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Dembour and Gangel; Bransten, Joseph M.; Wilson, Adrian; Wilson, Joyce Lancaster (Translator; Hand Coloring); Wilson, Melissa (Hand Coloring) : Mines d'Or de la Californie: A Broadside Published by Dembour and Gangel at Metz and Paris ca. 1850

The Roxburghe Club of San Francisco and The Zamorano Club of Los Angeles, San Francisco, CA, 1974

Limited edition. One of 350 copies. Text is in English and French. Original publisher's beige wrappers. Deckle edge. 8 3/4" x 13 1/2." Eight unnumbered pages, complete. One color illustration, complete. Pages and covers are very clean and intact except for a slight bit of wrinkling. A Fine copy. Colophon in the back: "Three-hundred and fifty copies have been printed by Adrian Wilson with the assistance of Clifford Burke at the Press in Tuscany Alley, San Francisco, for presentation by Joseph M. Bransten and Adrian Wilson to the members of the Zamorano and Roxburghe Clubs at their joint meeting in Los Angeles in September 1974. The types are Cristal from Deberny & Peignot, Paris, and Van Dijck composed by Mackenzie & Harris, Inc. The papers are Tweedweave and Colophon text from the Butler Paper Company." This pamphlet contains a facsimile broadside that was originally published by Dembour & Gangel around 1850. The Introduction by Joseph M. Bransten and Adrian Wilson explains the provenance of the facsimile, "During 1973 an exhibition from the Department of Prints and Drawings at the Bibliotheque Nationale of Paris was held at the California Palace of the Legion of Honor in San Francisco. Joseph M. Bransten, a member of the Roxburghe Club, took particular delight in a colorful broadside titled Mine d'Or de la Californie which gave a distinctly French view of life and mining in this region in 1850. He conceived the idea that it might be reproduced, with a translation, for the 1974 joint meeting of the Roxburghe and Zamorano Clubs. He asked his fellow-Roxburgher Adrian Wilson if he would secure permission to reproduce it during the latter's research summer in Europe. ... Joyce Lancaster Wilson translated it without any recognition of the strange faraway land it described. At home in Tuscany Alley she and Melissa Wilson added the coloring to the picture." The broadside describes some of California's geography, history, and its gold mines during the Gold Rush. The facsimile is followed by the English translation.. Book. Book Condition: Collectible-Fine. Binding: Soft cover

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