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CALIFORNIA RANCHOS AND FARMS 1846-1862: Including the Letters of John Quincy Adams Warren of 1861, Being Largely Devoted to Livestock, Wheat Farming, Fruit Raising, and the Wine Industry
Edited with an extended introduction By Paul W. Gates. First edition, first printing. First printing price "Nine Dollars" printed to the copyright page. Handsome book production that bears quality paper stock, type, and a sturdy deep-hinged sewn binding. Frontispiece with four portrait photos. Fourteen illustrations on black-and-white plates. Fascinating detailed accounts of ranches and farms in California with an abundance of annotated footnotes by Gates. Fine in bright blue over fresh green linen with gilt embossed titles and borders to the spine, blue-and-white headband and tail-band, map-illustrated end-papers; in the original, elusive, fine glassine dust jacket. Octavo; 232 pages; notes; index.
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