Early California Travels Series

Book Description

Glen Dawson, Los Angeles, 1951-1961. Limited edition: 140 to 600 copies per volume. Fine. 7 1/2 x 5 inches, cloth or boards, usually pictorial or decorative, Complete in 50 volumes. The titles are: Notes on Upper California (Coulter); Recollections of a Pioneer (Dye); Voyage of the Heros (Duhaut-Cilly); Baja California 1533-1950 (Meadows); Observations on the Inhabitants of California (Botta); Land of Fiction (Powell); Father Kino at La Paz (Rudkin); The Indians of Los Angeles (Robinson); Vancouver in California (volumes IX, X and XXII); An Ascent of Mount Shasta (Isaacs); The Books of the Colorado River and Grand Canyon (Farquhar); Sketches in California (Ruschenberger); Antoine Robidoux (Wallace); Ferdinand Deppe's Travels in California; Statement of my Captivity Among the Californians (Tarakanoff); A Pioneer of Pioneers (Walker); A Voyage on the Colorado, 1876 (Berton); The Mormons in California (Glover); The First American Vessel in California (Wagner); Snow-Shoe Thompson (DeQuille); Camille de Roquefeuil in San Francisco (Rudkin); Franciscan Missions of Upper California (Waters); Visit to Monterey in 1842 (Maxwell); Job Printing in California (Ritchie); The Russians on the Pacific Ocean (Markoff); Letter from San Jose (White); Glances into California (Colton); Hyoryu-Ki, Floating on the Pacific Ocean (Hikozo); The American Occupation of La Paz (Meadows); California All the Way Back to 1828 (White); Memoirs of Jose Francisco Palomares; Adventures in California of Zakahar Tchitchinoff; Voyage of the Venus (Petit-Thouars); Diary of Titian Ramsay Peale; Observations on California (Sales); Crusoes of Pitcairn Island (Knowles); The 'Nonpareil' Press of T.S. Harris (Lingenfelter and Dwyer); Remarkable Adventures, California, 1845 (Heustis); The Diary of Ensign Gabriel Moraga's Expedition; El Puerto de los Balleneros (Huff); The Strange Eventful History of Parker H. French (McGowan); Log of the Courier (Cunningham); First through the Grand Canyon (Lingenfelter); the First French Expedition to California, Laperouse in 1786 (Rudkin); Letters of Lewis Granger; Northwest Coast of America and California; The Sea Diary of Fr. Juan Vizcaino to Alta California; Index. Volume XXIII has a printed dust jacket. Six volumes have plain paper or glassine dust jackets. Included with this set are several related pamphlets and prospectuses including " Prospectus and Sample Pages, Early California Travels Series" listing the first four volumes of the series, a "Check List of the Early California Travels Series, 1951-1956", a prospectus for "Vancouver In California" as well as Nos. 4, 9, and 24 of the Dawson's Book Shop Newsletter each discussing the book series.

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