H.M.S. Sulphur at California, 1837 and 1839 : the accounts of Captain Edward Belcher and Midshipman Francis Guillemard Simpkinson. by PIERCE, Richard A. & John H. Winslow (eds) - 1979

Book Club of California. Castle Press, 1969-01-01. hardcover. Very Good. 0x0x0.

San Francisco: Book Club Of California, 1969. limited first thus. Hardcover. Very good. Hardcover, no jacket. Very Good. Some wear to edges and corners; some bumping to corners; some rubbing/wear to covers; some slanting to spine; some soiling to top edge of pages; pages browned. #132 of 450 copies printed.

San Francisco: Book Club of California, 1969. First edition limited to 450 copies. Hardcover. A fine copy, entirely clean and unworn. Original cloth and boards, octavo, xiii, 70 pp. Illustrated. Printed by Grant Dahlstrom at the Castle Press, Pasadena, California. Prospectus laid in.

Kingston, Ontario: The Limestorn Press. Fine. 1979. Reprint Edition. Hardcover. 144pp., plus publisher's series list. 8vo; black cloth lettered in gilt; illustrations, map. Materials for the Study of Alaska History no. 12. In the bargain: Colton, Walter. Deck And Port; or, Incidents Of A Cruise In The United States Frigate Congress To California With Sketches of Rio Janeiro, Valparaiso, Lima, Honolulu, and San Francisco. N.Y.; Cincinnati: A. S. Barnes; H. W. Derby & Co., 1850. 2nd Edition. 408pp., portrait frontis; 12mo; green cloth, spine lettered & decorated in gilt; map. EX-PACIFIC UNION CLUB LIBRARY, with their bookplate front pastedown. Ownership signatures, Fred S. Russ, front blank, H. S. Russ rear endpaper. Spine worn and faded with loss at top; leading edges and corners rubbed with wear through to boards; front endpaper out; front hinge a bit weak, but cord binding holding together to make it a decent reference copy in Fair condition. .

San Francisco: The Book Club of California, 1969 First edition. Limited to 450 copies printed by Grant Dahlstrom at the Castle Press. 70 pp. Frontis map in color, 2 facsimiles, portrait, and 3 plates (1 in color). Cloth-backed decorated boards, gilt-lettered spine. A very fine copy. A previously unpublished account of the visit to California in 1837, taken from Simpkinson's journal and illustrated from contemporary drawings. The text tells of visits to San Francisco Bay, up the Sacramento River, and to Monterey; the land, the missions, and the natives were closely observed and described. Original prospectus laid in..

(San Francisco): Book Club of California, 1969. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine, with prospectus. Cloth-backed decorated boards Accounts of two midshipmen's experiences in early California, including Simpkinson's previously unpublished account.and Belcher's surveying voyage on the Sulphur to Russian America (Alaska), Sandwich Islands (Hawaii), San Francisco California and to Central America, originally published in 1843. Limited to 450 copies printed by Grant Dahlstrom at the Castle Press. Illustrated with plates.

San Francisco: The Book Club of California, 1969. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 70 pages, tall 8vo, printed by Grant Dahlstrom at the Castle Press for the Book Club of California, one of 450 copies, publication Number 132 of the Book Club of California, grey cloth spine with decorative paper covers, includes black & white and color illustrations, some light browning to the spine, otherwise a very clean, tight copy..