Title: Scharmann's Overland Journey to California Author: Scharmann, H. B. Place: [New York] Publisher: [Privately printed] Date: [1918] Description: 114 pp. Trans. from the German by Margaret Hoff Zimmermann & Erich W. Zimmerman. Frontispiece portrait, text illustrations. 6x4, original dark green cloth, spine lettered in gilt. 1 of 50 copies (unstated). First Edition in English. First published in a New York German newspaper in 1852; the first book edition, also in German, appeared in 1905. Scharmann traveled overland to California in 1849, and this account covers both the journey from St. Louis through Forts Kearny and Laramie to the west coast, and his life in the mines. Having suffered the death of his wife and infant daughter and other misfortunes, Scharmann wrote his story "to warn fellow Germans of the deceptive glitter of gold" - Kurutz. Cowan p.571; Graff 3693; Howes S149; Kurutz 559b. Mintz 406; Wagner-Camp 217b (note); Wheat Gold Rush 177. Lot Amendments Condition: Light cover wear, else fine. Item number: 194510
Title: Scharmann's Overland Journey to California Author: Scharmann, H. B. Place: [New York] Publisher: [Privately printed] Date: [1918] Description: 114 pp. Trans. from the German by Margaret Hoff Zimmermann & Erich W. Zimmerman. Frontispiece portrait, text illustrations. 6x4, original dark green cloth, spine lettered in gilt. 1 of 50 copies (unstated). First Edition in English. First published in a New York German newspaper in 1852; the first book edition, also in German, appeared in 1905. Scharmann traveled overland to California in 1849, and this account covers both the journey from St. Louis through Forts Kearny and Laramie to the west coast, and his life in the mines. Having suffered the death of his wife and infant daughter and other misfortunes, Scharmann wrote his story "to warn fellow Germans of the deceptive glitter of gold" - Kurutz. Cowan p.571; Graff 3693; Howes S149; Kurutz 559b. Mintz 406; Wagner-Camp 217b (note); Wheat Gold Rush 177. Lot Amendments Condition: Light cover wear, else fine. Item number: 194510
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