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HOLDREDGE, Sterling M., publisher. State, Territorial and Ocean Guide Book of the Pacific. San Francisco: Sterling M. Holdredge, 1865.
8o (196 x 146 mm). 48 pages of advertisements printed on yellow, blue and pink paper. Chromolithographed title and 9 double-page maps. 19th-century black morocco-backed boards, by D. Hicks & Co., San Francisco, with their ticket (lightly rubbed). Provenance: Richard Garvey, Los Angeles (inscription dated 1883 on front free endpaper); Thomas W. Streeter (bookplate; his sale part V, Parke Bernet, 23 October 1969, lot 2906).
FIRST EDITION of this traveler's guide to the Pacific. "The maps show a remarkably detailed picture of the stage routes, stations, trails, and mining camps. The waybills of the stage lines across Nevada, Arizona, New Mexico, and Utah seem to come from previously published sources" (Wagner-Camp-Becker). Sabin 32486; Streeter sale V:2906 (this copy); Wagner-Camp-Becker 417a; Wheat Transmississippi West 5.
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FIRST EDITION of this traveler's guide to the Pacific. "The maps show a remarkably detailed picture of the stage routes, stations, trails, and mining camps. The waybills of the stage lines across Nevada, Arizona, New Mexico, and Utah seem to come from previously published sources" (Wagner-Camp-Becker). Sabin 32486; Streeter sale V:2906 (this copy); Wagner-Camp-Becker 417a; Wheat Transmississippi West 5.