Sacramento Book Collectors Club Collection, circa 1973

Collection context

Summary

Creators:
Sacramento Book Collectors Club
Abstract:
Extent:
0.1 linear feet
Language:
Preferred citation:

Sacramento Book Collectors Club Collection. UC Davis, Special Collections

Background

Scope and content:

Typescript and proofs for the translated journals of the Duke of Wurttemberg (Friedrich Paul Wilhelm), a new world explorer and naturalist whose travels took him to Sacramento in 1851-1852. The translation was printed in an edition of 400 copies by the Grabhorn Hoyem Press and published by the Sacramento Book Collectors Club in 1973.

Biographical / historical:

Founded in 1939 by a secondhand book dealer, a schoolteacher, and a newspaperman, the Sacramento Book Collectors Club's purpose is to create finely printed editions of unique works describing Sacramento history.

Access and use

Restrictions:

Collection is open for research.

Terms of access:

All applicable copyrights for the collection are protected under chapter 17 of the U.S. Copyright Code. Requests for permission to publish or quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the Head of Special Collections. Permission for publication is given on behalf of the Regents of the University of California as the owner of the physical items. It is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which must also be obtained by the researcher.

Preferred citation:

Sacramento Book Collectors Club Collection. UC Davis, Special Collections

Location of this collection:
University of California, Davis, Special Collections, UC Davis Library
100 NW Quad
Davis, CA 95616-5292, US
Contact:
(530) 752-1621