Truman, Major Ben C.

Semi-Tropical California: Its Climate, Healthfulness, Productiveness, and Scenery; Its Magnificent Stretches of Vineyards and Groves of Semi-Tropical Fruits, Etc.

San Francisco. A.L. Bancroft and Company. 1874. The First Edition. 8vo. 5.75" x 9.0". Bound in pictorial gilt decorative cloth with elaborate gilt tooled rural fruit picking vignette to front cover. Front cover decoration blind embossed to rear cover. Decorative titles to spine.

Presentation copy from W.B. Bancroft to J.J. Truman (presumably a relative of the author). Presentation inscription in ink to front-free endsheet.

Head and tailpieces very lightly worn. A remarkably Fine copy of this rare title.

Item #8674