Lot 971
  • 971

Paloú, Francisco

Estimate
2,500 - 3,500 USD
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Noticias de la Nueva California, escritas por el Rev. Padre Fr. Francisco Paloú.  San Francisco: Printed by Edouardo Bosqui y Cia. for the California Historical Society, 1874



4 volumes, 8vo (9 3/4 x 6 1/8 in.; 248 x 155 mm, uncut and mostly unopened).  5 mounted photographic frontispieces (2 in vol. 3), 13 mounted photographic plates; occasional foxing.  Original printed wrappers; spines browned, some fading and dust-soiling, some chipping to spine ends, small chip at upper left corner of cover of vol. 1.  Blue buckram folding-case.   

Provenance

John Howell Books (note laid in)

Literature

Cowan, pp 170-71; Howes P55; Streeter 2944

Catalogue Note

Second edition; number 45 of 100 numbered sets, initialed by John T. Doyle.  A well-preserved set in original wrappers.