Jacob d b stillman (8 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Good.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Palo Alto, CA: Lewis Osborne, 1967 January 1967 Binding: Hardcover 1502 OF 1950 COPIES, VERY GOOD.

Hardcover. No Dust Jacket. Limited Edition. This Edition is Limited to 1,950 copies. This Is Number 18. Clean, good binding. Illustrated fron mapped endpapers of North American, South America. Foreword by Kenneth M. Johnson. Frontispiece of the author, Dr Stillman, better known as JDB. While working as a surgeon at Bellevue Hospital, this book documents his adventure, along with hardships faced, on a 194-day ship journey on the Pacific Ocean bound for San Francisco via Cape Horn. Along with ninety-seven other passengers and the ruthless captain of the ship--in his book, âSeeking the Golden Fleece. â That volume also contains accounts of Stillman' sojourn in California from 1849-1950 and of his return by way of Nicaraugua to Baltimore. Soon after he landed in San Francisco, he made another trip on a boat across the Sacramento River with three famous Californians - Mark Hopkins, the famed San Franciso hotel owner, A. S. Marvin, partner of the eminent bookselling team of Marvin & Hitchcock, and John Rosse Browne, secretary to the Secretary of the Treasury in Washington, DC and talented artist. His book An 1850 Voyage, San Francisco to Baltimore, By Sea and Land, recounts his another epic voyage.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Near Fine. Hardback. Near Fine/Near Fine. First. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. 109 pgs; HB teal blue cloth with gold lettering in like new condition; white plain paper DJ inVG condition with some smudging on the back;This book is about thevoyages of Davis Babcock Stillman in 1850. Tells of his trails and tribulations of travel in that time.Lots of illustrations in this book.Reproductions of orginals and copies in the Bancroft Library of the University of California at Berkeley.…

Zustand: FINE. Limited first edition. Foreword by Kenneth M. Johnson. A young New York doctor's account of his 194 day voyage around Cape Horn, mainly drawn from his letters to friends and his journal. Among the other 96 passengers were Mark Hopkins, J. Ross Browne, and A.S. Marvin, who went on to co-found Marvin & Hitchcock, the prominent San Francisco booksellers. In his later life, Stillman became an important figure in the development of Southern California's wine industry. An attractive production illustrated with a frontispiece portrait, a map on the front endpapers, and drawings and engravings from the collections of the San Francisco Maritime Museum, the Peabody Museum, and the Bancroft Library of the University of California. Number 451 of 1950 individually numbered copies. 92 pp. Fine in bright blue cloth with gilt spine lettering and an image of a ship under sail on the front cover. No dust jacket.…

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. First Edition. First Edition, First Printing. Published by Lewis Osborne, 1967. Quarto. Paperback. Book is very good.

Hardcover. 92 pages. Illustrated. Foreword by Kenneth Johnson. The voyage of the "Pacific" took 194 days. There were other notable passengers who were to leave their mark on California history: Mark Hopkins, John Ross Browne, and A.S. Marvin. Limited edition, copy 1437 of 1950. Orig.blue cloth with front cover illustration in gilt. Very good.…