TAYLOR, Bayard (1825-1878). Eldorado, or, Adventures in the Path of Empire: Comprising a Voyage to California, via Panama; Life in San Francisco and Monterey; Pictures of the Gold Region, and Experiences of Mexican Travel . New York: George P. Putnam, 1850.
TAYLOR, Bayard (1825-1878). Eldorado, or, Adventures in the Path of Empire: Comprising a Voyage to California, via Panama; Life in San Francisco and Monterey; Pictures of the Gold Region, and Experiences of Mexican Travel . New York: George P. Putnam, 1850. 2 volumes, 8 o (191 x 129 mm). 8 tinted lithographs. (Some spotting.) Original slate-blue blind-stamped cloth (some wear, spines darkened). Provenance : Henry E. Huntington (pencil note on rear endpaper "H.E.H. dup"); Thomas W. Streeter (bookplate; penciled notations on endpapers; his sale part V, Parke Bernet, 23 October 1968, lot 2654; purchased from Edward Eberstadt & Sons, 1947). FIRST EDITION, WITH AN AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED BY TAYLOR TIPPED-IN, 3 pages, 8vo, Placerville, Calif., to an unknown recipient, "My Dear Dick." Taylor notes that he has written a reply to the Boston Post : "I keep my temper admirably, and spare the ass, Mountfort..." and describes his lecture tour through California: "I came hither from Sacramento to-day.-- another day of fierce heat and awful, blinding, choking dust. I have ten days more of such work in the mountains, and then to San Francisco and home. I shan't make as much as I expected, but don't regret coming. I may clear $4000 by the trip... I am disgusted with the process of getting up lectures myself, in mining towns. It's a terribly shabby, nasty business, and humiliates me immensely..." BAL 19638; Cowan II p.630; Graff 4073; Hill 1674; Howes T-43; Peters California on Stone pp.196-97; Streeter sale V:2654 (this copy); Wheat Gold Rush 204; Zamorano 80 , 73. (2)
TAYLOR, Bayard (1825-1878). Eldorado, or, Adventures in the Path of Empire: Comprising a Voyage to California, via Panama; Life in San Francisco and Monterey; Pictures of the Gold Region, and Experiences of Mexican Travel . New York: George P. Putnam, 1850.
TAYLOR, Bayard (1825-1878). Eldorado, or, Adventures in the Path of Empire: Comprising a Voyage to California, via Panama; Life in San Francisco and Monterey; Pictures of the Gold Region, and Experiences of Mexican Travel . New York: George P. Putnam, 1850. 2 volumes, 8 o (191 x 129 mm). 8 tinted lithographs. (Some spotting.) Original slate-blue blind-stamped cloth (some wear, spines darkened). Provenance : Henry E. Huntington (pencil note on rear endpaper "H.E.H. dup"); Thomas W. Streeter (bookplate; penciled notations on endpapers; his sale part V, Parke Bernet, 23 October 1968, lot 2654; purchased from Edward Eberstadt & Sons, 1947). FIRST EDITION, WITH AN AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED BY TAYLOR TIPPED-IN, 3 pages, 8vo, Placerville, Calif., to an unknown recipient, "My Dear Dick." Taylor notes that he has written a reply to the Boston Post : "I keep my temper admirably, and spare the ass, Mountfort..." and describes his lecture tour through California: "I came hither from Sacramento to-day.-- another day of fierce heat and awful, blinding, choking dust. I have ten days more of such work in the mountains, and then to San Francisco and home. I shan't make as much as I expected, but don't regret coming. I may clear $4000 by the trip... I am disgusted with the process of getting up lectures myself, in mining towns. It's a terribly shabby, nasty business, and humiliates me immensely..." BAL 19638; Cowan II p.630; Graff 4073; Hill 1674; Howes T-43; Peters California on Stone pp.196-97; Streeter sale V:2654 (this copy); Wheat Gold Rush 204; Zamorano 80 , 73. (2)
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