California as an Island. An Illustrated Essay..with Twenty-five Plates & a Bibliographical Checklist of Maps showing California as an Island 1622- 1785.
Leighley, John.
San Francisco: Book Club of California, 1972. First edition, limited to 450 copies. One of the most important publications of the Book Club of California, considered by many to be the major California cartographic work for the period covered (1622-1785). Finely printed by Grabhorn-Hoyem. Twenty-five tinted reproductions of maps, most double-page,two folding; twelve figures in text; colored title-page vignette and opening initial. A fine copy. Quarter brown leather over tan pictorial boards. A fine copy. Folio. 155 pp. (Item ID: 152459)
$1,250.00
