Souvenir of the California Midwinter International Exposition .In Photo-Gravure. From Negatives taken by Permission of the Executive Committee.

New York and San Francisco: A. Wittemann and Jos.A. Hofmann, 1894 Book. Very fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. Oblong 12mo. 5x7 inches. 4 unnumbered pages plus 2-panel photographic panorama, 39 plates printed on rectos only. Beautifully decorated pictorial light brown cloth boards, silk cord tied at spine. Illustrated ad for portion of fair pasted to blank verso of panorama. A very fine and clean copy throughout. First edition. Very scarce souvenir view book of San Francisco's 1894 Midwinter Fair. The condition of this copy is very nice! The cover is beautifully illustrated with decorative panels, roses and other floral elements, printed in black, lavender, green, pink and gold. Illustrated with Albertype photographic reproductions. Includes a folding bird's-eye panorama of the entire grounds with a multitude of images of the Administration Building and Grand Court, the Bonet Electric Tower, numerous buildings and fountains around the fair, interior exhibits, the Fine Arts Building (museum), Hawaiian Village, the famous Wine Press sculpture, Japanese Tea Garden, Esquimaux Village, the Ostrich Farm, Doctor White Cloud and his Sioux Indians, and much more. [Rocq: 12875; OCLC locates 7 copies]. .