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Title: Seventy-five Years in California. A History of Events and Life in California: Personal, Political and Military; Under the Mexican Regime; During the Quasi-Military Government of the Territory by the United States, and after the admission of the State to the Union. Author: Davis, William Heath Place: San Francisco Publisher: John Howell Date: 1929 Description: xxxii, 422 pp. Ed. & with historical foreword & index by Douglas S. Watson. Illus. with numerous plates of facsimile letters, reproductions of engravings, photographs, etc.; folding facsimile of the California Star, March 15th, 1848 (1st local mention of gold discovery). This edition extra-illustrated with documents, as indicated below. 10½x7, half linen & boards, paper spine label. No. 187 of the 100 copy Argonaut Edition, from a run of 2250 copies. Second Edition. Signed by Howell and Watson on limitation leaf. Superb edition of the work first published in 1889 as Sixty Years in California, with textual additions & numerous new illustrations and facsimiles. This Argonaut Edition with additional items including a page of the original manuscript, a receipt made out to Davis, and the broadside announcing martial law in San Francisco immediately after the 1906 earthquake and fire. Adams Herd 659; Cowan p.160; Graff 1020; Howes D136; Kurutz 170b; Zamorano 27 Lot Amendments Condition: Corners and edges worn; offsetting to opposing pages from tipped in broadside and facsimile newspaper; else very good. Item number: 180037