Report of the Special Committee of the Board of Supervisors of San Francisco on the Condition of the Chinese Quarter and the Chinese in San Francisco. July, 1885

by California, W. B. Farwell

$15,000 · Offered by James Cummins Bookseller · No longer available

First edition

First edition, first issue, with the first issue large-format version of the map by Bosqui laid in, as issued. Illustrated. 95pp. With: Official Map of Chinatown in San Francisco. 23-1/4 x 33 inches. Laid in. 8vo. Original tan lettered wrappers, minor wear and light soiling. Minor separations at folds of map as usual. Cowan, Bibliography of the Chinese Question 398; Hansen, The Chinese in California: A Brief Bibliographic History, p. 54.

• Binding: Wrappers

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