San Francisco Album: Photographs Of The Most Beautiful Views And Public Buildings
by Fardon Robinson, George
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- VG+ (edge-wear to lower boards; upper corner creased. dustjacket has edge-wear, scuffs & scratches)
- ISBN 10
- 1881337065
- ISBN 13
- 9781881337065
- Seller
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Columbia, Pennsylvania, United States
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About This Item
San Francico / New York: Fraenkel Gallery / Hans P. Kraus, Jr Inc, 1999. Hardcover. VG+ (edge-wear to lower boards; upper corner creased. dustjacket has edge-wear, scuffs & scratches). square, red cloth boards w/ black spine printing. 175 pgs w/ bw illustrations. illustrated & red dustjacket. In the early 1850s, a British photographer arrived in San Francisco and became fascinated with the changing face of the city, which he captured in some of the earliest photographs on paper ever made in the United States. George Robinson Fardon's San Francisco Album documents a time of rapid growth and burgeoning prosperity in the wake of the California Gold Rush. As the earliest published photographic record of an American city, it is a work of both historic signficance and pioneering artistry.--WorldCat.
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- Mullen Books, Inc. ABAA / ILAB (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 189082
- Title
- San Francisco Album: Photographs Of The Most Beautiful Views And Public Buildings
- Author
- Fardon Robinson, George
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - VG+ (edge-wear to lower boards; upper corner creased. dustjacket has edge-wear, scuffs & scratches)
- Quantity Available
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 1881337065
- ISBN 13
- 9781881337065
- Publisher
- Fraenkel Gallery / Hans P. Kraus, Jr Inc
- Place of Publication
- San Francico / New York
- Date Published
- 1999
- Keywords
- Photography, photography of san francisco, george fardon robinson ; Fardon Robinson, George ; ;
- Bookseller catalogs
- Photography;
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About the Seller
Mullen Books, Inc. ABAA / ILAB
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