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Municipal record (1908)

San Francisco (Calif.). Board of Supervisors · San Francisco, Cal. : Board of Supervisors of the City and County of San Francisco · leaf 276

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ught books by the score,by the hundreds, by the carload; rare books, commonbooks, valuable books, worthless books, fine books, super-fine books, cheap books, and just books. There were250,000 of them, so the story goes, swept up from everybook mart and market the wide world over, one of thegreatest… … Rare volumes in the Sutro library so valuable that they are kept locked insaid to be worth $23,000. The book on the left is Fray Junipero SerraDavid i(i-72, belonged to Charles II of England. In the lower right hand in J6.^8. The bottom book is tunnel itself was completed and proved an…

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