The Maps of the California Gold Region

by Carl I. Wheat

$4,750 · Offered by John Windle Antiquarian

San Francisco: Grabhorn Press, 1942. Folio, i-viii , ix-xlii, 1-2 , 3-153 pp. Full beige calf a bit scuffed, backstrip dry, internally very good. § A very rare Grabhorn Press publication. One of 22 on special paper for presentation of a total edition of 300 copies. ABPC lists just 2 copies at auction over 30 years, the last making 3250 in 1984. A remarkable bibliography of what was then all known maps of the western slopes and gold camps, including

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