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Hardcover. Zustand: Fair. First Edition. WITHOUT MAP. 356pp.; 12mo; original brown cloth, spine lettered & decorated in gilt. Wear with loss to spine ends; spine gilt dulled; front endpaper partially glued to pastedown, showing stains, a booksellers handstamp; couple of signatures sprung but binding othwerwise firm. Decent working copy. According to the Preface: In April, 1853, the author proceeded to California, as the commercial agent of several extensive mercantile houses in New York city. In the discharge of his commission he visited the principal cities and villages of the state . . . He also traversed various parts of the mining regions and sojourned with the miners." Also gives a description of San Francisco and its lurid side. [Kurutz: 116; Cowan II, p. 104].…

hardcover. Zustand: good. First. Climate.Towns.Agriculture, Commerce, Mines, Mining &c. With a Journal of the Voyage from New York, via Nicaragua, to San Francisco, and Back via Panama. xi, 356pp. 12mo, original brown cloth, spine ends and edges of corners worn, cloth lightly soiled, corners bumped. Boston: John P. Jewett, 1854. First Edition. This copy lacks the folding map. Contains two chapters on San Francisco and two chapters on gold mines and miners. Howes C-127. Graff 580. Cowan p. 104. …