THE BANCROFT LIBRARY: A Report Submitted to the President and Regents of the University of California upon the Condition of The Bancroft Library

by Reuben G. Thwaites

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First edition

Berkeley, CA: U. of California , 1905. First edition. 8vo. 2 , 18 pp. An appraisal coming in at 300,000; another 15,000 for duplicates of the Bancroft collection of books and manuscripts, primarily relating to California and the Pacific slope north and south of that state, but including other Western Americana and material related to Western Hemisphere areas once under Spanish dominion; its purchase was made in November, 1905, for 250,000, with Bancroft

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