved plates (including a folding panoramic view of San Francisco) and 2 folding maps. All plates protected with tissue guards. Cont. dark brown calf, gilt, over marbled boards. Hinges chipped but holding soundly. Lower spine stamped, "Board of Trade." Old rubber library stamps at top margin of title page.    $1,000.00 (trade discount allowed)
2 of the lithograph plates include the first published views of Yosemite. Howes: The final Edition S310. Cowan II p. 577. Sabin 79633.

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