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Lot 463
[CALIFORNIA]. DAVIS, William Heath (1822–1909). Seventy–Fiv...
Estimate: $400 - $600
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[CALIFORNIA]. DAVIS, William Heath (1822?1909).?Seventy?Five Years in California??Edited by Douglas S. Watson. San Francisco [and Chicago: Lakeside Press for] John Howell, 1929. Royal 8vo. EXTRA?ILLUSTRATED WITH ADDITIONAL DOCUMENTS, MANUSCRIPTS, BROADSIDES, ETC. Original teal niger gilt, top edge gilt (spine a bit sunned); slipcase. Second edition, LIMITED ISSUE, number 206 of 100 copies of the ?Argonaut Edition? with additional items inserted, SIGNED BY THE PUBLISHER AND EDITOR, of a total edition of 250. Includes several pages both typed and autographed of the original manuscript of this work by Davis, a manuscript petition of Jose Maria Albizu for discharge from the Army, dated 2 August 1831 at San Francisco? the same year Davis visited California as a boy, a broadside announcing martial law in San Francisco immediately after the 1906 earthquake and fire, and much more. Adams, Rampaging Herd 659 (first edition); Cowan, p. 160; Howes D136; Zamorano 27b.
