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Title: A Memorial and Biographical History of Northern California, Illustrated. Containing a History of this Important Section of the Pacific Coast from the Earliest Period of its Occupancy to the Present Time, together with Glimpses of its Prospective Future... Author: ** Place: Chicago Publisher: The Lewis Publishing Co. Date: 1891 Description: 637 pp. Illustrated with 34 plates (including 30 steel-engraved portraits, 1 wood-engraved, and 3 from a photographs), including frontispiece. 11¼x9, original full decoratively embossed brown morocco, decoratively stamped and lettered in gilt with a gilt-vignette on the front cover, inner gilt dentelles, gilt-patterned endpapers, all edges gilt. First Edition. Front cover lettered "Pen Pictures from the Garden of the World" and the spine is lettered "Northern California, Illustrated." Lot Amendments Condition: Front joint split through with leather spine loose and front board nearly detached, tape repairs to upper portions, small chips (chiefly at ends), rubbing, white stain along bottom front edge; internally fine; binding fair to good but worthy of restoration. Item number: 163488