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London: L. Davis and C. Reymers, 1758. First English edition. Two octavo volumes (7 7/8 x 4 7/8 inches; 201 x 124 mm). [2], xvi, [8], 432, 453-479, 472-509, [3, advertisements], [2, blank]; [8], 420, [18, index] pp. With seven plates, six of which are folding. Contemporary full speckled calf, rebacked to style. Red morocco spine labels, lettered in gilt. Edges speckled red. Previous owner's bookplate on front pastedown of each volume. A bit of toning throughout. Browning from glue to endpapers. Overall a very good and handsome set. "This translation of Ulloa's Relacion historica... was published exactly ten years after Richard Walter's official account of the Anson Voyage (q.v.), thus giving the British a valuable addition to their small fund of knowledge about the Spanish Viceroyalty of Peru..." (Hill, 1741). Hill 1741. HBS 67187. $2,000.

San Francisco: Marvin & Hitchcock, 1852. First edition of the earliest school book published in California. Twelvemo. [2], [v]-viii, 258 pp. Publisher's quarter blind-tooled red roan over vertically-ribbed brown-purple cloth with gilt spine lettering. Spine bumped and chipped with small ink smudge. Light scattered foxing throughout (mostly on first and last few leaves). Some small, light waterstaining to the upper margin of the first half. Overall, a very good copy of this fragile and rare item. "This is believed to be the first educational work published in California after American rule" (Cowan). This text-book is preceded by two exceedingly rare Mexican-era school books in Spanish (and one of those is a Zamorano imprint). It is also significant for the fact that it was sold by one of the earliest California booksellers, Marvin & Hitchcock, Booksellers, with their ticket on the upper front pastedown. Published in the still very young city of San Francisco, it is only appropriate that the… Read More