An Account of a Visit to California, 1826-27; Reprinted from a Narrative of a Voyage to the Pacific and Beering's Strait performed in His Magesty's Ship Blossom Under the Command of Captain F.W. Beechey, in 1925, 26, 27, 28

  • 1941
By Beechey, Frederick William; William Smyth; Edith Margaret Coulter
1941. San Fransico: Book Club of California, 1941.

Folio, (12), 74 pp. With 4 color plates (including frontispiece). Grey boartds, vellum backstrip, top edge a bit gnawed, internally fine.

ß Limited to 350 copies printed at the Grabhorn Press. The historical introduction by Edith Coulter describes Beechey's visit en route to the Pacific. Coulter owned the original watercolors reproduced here for the first time.

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Title

An Account of a Visit to California, 1826-27; Reprinted from a Narrative of a Voyage to the Pacific and Beering's Strait performed in His Magesty's Ship Blossom Under the Command of Captain F.W. Beechey, in 1925, 26, 27, 28

Author

Beechey, Frederick William; William Smyth; Edith Margaret Coulter

Condition

Unknown

Date

1941


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