Naval Sketches of the War in California. Reproducing twenty-eight drawings made in 1846-47

by William H. Meyers, Gunner

$125 · Offered by John Windle Antiquarian

New York: Random House, 1939. Folio, xviii, 68 pp. Black and white frontispiece map, 10 color plates. Original marbled boards backed in cream leather, red leather backstrip label lettered in gilt. Backstrip somewhat worn and flaking, otherwise a very good copy. Bookplate. § Limited to 1000 copies printed at the Grabhorn Press in San Francisco. Descriptive text by Capt. Dudley W. Knox, U.S.N. Introduction by Franklin D. Roosevelt. William Meyers was a gunner on

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