Title: Around The Horn in '49. Journal Of The Hartford Union Mining And Trading Company. Containing The Name, Residence And Occupation Of Each Member, With Incidents Of The Voyage, &c. &c. Author: [Webster, George G.] Place: [Wethersfield, CT] Publisher: L.J. Hall Date: [1898] Description: [18], 252 pp. Illustrated with plates. Original cloth with gilt sailing ship on front cover, spine lettered in gilt. Second Edition. Cowan p.259; Howes W202 - "The original edition [1849] was largely printed during the voyage and finished in San Francisco harbor. Usually listed under the printer [John Linville Hall], but the journal was written by Webster; it was the first printed narrative of a California gold-seeker and the best record of an argonaut expedition by sea" - Howes. The present edition also describes the author's subsequent adventures in San Francisco and at the gold mines. Lot Amendments Condition: Wear, soiling, and rubbing to cloth, spine leaning a bit; toning to pages; very good. Item number: 270893
Title: Around The Horn in '49. Journal Of The Hartford Union Mining And Trading Company. Containing The Name, Residence And Occupation Of Each Member, With Incidents Of The Voyage, &c. &c. Author: [Webster, George G.] Place: [Wethersfield, CT] Publisher: L.J. Hall Date: [1898] Description: [18], 252 pp. Illustrated with plates. Original cloth with gilt sailing ship on front cover, spine lettered in gilt. Second Edition. Cowan p.259; Howes W202 - "The original edition [1849] was largely printed during the voyage and finished in San Francisco harbor. Usually listed under the printer [John Linville Hall], but the journal was written by Webster; it was the first printed narrative of a California gold-seeker and the best record of an argonaut expedition by sea" - Howes. The present edition also describes the author's subsequent adventures in San Francisco and at the gold mines. Lot Amendments Condition: Wear, soiling, and rubbing to cloth, spine leaning a bit; toning to pages; very good. Item number: 270893
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