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H.M.S. Sulphur at California, 1837 and 1839. Being the Accounts of Midshipman Francis Guillemard Simpkinson & Captain Edward Belcher by Pierce, Richard A. and John H. Winslow [Editors]

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Title
H.M.S. Sulphur at California, 1837 and 1839. Being the Accounts of Midshipman Francis Guillemard Simpkinson & Captain Edward Belcher
Author
Pierce, Richard A. and John H. Winslow [Editors]
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Argonaut Book Shop (United States)
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San Francisco: The Book Club of California, 1969 Book. Fine. Hardcover. 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 A previously unpublished account of the visit to California in 1837, taken from Simpkinson's journal and illustrated from contemporary drawings.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..