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CALIFORNIA: Fifty Years of Progress.
San Francisco, n.p., 1900, First edition. , Original black leather-grained cloth with gilt title; oblong folio (11.25 x 16 inches); 300 pp. Profusely illustrated with color lithograph title page, b/w photos on nearly every page.. Surface crack to cloth over rear joint; corners bumped; title page tissue guard quite foxed; occasional short tears to page edges; still about very good.. Likely created to promote California at the 1900 Paris Exposition. The last page, headed "California at the Exposition" projects the costs and explains scope and aims of a California exhibit. Content of the other 299 pages includes a history of the state and its industries, sections devoted to counties, cities, agriculture, transportation, etc., as well as biographies of noted Californians. Rare. Cowan vol. iv. #69 (p. 834); Rocq 16742.
Offered for US$ 450.00 by: Chanticleer Books - Book number: 17759
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