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Bruff's Gold Rush Journals and Papers

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200 $ - 300 $
Zuschlagspreis:
120 $
Auktionsarchiv: Los-Nr. 45

Bruff's Gold Rush Journals and Papers

Schätzpreis
200 $ - 300 $
Zuschlagspreis:
120 $
Beschreibung:

2 volumes. Illustrated with plates from sketches and drawings by Bruff. (8vo) 25.4x19 cm (10x7½") cloth-backed boards, spines lettered in gilt.. First Edition. "Detailed journals and drawings of a trained draughtsman and engineer, who resigned his army commission and traveled from Washington, D.C., to the diggings..." - Wheat. Howes calls it the "most elaborate of overland narratives." Bruff organized and commanded a party of sixty-six men called the Washington City and California Mining Association, leaving the nation's capital on April 2, 1849, and arriving at the Feather River on November 1 of that year. The overland journey is covered in the first volume, his experiences in the mines in the second. Howes R91; Kurutz 93a; Mattes 377; Mintz 64; Rocq 15724; Wheat Gold Rush 25. Previous owner's initials branded on foot. Ownership inscription with two signature chops on front free endpapers.

Auktionsarchiv: Los-Nr. 45
Auktion:
Datum:
23.08.2018
Auktionshaus:
PBA Galleries
1233 Sutter Street
San Francisco, CA 94109
Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika
pba@pbagalleries.com
+1 (0)415 9892665
+1 (0)415 9891664
Beschreibung:

2 volumes. Illustrated with plates from sketches and drawings by Bruff. (8vo) 25.4x19 cm (10x7½") cloth-backed boards, spines lettered in gilt.. First Edition. "Detailed journals and drawings of a trained draughtsman and engineer, who resigned his army commission and traveled from Washington, D.C., to the diggings..." - Wheat. Howes calls it the "most elaborate of overland narratives." Bruff organized and commanded a party of sixty-six men called the Washington City and California Mining Association, leaving the nation's capital on April 2, 1849, and arriving at the Feather River on November 1 of that year. The overland journey is covered in the first volume, his experiences in the mines in the second. Howes R91; Kurutz 93a; Mattes 377; Mintz 64; Rocq 15724; Wheat Gold Rush 25. Previous owner's initials branded on foot. Ownership inscription with two signature chops on front free endpapers.

Auktionsarchiv: Los-Nr. 45
Auktion:
Datum:
23.08.2018
Auktionshaus:
PBA Galleries
1233 Sutter Street
San Francisco, CA 94109
Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika
pba@pbagalleries.com
+1 (0)415 9892665
+1 (0)415 9891664
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