Kemble john haskell editor (4 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Near Fine. 1st Edition. 8vo. xiii, 233p. Frontispiece black and white photo of Albert Gallatin Osbun, black and white map of the area in California visited by Gallatin, and a double page sketch of the Pacific Ocean drawn by Osbun. Letters; Appendix A: Persons; Appendix B: Places; Appendix C: Ships; and Index. Green cloth with gilt letters on the spine. Near fine with clean cloth, bright gilt, illustrations in fine condition, and with no internal markings. Dust jacket slightly darkened around the edges, else very good to near fine and not price-clipped. This is an account of a trw-year odyssey by an Ohio doctor to the gold mines on the Yuba and upper Sacramento rivers. The enterprise was abandoned after six months and Osbun organized an expedition to buy pigs, chickens, yams and other provisions for the San Francisco market from the natives of the Pacific Islands. This book comprises his observations on these journeys. …

Paperback. Zustand: Acceptable. 12 parts in a slipcase. Slipcase shows heavy wear and tear, rubbing and fading. Cards are near pristine.

San Francisco: Book Club of California, 1955. Folio, xviii, 68 pp. Black and white frontispiece map, 10 color plates. Original natural linen backed in red leather, backstrip lettered in gilt. Backstrip lightly rubbed, gutter of endpapers toned, very occasional foxing. Very good. § Limited to 400 copies printed by the Grabhorn Press and one of the "Fifty Books of the Year." The handsome color drawings depict scenes in California and Hawaii. Grabhorn Bibliography 578; Book Club of California 91.…

San Francisco: The Book Club of California, 1955. Folio, [i-v], vi-xviii, 68 pp. Black and white frontispiece map, 10 color plates. Original natural linen backed in red leather, backstrip lettered in gilt. Backstrip lightly rubbed, gutter of endpapers toned, original prospectus and order form laid in. Very good. § Limited to 400 copies printed by the Grabhorn Press and one of the "Fifty Books of the Year." The handsome color drawings depict scenes in California and Hawaii. Grabhorn Bibliography 578; Book Club of California 91.…