On the Ambitious Projects of Russia in Regard to North West America, with Particular reference to New Albion & New California by an Englishman

  • 1955
By Allen Press. Hammond, George P. introd
1955. San Francisco: The Book Club of California, 1955.

8vo, 79 pp. Frontispiece map, running decorative border in red Cyrillic characters. Original gray-blue boards with white parchment back, lettered in red, in clear acetate jacket as issued. Bookplate. Spine lightly age-toned, a small split in the acetate. A very good copy with the prospectus laid in.

ß Limited to 350 copies printed by the Allen Press. Magee: "Reprinted from the only recorded copy in the Bancroft Library. The author is unknown. The book is an appeal to the British Government to extend her settlements in the Pacific Northwest to forestall the Russians. Aside from this, the author gives an interesting picture of the San Francisco Bay area in the early eighteen-hundreds.

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Title

On the Ambitious Projects of Russia in Regard to North West America, with Particular reference to New Albion & New California by an Englishman

Author

Allen Press. Hammond, George P. introd

Condition

Unknown

Date

1955


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