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.
San Francisco: The Book Club of California, 1955.
Folio, [i-v], vi-xviii, 68 pp. Black and white frontispiece map, 10 color plates. Original natural linen backed in red leather, backstrip lettered in gilt. Backstrip lightly rubbed, gutter of endpapers toned, original prospectus and order form laid in. Very good.
§ Limited to 400 copies printed by the Grabhorn Press and one of the "Fifty Books of the Year." The handsome color drawings depict scenes in California and Hawaii. Grabhorn Bibliography 578; Book Club of California 91. Item #126675
Price: $175.00
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