THE HISTORY OF SAN JOSE AND SURROUNDINGS WITH BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES OF EARLY SETTLERS

Hall, Frederic

Verlag: Printing House of A.L. Bancroft and Company, San Francisco, 1871

xv,[1],537pp. plus four lithographic plates and folding map in rear pocket (expertly backed with tissue). Original cloth, expertly rebacked with original backstrip laid down. New endpapers. Library label carefully removed. Good. A presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front fly leaf: "Presented to A.G. Hinckly Esq, with the compliments of Frederic Hall." A scarce early work of California local history, notable for its treatment of the Spanish and Mexican periods of California history, with much on the land title controversies, Indians of the region, industrial progress, newspapers, schools, criminal behavior, the Vigilance Committees, and the like. "A thoroughly comprehensive history, with none of the objectionable features so common to many town and county histories that appeared later. The writer, a man of ability, was some time in the diplomatic service of Maximilian of Mexico" - Cowan (first edition). The large folding map was done by U.S. Surveyor General George H. Thompson and depicts the Pueblo lands in and around San Jose. HOWES H63, "aa." COWAN, p.259. ROCQ 14036. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers WRCAM20997

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Titel: THE HISTORY OF SAN JOSE AND SURROUNDINGS ...
Verlag: Printing House of A.L. Bancroft and Company, San Francisco
Erscheinungsdatum: 1871