Title: What I saw in California: Being a Journal of a Tour Author: Bryant, Edwin Place: New York Publisher: D. Appleton and Co. Date: 1848 Description: 455 pp. 18.5x11.5 cm (7¼x4½"), original blindstamped cloth. First Edition. Important, early account of the migration to California in the years prior to the Gold Rush, highly influential, serving as a virtual guide to the 49ers. Wagner-Camp - "...Bryant's narrative is of further interest because of its description of the life and times of American Californians before the discovery of gold." Cowan p.81; Graff 457; Howes B903; Kurutz 95a; Mintz 65; Streeter 3147; Wagner-Camp 146:1; Zamorano Eighty 12. Lot Amendments Condition: Cloth to spine flaking; foxing and soiling throughout, front hinge craked; interior very good. Item number: 256893
Title: What I saw in California: Being a Journal of a Tour Author: Bryant, Edwin Place: New York Publisher: D. Appleton and Co. Date: 1848 Description: 455 pp. 18.5x11.5 cm (7¼x4½"), original blindstamped cloth. First Edition. Important, early account of the migration to California in the years prior to the Gold Rush, highly influential, serving as a virtual guide to the 49ers. Wagner-Camp - "...Bryant's narrative is of further interest because of its description of the life and times of American Californians before the discovery of gold." Cowan p.81; Graff 457; Howes B903; Kurutz 95a; Mintz 65; Streeter 3147; Wagner-Camp 146:1; Zamorano Eighty 12. Lot Amendments Condition: Cloth to spine flaking; foxing and soiling throughout, front hinge craked; interior very good. Item number: 256893
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