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Published by Legare Street Press, 2021
ISBN 10: 1013834364ISBN 13: 9781013834363
Seller: GreatBookPrices, Columbia, MD, U.S.A.
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Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.
Published by Legare Street Press, 2021
ISBN 10: 1013834364ISBN 13: 9781013834363
Seller: GreatBookPricesUK, Castle Donington, DERBY, United Kingdom
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Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.
Published by Saunders Studio Press, Claremont, Ca, 1935
Seller: The Old Mill Bookshop, HACKETTSTOWN, NJ, U.S.A.
Folding plate 108, [1] pp. 8vo. From an edition of 700 copies, this being no. 249. Folding plate 108, [1] pp. 8vo. With a presentation inscription from Bynum to noted California bookseller Jake Zeitlin. A fine press printing of this narrative, originally published in 1808 in the AMERICAN REGISTER. Howes S324 Original half cloth and marbled boards. Minor shelfwear. Dust jacket lightly chipped and soiled, closed tear at spine. Presentation inscription on front flyleaf. Internally fine. Very good plus. Untrimmed and unopened From an edition of 700 copies, this being no. 249.
Published by Philadelphia, etc.: C. & A. Conrad, et al., 1808., 1808
Seller: Arader Galleries - AraderNYC, New York, NY, U.S.A.
8vo., (9 x 6 inches). (Spotted and browned, title-page torn with minor loss to one corner not affecting the text). Contemporary red roan backed marbled paper boards, uncut (extremities a bit worn). Provenance: Perforated library stamp of John Crerar Library on title-page. "THE FIRST EXTENSIVE ACCOUNT OF CALIFORNIA PUBLISHED IN THE US BY AN AMERICAN VISITOR" (Hart) First edition. Shaler sailed from Canton to the mouth of the Columbia River between February and May of 1804, from there he cruised down the coast to Guatemala, and so was the first U.S. citizen to give account of California. He was favorably impressed: "The conquest of this country would be absolutely nothing; it would fall without an effort to the most inconsiderable force; and as the greatest efforts that the Spanish government would be capable of making towards its recovery would be from shores of New Spain, opposite the peninsula" (page 161). Shaler was involved in the China trade in the 1790s, traded furs on the Northwest Coast, lived in Hawaii from 1803-1804, served as a special agent of the U.S. in Havana, on President Madison's orders he fomented revolution in Texas, and then acted as a peace-maker in the war of 1812. Forbes, Hawaiian National Bibliography 396. Companion to California, p. 400; see also Hart's American Images of Spanish California, pp. 2 & 38-39). Hill 1555 (citing reprint). Howes S324.