This image is from Grapes and Grape Vines of California. Printed in San Francisco by Edward Bosqui & Co. in 1877, this work was one of the most elaborate and beautiful California imprints up to its time. This copy was a present to the St. Louis Mercantile Library Association, which possesses broad primary and secondary research collections related to Western Americana, history, travel, and exploration as well as in the social sciences, natural history, and the history of technology. For more news of the Mercantile, see page 464.