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Forbes (Alexander) California: A History or Upper

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Forbes (Alexander) California: A History or Upper

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Forbes (Alexander) California: A History or Upper and Lower California...,first edition, lithographed portrait and 9 plates, folding engraved map hand-coloured in outline, errata slip at p.339, a very clean copy, contemporary calf, gilt, ex-Signet Library copy with gilt arms in centre of boards, rubbed, rebacked preserving old spine with red morocco label, [Sabin 25035], 8vo, 1839.

***"The first book in English to relate exclusively to California." Hill.