The Santa Fé Trail to California, 1849-1852 : the journal and drawings of H. M. T. Powell / edited by Douglas S. Watson. First edition.
San Francisco, Calif. : Book Club of California, 1931. Small folio. Fine. 13.5 x 10 incheds. New goatskin spine with original label preserved. New tan endpapers. [12], 272 p. [18] leaves of plates : ill. (some fold.), fold. maps ; 35 cm. One of 300 copies printed by E. & R Graborn, Magee, no. 158. Published at $30.00 in the middle of the Great Depression. One of the Fifty Books of the Year.
Provenance: From the collection of the late Lloyd Dinkelspiel Sr (1889-1959) and his wife, Florence Hellman Dinkelspiel (1904-1954) , granddaughter of Isaias Wolf Hellman (1842 –1920), the founder of Wells Fargo Bank. Ownership inscription on 3rd free p. Emerson Reilly, 1914. Item #51-1841
Price: $1,500.00