AN ILLUSTRATED HISTORY OF SAN JOAQUIN COUNTY, CALIFORNIA. Containing a History of San Joaquin County from the Earliest Period of its Occupancy to the Present Time, together with Glimpses of its Future Prospects; with Full-Page Portraits of Some of its mo by ( San Joaquin County )
- Bookseller: Maxwell's Bookmark
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- Seller Inventory #: 25912
- Format: Originally bound in full blind and gilt leather. Gilt edges. Cover embossed in gold "Pen Pictures From The Garden Of The World." This copy has been expertly rebound afixing original front & back leather to new binding material
- Book condition: The first "mug book" of local citizens and the second full length history of the county. One of the two scarcest of t
- Jacket condition: Expertly restored preserving the original leather front and back panels. All new spine and end papers.
- Edition: 1st edition
- Binding: Hardcover
- Publisher: Lewis Publishing Co
- Place: Chicago:
- Date published: 1890
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Chicago:: Lewis Publishing Co, 1890. 1st edition. Originally bound in full blind and gilt leather. Gilt edges. Cover embossed in gold "Pen Pictures From The Garden Of The World." This copy has been expertly rebound afixing original front & back leather to new binding material. The first "mug book" of local citizens and the second full length history of the county. One of the two scarcest of this county's histories/Expertly restored preserving the original leather front and back panels. All new spine and end papers. . Engravings throughout. Image of the courthouse supplied in facsimile.
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