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Book Club of California Keepsakes, 3 Sets, 1933-58 [181196]

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Book Club of California Keepsakes, 3 Sets, 1933-58 [181196]
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Three sets of Book Club of California's Limited Edition Keepsake series, includes: 1. The California Mining Towns. Oscar Lewis. 1933-34. Rare early views of towns and camps of the Gold Rush. Incomplete set of 12, includes three, along with Foreword with map of California: No. 1, Sonora; No. 7, Jackson; and No. 11, Columbia. 2. Letters of the Gold Discovery. January-December 1948. Set of 12: No. 1, Capt. John A. Sutter, Lord of new Helvetia; No. 2, The Sutter-Marshall Lease with the Yalesumney Indians for Monopoly of the Gold-Bearing Lands; No. 3, Sutter to Leidesdorff; No. 5, Edward C. Kemble to John S. Hittell; No. 5, 1848-A Letter from Thomas O. Larkin to Governor R.B. Mason; No. 6, W.D.M. Howard of San Francisco to B.T. Reed of Boston -1848; No. 7, Consul Thomas O. Larkin to Secretary of State James Buchanan; No. 8, Letter of Captain J.L. Folsom to the Secretary of the National Institute at Washington, D.C.; No. 9, Letter of Ebenezer Larkin Childs from Washington D.C. to Thomas O. Larkin, Monterey, CA; No. 10, Rodman M. Price, N.Y., to Thomas O. Larkin, Monterey, CA; No. 11, A Letter from Stephen Reynolds of Honolulu to Thomas O. Larkin of San Francisco, Nov. 1848; No. 12, Robert Semple of Benicia City to Thomas O. Larkin at Monterey. 3. Gold Rush Steamers. 1958. Set of 12, with information on each steamer and lithograph, includes: No. 1, California; No. 2, Oregon; No. 3, Empire City; No. 4, Brother Jonathan; No. 5, Golden Gate; No. 6, Union; No. 7, Georgia; No. 8, Hartford; No. 9, Golden Age; No. 10, Senator; No. 11, Goliah; and No. 12, Northern Light. Each keepsake is a loose, folded sheet which contains text and historic lithograph(s), in slip cases inserted into three binders with protective boxes. Printed by various California and Oregon companies, including Grabhorn Press (Gold Rush Steamers). Very good. [ California