Naval sketches of the war in California
Subtitle: reproducing twenty-eight drawings made in 1846-47
By: by William H. Meyers ... descriptive text by Capt. Dudley W. Knox ... introduction by Franklin D. Roosevelt.
Contributors: Knox, Dudley Wright, 1877-1960.; Roosevelt, Franklin D. 1882-1945.
Publisher: Random House
Published: 1939
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 39
Subjects: Dale (Sloop of war); Mexican War, 1846-1848 -- Naval operations; Mexican War, 1846-1848 -- Pictorial works; California -- History -- 1846-1850
Genres: Pictorial works.
Notes: "Sources": p. [4] at end.
Plates I-X, XII-XIII, XV-XXIV each accompanied by leaf with descriptive letterpress.
Sketches now published for the first time from the original sketch book of Gunner William H. Meyers in the possession of Franklin D. Roosevelt. cf. Introd.
"One thousand copies printed at the Grabhorn press, San Francisco, 1939."