California as an Island: An Illustrated Essay...; With Twenty-five Plates & a Bibliographical Checklist of Maps showing California as an Island

by John Leighly

$500 · Offered by Swan's Fine Books

First edition

San Francisco: The Book Club of California printed at the press of Robert Grabhorn and Andrew Hoyem , 1972. Limited First Edition. Hardcover. One of 450 copies, folio size, 156 pp., with prospectus and original sales receipt. Fine. Item #18030306 The curious misconception that California was an island was recorded by a minimum of 170 maps, in many editions, and continued to 1785 even

• Printing: later
• Binding: Hardcover

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