EXPOSITION ADDRESSED TO THE CHAMBER OF DEPUTIES OF THE CONGRESS OF THE UNION BY SENOR DON CARLOS ANTONIO CARRILLA, DEPUTY FOR ALTA, CALIFORNIA, CONCERNING THE REGULATION AND ADMINISTRATION OF THE PIOUS FUND.
- San Francisco: n.p., 1938.
- small 4to.
- quarter cloth with paper-covered boards and spine label, dust jacket
- xx, 15+(1) pages
Price: $20.00 other currencies
Order Nr. 70023
Printed by John Henry Nash on Van Gelder hand-made paper in an edition limited to 650 copies. Translated from the original 1831 pamphlet, and with an introduction by Herbert Ingram Priestly, Librarian of the Bancroft Library, University of Calilfornia, Berkeley. Head-piece illustrations by William F. Rauschnabel. This is one of four books of Californiana, prepared with the assistance of Priestley, and issued by Nash before he closed his San Francsico shop permanently in 1938. Bookplate of previous owner on front pastedown endpaper. Near fine. From the private reference library of Dorothy Sloan with a commemorative bookplate loosely inserted.