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BECKER, ROBERT.

Designs on the Land: Diseños of California Ranchos and Their Makers.

Place and Imprint: San Francisco: The Book Club of California, 1969.
Edition: First edition, one of 500 copies printed by Robert Grabhorn & Andrew Hoyem.
Condition: Fine copy.
Book ID: 26008

Physical Description

Oblong folio, tan suede spine, brown cloth boards, brown lettering, untrimmed. Illustrated with reproduction of 64 diseño maps and a map of California that shows the locations of the ranchos.

Comments

A companion volume to Becker's earlier Diseños of California Ranchos: Maps of Thirty-Seven Land Grants (1822-1846), and an important contribution to the scholarship of California before the Gold Rush. From the library of David and Valerie Belch.

Price: $450.00