[Rarebooks] FS: The rare first true work of California history to be printed in California!!

[Kenneth Karmiole]

(CALIFORNIA) Taylor, Alexander Smith. DISCOVERY OF CALIFORNIA AND NORTHWEST AMERICA: the First Voyage to the Coasts of California, Made in the Years 1542 and 1543. by Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo and His Pilot Bartolome Ferrelo. San Francisco: Le Count & Strong. 1853. 8vo. 19,(1)pp. final page blank. Double column text. Without the orig. printed wrappers. Bound in 20th century full black pebbled morocco, gilt spine. With numerous blank binder's leaves at back. Some text foxing.    $2,000.00 (trade discount allowed)
This work is acknowledged as "The first true work of California history to be printed in California." (Greenwood 426). A noted rarity, the Norris catalog #3870 calling it, "Extremely rare." Howes T44. Streeter Sale #2748. Cowan II pp. 629-30.

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