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New. New Book; Fast Shipping from UK; Not signed; Not First Edition; The California Illustrated; including A Description of the Panama and Nicaragua Routes. by A Returned Californian..

University of Michigan Library. Near Fine with no dust jacket. 2001. Hardcover. Gilt-titled cloth. The Michigan Historical Reprint series. Slight corner wear. The pages which lack page numbers have them lightly pencilled. ; 6 X 0.88 X 9 inches; 224 pages .

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New York, 1853. 224pp. plus twelve plates including frontis. Original gilt cloth. Cloth sunned, bit frayed at extremities, scattered foxing (quite heavy at times). A good, sound copy. Later issue, styled "fourth thousand" on the titlepage. Howes states: "Number of plates vary in copies of all issued but 48 is the proper complement." A vivid narrative of California mining life, published at the height of the gold fever, and particularly valuable for the attractive, accurate illustrations drawn by Cooper and lithographed by Cameron. Peters remarks, "Cooper has left us a pungent, graphic record of the long trip to and from the gold fields, of the young cities he found mushrooming there, of booming San Francisco and Sacramento, of the lovely vestiges of the mission-founding padres in early California, and of the actual life of the forty-niners, with its flavor of roughing it, humor, hope, and all the luring magic of the yellow streak." Cameron, the brilliant hunchback lithographer who was addicted to… Read More

California Illustrated: Including. A Description of the Panama and Nicaragua Routes, by A Returned California - (John M Letts). 1852. New York: William Holdredge: 224 pages, includes California ConstitutionTrue first edition, copyright by John M Letts, 1852. With 48 Engravings, many with original tissue guards: "G.V. Cooper Del, On Stone by J Cameron, Litho of G. W. Lewis.NOT a library copy. No marks, inscriptions, or stamps found within. We carefully photograph our items so that you can review details of condition. After your review of the photos, please ask any questions or request additional photos from us so that you can make the best buying decision.
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