Search Results: three years in california by colton rev walter

New York:: S. A. Rollo & Co.,, 1859.. Later edition.. publisher's cloth.. Some scattered inoffensive foxing; spine sunned with light wear to extremities; tight and sound. . 8vo,. Complete with frontispiece and 12 plates..

Stanford Univ. Press, 1949. First Edition. . Hardback. Good/Acceptable. Three Years in California by Colton, Walter Stanford Univ. Press, 1949, lst. Hardback in good condition, acceptable dust jacket. Text is clean and unmarked, binding tight, some tanning of pages due to paper used and age. Dust jacket shows signs of wear with dings, chips, nicks etc., owners name inside cover. This is the story written by Rev. Walter Colton of the U.S.N. from his diaries of his voyage to Pacific waters and California in 1845. Born in 1797 he had at 17 joined the navy to see the world. Ill health got in his way and he became a Minster, however the sea called and he saw the world from Lisbon, Messina, Constantinople and when the call came for California he accepted. This book is the story of his travels during that period.

New York: S. A. Rollo And Co. Good with no dust jacket. 1859. Hardback. Cover Worn and Soiled/base of spine damaged/flyleaf creased .

Cleaves, Macdonald & Co.: Boston, 1886. Early reprint. Hardcover. Very Good minus/Without dust jacket. All volumes octavo, 7 2/3” tall, vol. 1: 456 pages + fold out reproduction of the California Constitution; vol. 2: 441 pages; vol. 3: 389 pages; vol. 4: 408 pages; all volumes contain a few plate pages; gilt spine titles on green and brown cloth. A very good minus, generally clean, neat hard cover edition with moderate shelf wear, slight exterior soiling and , and rubbing at the fore-corner tipss, binding tight, paper moderately yellowed. Without dust jacket.

Three Years in California, Rev. Walter Colton, U. S. N., New York, A. S. Barnes & Co., 1850, 456 pp., 12mo. First edition. Fair+ condition. Embossed cloth binding with gilt-stamped cover (California state seal) and spine. Rubbed, bumped, chipped, with foxing and blurred inscription, "Sylvester Hosmer Book $6.29[?] Sylvester Hosmer Book Bought Sept. 1850". Inscription on front pastedown reads, "J. A. Leermaler 1938". Folded facsimile of the California Declaration of Rights attached and in very good condition. Before Colton's early death in 1851 at the age of 54 he had careers as Theologian, Editor, U.S.N. Chaplain and Alcalde (governor) of California during the Mexican-American War and California Gold Rush prior to statehood. (Sabin 14800)

NY: A.S. Barnes and Company. G. 1850. 1st Edition. Blind Stamped Cloth. First edition bound in black cloth with a blind stamped pattern, gold decoration on front board and gold spine lettering. Frontis plate of J ohn Sutter. Six tinted wood engravings and six black & white engraving s. 5" X 7 1/4", 456 pages. Good condition. The book is missing a fold- out facsimile page of the California Declaration of Rights else comple te. The corners have small bumps and light rubs. Spine just slightly s lanted. Soiling to the spine and covers. The pages are foxed through-o ut but are readable. .

NY: A. S. Barnes. Very Good- with no dust jacket. 1850. First Edition. Hardcover. Original red cloth stamped in blind and gilt. Points softened, rubbing, split along backstrip edge, scattered foxing. Plates and folding facsimile Declaration of Rights with a closed tear. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 456 pages .

New York: A. S. Barnes & Co, 1850. First edition. Hardcover. Very good. 456pp. Octavo [19 cm] in decorative blindstamped green cloth with gilt spine title and cover device. In attractive modern slipcase of marbled paper over sturdy boards. The front pastedown has a previous owner's bookplate and the remains of a small label. The pages are lightly foxed throughout. The text block is sporadically cracked. The preliminary pages, including the frontispiece, have very light tidemarks. Complete. All plates present. With the Declaration of Rights in the Constitution of California (with a 5" closed tear). Wright Howes, 631. The George W. Soliday Collection of Western Americana (A Descriptive Checklist by Peter Decker), II, 233. Walter Colton served as the first Alcalde of Monterey, and was the co-publisher of California's first newspaper, "The Californian.