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Lot 73
Sale 873 - Fine Books & Manuscripts, Including Americana
May 12, 2021
10:00AM CT
Live / Chicago
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[GRABHORN PRESS / BOOK CLUB OF CALIFORNIA]. WHEAT, Carl Irving (1892-1966). The Maps of the California Gold Region 1848-1857. A Biblio-Cartography of an Important Decade. San Francisco: The Grabhorn Press, 1942.
Folio. 26 reproductions of maps (17 folding). Original tan cloth-backed linen, printed paper label on spine.
LIMITED EDITION, one of 300 unnumbered copies of Wheat’s comprehensive study of early California cartography and Gold Rush maps. GB 368; Howes W-312.
Property from the Collection of Jack Belcher