Journal of a cruise to California and the Sandwich Islands in the United States Sloop-of-War Cyane 1841-1844 by William H. Myers, Gunner, U.S.N.
San Francisco: printed by the Grabhorn Press for The Book Club of California, November 1955. Leather Bound. xvi, 68p., immense hardbound, a 15x10 inch folio in openweave linen boards backed in lovely red-orange morocco gilt. Frontispiece reproduces Myers' map of the Pacific area, many color plates, marginal decorations, introduction, notes, appendix. The large rubricated prospectus is laid-in (folded and fine), very good first edition, one of 400 copies; the Bechtel family owns the original plates, and no fewer than four different Grabhorns worked over this production. Publication no. 91.
The 1955 Christmas publication.
Cat.No: 212802
Price: $250.00
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