Sketches of California and Hawaii.
San Francisco: Book Club of California, 1970.
Folio, 22 color plates reproducing watercolor sketches by Meyers. Loose woven fabric over brick red boards, printed paper backstrip label. A fine copy with two copies of the prospectus laid in, each with a sample plate. Bookplate.
§ Limited to 450 copies printed by Robert Grabhorn and Andrew Hoyem. Publication number 136 of the Book Club of California. "This is the long-desired sequel to one of the Club's major works, Gunner Meyer's Journal of a Cruise, published fifteen years ago". The book presents 22 of Meyers' watercolors of California and Hawaii made between 1841 and 1844 which did not appear in the first publication, with commentary by John Haskell Kemble, two previously unpublished letters by Meyers, and his horoscope, cast by him in his journal with an interpretation by a modern astrologist. Item #126802
Price: $75.00