Beschreibung:

A Biographical Sketch of the Life of William B. Ide: With a Minute and Interesting Account of one of the Largest Emigrating Companies. (3000 miles over land), from the East to the Pacific Coast. And What is Claimed as the Most Authentic and Reliable Account of "the Virtual conquest of California, in June, 1846, by the Bear Flag Party" Author: Ide, Simeon Place: [Claremont, NH] Publisher: Printed for the Subscribers Date: [1880] Description: [2], 239, [1] pp. (12mo) 16.5x11 cm (6½x4¼"), original brown half morocco and cloth, title in gilt on front, all edges stained red. First Edition. Presentation copy from the author, inscribed on front blank in pencil, "To the Editor of The Evening Bulletin - This volume is respectfully inscribed in "Vindication" of a beloved Brother, by Simeon Ide." With rubberstamp of C. Beach, Bookseller, on Montgomery Street, San Francisco. With a brief pencil correction on pg. 93 apparently in Ide's hand. Printed by the author at age 86 on a handpress. According to Streeter: "This Sketch contains an account of the early years of W.B. Ide, recollections by his daughter of the family's trip across the plains to California in 1845, and an account of the Bear Flag revolt of 1846 as told by Ide to his brother in 1849, and in a letter to a Senator Wambough which, as Ide died in 1852, must have been written within a few years of the event. [An] interesting account of the overland journey of 1845 and important source on the beginnings of American rule in California in 1846." Cowan p 301; Graff 2059; Howes I4; Streeter sale 2967; Zamorano Eighty 45. Lot Amendments Condition: A bit of rubbing to spine ends and corners, very good or better. Item number: 318691a