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Published by Dawson's Book Shop, Los Angeles, 1965
Seller: johnson rare books & archives, ABAA, Covina, CA, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. Limited to 600 copies. A series of nine articles that ran in the San Diego Union in the spring of 1870, describing the prospects of settlement in Baja California in terms of the land, land grants, land title problems, water, people, mines, cattle, agriculture, etc. The primary source for this series was an optimistic 1861 report by Jose Matias Moreno, Commissioner of the Government and sub-prefect of La Frontera, Northern District of Lower California, which was supplemented by the surveying work of J. Ross Browne, mission records, railroads survey reports, and information from some local friends, among them Judge Benjamin Hayes. The second volume in Dawson's Baja California Travels Series. Octavo: [72] p. with a title page drawing and a folding map. Original tan cloth binding, with gilt titles. Issued without a jacket. A near Lfine copy.
Published by Dawson's Book Shop, Los Angeles, Baja California Travel Series 2., 1965
Seller: The Bookstall, Richmond, CA, U.S.A.
Book
Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. Limited Edition. Tan cloth, 5 3/4 X 8 3/4 inches, 71 pages, Map folded at rear. Very small spot to cover, else Fine. Spine lettering: "Lower California Frontier 2".