1830: on the ambitious projects of Russia in regard to North West America, with particular reference to New Albion and New California by an Englishman
San Francisco: produced by Lewis and Dorothy Allen at The Allen Press for The Book Club of California, 1955. Hardcover. 79p., frontis-map, introduction, footnotes, very good first limited edition thus (originally printed in 1830) limited to 350 copies bound in 10x6.5 inch grey-blue paper boards decorated with minuscule Cyrillic texts in red, a backstrip of off-white paper vellum spine-titled red. Casing is faintly cocked else quite good: essentially sound, and entirely clean and unmarked.
Cat.No: 211973
Price: $50.00
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