osbun albert (5 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: No Dust Jacket. 232 pages. Light wear and discoloring to the covers; pages toned, a little soiling to the foreedge; a good tight binding. Pieces of the jacket are laid in. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Exploration; Inventory No: 208152.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Includes dust jacket. Heavy foxing on outter ends of pages. Minor tanning on dust jacket edges.

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.

Zustand: NEAR FINE. First printing. Osbun was an Ohio doctor who traveled to California during the height of the Gold rush, as one of the leaders of a mining company. His two-year journal supplies an excellent account of both Gold Rush California and of the Pacific Islanders he encountered. It covers the ocean passage from New York to San Francisco, by way of Panama, mining on the upper Sacramento and Yuba rivers, and his expedition to buy pigs, chickens, yams and other produce for the San Francisco market from the natives of the Pacific Islands and his return by way of Mexico. Photo frontispiece, maps, several appendices with additional information on the places, persons and ships mentioned in the diary. Index. 233 pp. Very near fine in a very good dustjacket (price-clipped, slight loss of paper at the upper corner).

First Edition. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dw. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. ; 233 pages; Signed and inscribed by John Kemble. Description: xiii, 233 p. Maps. (part fold. ) port. 24 cm. Subjects: Osbun, Albert Gallatin, 1807-1862 --Diaries. Voyages to the Pacific coast. California--Gold discoveries. 3 Kg.