CALIFORNIA'S PICTORAL LETTER SHEETS, 1849-1869

by Joseph Armstrong Baird, Jr.

$200 · Offered by Bartleby's Books

First edition

San Francisco, CA : David Magee, 1967. First edition, 1/475 unnumbered copies printed by Robert Grabhorn and Andrew Hoyem. Folio. 171 pp. Illustrated, 59 full-page plates of the letter sheet illustrations, some folding, facsimile in pocket on rear pastedown. Produced in the two decades following 1849 as vivid pictorial records on sheets of writing paper, California letter sheets remain the major surviving visual account of California in that era.

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