Publication: Goodall, Perkins & Company, 1896, San Francisco
First edition. 9 1/4" x 6 1/8" in color pictorial wrappers showing steamers against Alaska glaciers and also along the Baja California Coast. Rear wrapper shows photograph of The Palace Hotel in San Francisco. 75 [1]pp. Index. Illustrations. Deck plans. Advertisements. Guidebook offers descriptions of steamers and information on various cities, ports, etc. visited on the Alaska Route, the British Columbia and Puget Sound Route, the Portland Route, the Eureka or Humboldt Route, the San Francisco-San Diego Route, the San Francisco-Newport Route, and the San Francisco and Mexican Route, to include Straits of Fuca, Seattle, Tacoma, Vancouver, Victoria, Portland, Astoria, Eureka, Humboldt Bay, Port Hartford, Santa Barbara, Port Los Angeles, Redondo, San Diego, San Luis Obispo, Los Alamos, Santa Cruz, Monterey, Sana Barbara, Ventura, La Paz, Santa Rosalia, Guaymas, Altata, etc. Illustrations of various steamers, Glacier Bay and the Muir Glacier, Alaska Glacier, Seattle, Portland, Santa Monica, Port Hartford, etc. the Steamship "Queen" at Juneau, Wrangell Island, Sitka, etc. Deck plans include the steamers "Queen," "City of Topeka," S.S. Al-Ki," "S.S. City of Puebla," "Walla Walla," "Umatilla," etc. Offers a distance sheet on the Pacific Coast, both North and South of San Francisco. Not in Kurutz. An uncommon steamship guidebook. Light soiling to wrappers along with light chipping to edges of rear wrappers and to spine. "10" lightly written in red to top edge of front wrapper along with faint small previous owner stamp. Very good.
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