Identification of Sir Francis Drake's Anchorage,
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Author: Davidson, George
Title: Identification of Sir Francis Drake's Anchorage on the Coast of California in the Year 1579
Place Published: San Francisco
Publisher:California Historical Society
Date Published: [1890]
Description:
Author: Davidson, George
Title: Identification of Sir Francis Drake's Anchorage on the Coast of California in the Year 1579
Place Published: San Francisco
Publisher:California Historical Society
Date Published: [1890]
Description:
58 pp. Illustrated with 15 folding maps and charts. (4to) 26x17.7 cm (10¼x7") blue cloth, spine titled in gilt, original wraps with holographic title bound-in.
"Professor Davidson had originally believed that Sir Francis Drake entered San Francisco Bay. In this article he revealed a change in belief, and maintained that 'the great circumnavigator anchored in Drake's Bay; ...there remains not the shadow of a doubt in my mind as to the exact locality'..." - Evans, First One Hundred Years... California Historical Society, p. 172. This was the fifth publication of the California Historical Society. Cowan, p. 157; Rocq 4965. Inscribed by Davidson to Professor E. W. Dahlgren, with accompanying notes about readings in San Francisco.
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Wear and fading to extremities, some soiling to spine; bookplate on front pastedown, internal toning and foxing, previous owner's notations; overall very good.
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