Treasures of California Collections
San Francisco: Book Club of California, 1956.
Limited Edition.
Series of Book Club of California Keepsakes featuring twelve folders, each dealing with a book, manuscript or work of art in some California library or museum. The subject of each of these Treasures of California Collections was chosen by the author of the text, in each case, a person prominently identified with the library or museum in question.
Included here:
- Stanford University Libraries, selected by J. Terry Bender. Letter from Don Agustine Zamorano to the Alcalde del Pueblo de San Jose Guadalupe (1832)
- California Historical Society, selected by James de T. Abajian. Report of the Rat Committee of the Eureka Typographic Union of San Francisco (1855)
- California State Library, Sacramento, selected by Allan R. Ottley. The Tapeworm Ballot (1871)
- Bohemian Club Library, San Francisco, selected by John Herzog. A Communication from General Grant to General Halleck (1862)
- University of Southern California Library, selected by Lloyd A. Arvidson. The Pasadena Tournament of Roses New Year’s Day 1893 (As described by Hamlin Garland)
- Henry E. Huntington Library, selected by Robert O. Shad. The Laws of the Town of San Francisco (1847)
- Sutter’s Fort, selected by Carroll D. Hall. A “Donner” Marriage Book (1847-1849)
- Society of California Pioneers, selected by Helen S. Giffen. Blessing of the Enrequita Mine, New Almaden (Painting by Alexander Edouardt, 1859)
- Bancroft Library, selected by George P. Hammond. Gaspar de Villagra’s Historia de la Nueva Mexico (1610)
- Gleeson Library, USF, selected by William J. Monihan. S.J. Edward Bosqui’s Memoirs (1904)
- Southwest Museum, selected by Carl S. Dentzel. Kicking Bear’s Pictograph of the Custer Massacre (1898)
- University of California Library, Los Angeles, selected by Lawrence Clark Powell. The First Book Printed in Guatemala, in the year 1663
With reproductions from the original works and commentary by the selectors.
Item #90271812 single 17 x 10" leaves folded to 8-1/2 x 10" booklets, deckled fore-edges, illustrated with commentary, 5 tipped-in plates, 2 loose reproductions laid in.
Very good in folding blue cloth covered sheath and in quarter leather slipcase with raised bands and blue cloth covered boards.Price: $40.00