Item #126929 Naval Sketches of the War in California. Reproducing twenty-eight drawings made in 1846-47 by William H. Meyers, Gunner on the U.S. Sloop-of-War Dale. William H. . Franklin D. Roosevelt . Capt. Dudley Knox Meyers, drawings, introduction, commentary.
Naval Sketches of the War in California. Reproducing twenty-eight drawings made in 1846-47 by William H. Meyers, Gunner on the U.S. Sloop-of-War Dale.

Naval Sketches of the War in California. Reproducing twenty-eight drawings made in 1846-47 by William H. Meyers, Gunner on the U.S. Sloop-of-War Dale.

New York: Random House, 1939.

Folio, xviii, 68 pp. Black and white frontispiece map, 10 color plates. Original marbled boards backed in cream leather, red leather backstrip label lettered in gilt. Backstrip somewhat worn and flaking, otherwise a very good copy. Bookplate.

§ Limited to 1000 copies printed at the Grabhorn Press in San Francisco. Descriptive text by Capt. Dudley W. Knox, U.S.N. Introduction by Franklin D. Roosevelt. William Meyers was a gunner on the first USS Dale during the War with Mexico. His drawings of the American conquest of California and gold mining activities are of great historical importance. The color plates were reproduced from the original drawings in the collection of Franklin D. Roosevelt. Item #126929

Price: $125.00

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