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Publication Date: 2023
Seller: True World of Books, Delhi, India
Book Print on Demand
LeatherBound. Condition: New. LeatherBound edition. Condition: New. Reprinted from 1869 edition. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. Bound in genuine leather with Satin ribbon page markers and Spine with raised gilt bands. A perfect gift for your loved ones. NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Pages: 890 Browne, J. Ross (John Ross), 1821-1875,Taylor, Alexander S. (Alexander Smith), 1817-1876.
Publication Date: 2023
Seller: True World of Books, Delhi, India
Book Print on Demand
LeatherBound. Condition: New. LeatherBound edition. Condition: New. Reprinted from 1869 edition. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. Bound in genuine leather with Satin ribbon page markers and Spine with raised gilt bands. A perfect gift for your loved ones. NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Pages: 894 Browne, J. Ross (John Ross), 1821-1875,Making of America Project,Taylor, Alexander S. (Alexander Smith), 1817-1876.
Published by D. Appleton and Company, 1869
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Original brown pebbled cloth with gilt lettering on spine. Cloth shows general soiling and wear. Spine faded; loss at spine ends; board corners exposed. Cloth cracked along front outer hinge, though inner hinges are intact and the binding is solid. Pages foxed. A few instances of pencil underlining on a couple of pages in the fist chapter, and one or two appearances of penciled marginalia elsewhere, otherwise unmarked. Small bookseller label on front pastedown for Scrantom & Wetmore Booksellers and Stationers of Rochester, N.Y. pp. 678, 200 [878 total]. 9.25 x 5.8 inches. Detailed descriptions from 1868 of the resources of the states west of the Rockies with a focus on mining and mineral resources, but also describing topography, population, water resources, agriculture, and industry. Largely arranged by county or state district, the material covers California (pp. 1-298), Nevada (299-442), and Arizona (443-481), and has briefer sections on Utah (482-486), Montana (487-511), Idaho (512-536), Washington Territory (537-575), Oregon (576-596), and Alaska (597-604). John Ross Browne's report was initially prepared in 1868 for Congress and was first published that November. It is here supplemented with the 77-page ''Historical Summary of Lower California from Its Discovery in 1532 to 1867'' by Alexander S. Taylor, four pages detailing the Lower California Colonization Company (1861), Browne's 40-page journal of exploration through Lower California, reports on further exploration by Capt. Charles M. Scammon, the expedition of the J. D. Hawks party, and Dr. John A. Veatch on Cedros Island, with an additional miscellany of related reports.
Published by H.H.Bancroft and Company, San Francisco, 1869
Hardcover. Condition: Good. 8vo, 200 pp, in original brown pebbled cloth with title stamped in gilt on front board. Ex-library, with call number on spine, lacking front free endpaper. Binding sound, text clean. A scarce edition of this compilation, which was also published in the same year by Appleton as the second part of Browne's "Resources of the Pacific Slope." Includes: Taylor's Historical Summary of Lower California, from its Discovery in 1532 to 1867; Scammon's Exploration of Lower California; Journal of the Expedition of Mr. J.D. Hawks and Party, Through the Interior of the Peninsula of Lower California, from San Domingo to San Diego; Report of Dr. John A. Veatch on Cerros or Cedros Island; Extracts from a History of Old or Lower California by Padre Francisco Javier Clavijero; Washington Territory Historical Memoir (unattributed); and Historical Sketch of Nevada, Including Boundaries, Population, Aboriginal Inhabitants, Early Settlements, &c. (unattributed). Cowan p. 79.
Published by D. Appleton & Co.,, New York:, 1869, copyright 1868., 1869
Seller: Truman Price & Suzanne Price / oldchildrensbooks, Monmouth, OR, U.S.A.
. (illustrator). Very Good: straight, clean, unmarked. Hardcover recased in red cloth with gilt spine titles. 678 pages (Resources._) + 200 pages (Lower California). Very detailed description of Baja California , present and history. The Baja portion, subtitled "The Historical Summary of Lower California from Its Discovery in 1532 to 1867" is written by Alexander Taylor .