Journal of a Cruise to California and the Sandwich Islands in the United States Sloop-of-War Cyane by William H. Meyers, Gunner, U.S.N. 1841–1844. Edited by John Haskell Kemble.
1955. San Francisco: The Book Club of California, 1955.
Folio, xviii, 68 pp. B/w frontispiece map, 10 color plates. Original natural linen backed in red leather, backstrip lettered in gilt.
§ Limited to 400 copies printed by the Grabhorn Press, and one of the "Fifty Books of the Year." The method of color reproduction is novel in the history of printing. First the original drawings were reproduced in black and white by a gravure process. The color blocks were then cut in linoleum, and printed over the black and white prints. Shading was effected by sandpapering the linoleum. Hill, pp. 199-200. Magee & Magee 568. Seventy Years 91. Item #124730
Price: $125.00
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