Title: What I Saw in California. The Complete Original Narrativve and Appendix from the 1849 Appleton Edition in True Facsimile Author: Bryant, Edwin Place: Palo Alto, CA Publisher: Lewis Osborne Date: 1967 Description: Introduction by Richard H. Dillon. Plates from early lithographs & engravings; map. Cloth. Reprint of the 1849 fifth edition, which was the first of the numerous editions of Bryant's important first-hand account of travels to the far west to contain the `small woodcut map' of the gold region, although there were more general maps in two earlier editions. Graff notes that "Although this is a faithful account of an overland journey, its usefulness was marred because there was no map. The lack was supplied starting with the fifth Edition." [Cowan p.81; Graff 458; Howes B903; Kurutz 95i; Wagner-Camp 146:9; Wheat Maps of the Gold Region 67]. Lot Amendments Condition: Fine contion, Item number: 236420
Title: What I Saw in California. The Complete Original Narrativve and Appendix from the 1849 Appleton Edition in True Facsimile Author: Bryant, Edwin Place: Palo Alto, CA Publisher: Lewis Osborne Date: 1967 Description: Introduction by Richard H. Dillon. Plates from early lithographs & engravings; map. Cloth. Reprint of the 1849 fifth edition, which was the first of the numerous editions of Bryant's important first-hand account of travels to the far west to contain the `small woodcut map' of the gold region, although there were more general maps in two earlier editions. Graff notes that "Although this is a faithful account of an overland journey, its usefulness was marred because there was no map. The lack was supplied starting with the fifth Edition." [Cowan p.81; Graff 458; Howes B903; Kurutz 95i; Wagner-Camp 146:9; Wheat Maps of the Gold Region 67]. Lot Amendments Condition: Fine contion, Item number: 236420
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