Title: Eldorado, Or, Adventures in the Path of Empire: Comprising a Voyage to California, Via Panama; Life in San Francisco and Monterey; Pictures of the Gold Region, and Experiences of Mexican Travel Author: Taylor, Bayard Place: New York Publisher: George P. Putnam Date: 1850 Description: 2 volumes. xii, 251; [2], 247 + 45 ad pp. Illustrated with 8 tinted lithograph plates, including frontispieces (view of San Francisco in 1848 and 1849). 7¾x5, original blind-stamped green cloth, spines lettered in gilt. Vol. I is the First Edition, Vol. II the Second Edition. One of the most influential and widely read books on the California Gold Rush. A successful author and correspondent with the New York Tribune, Bayard Taylor went to California specifically to record the Gold Rush. The Zamorano Eighty notes that "This work by an eminent writer and artist is probably the outstanding book on the early gold rush in California. The author's description of the Constitutional Convention at Monterey is the best we have, as are also the views he gives us of the earliest mining camps. The colored plates are beautifully tinted works of art depicting San Francisco, Monterey, Sacramento, and the mining camps. Bayard Taylor saw everything and recorded everything he saw." Cowan p.630; Graff 4074; Howes T43; Kurutz 618a; Sabin 94440; Streeter 2654; Wheat Gold Rush 204; Zamorano Eighty 73. Lot Amendments Condition: Rubbing, shelf wear, gilt lettering faded, spine ends and corners bumped, splits to Vol. II front joint; scattered foxing, Vol. I front hinge cracked plus white cloth tape repair at front endpaper (small stain on cover), early owner's signatures; else good or better. Item number: 188710
Title: Eldorado, Or, Adventures in the Path of Empire: Comprising a Voyage to California, Via Panama; Life in San Francisco and Monterey; Pictures of the Gold Region, and Experiences of Mexican Travel Author: Taylor, Bayard Place: New York Publisher: George P. Putnam Date: 1850 Description: 2 volumes. xii, 251; [2], 247 + 45 ad pp. Illustrated with 8 tinted lithograph plates, including frontispieces (view of San Francisco in 1848 and 1849). 7¾x5, original blind-stamped green cloth, spines lettered in gilt. Vol. I is the First Edition, Vol. II the Second Edition. One of the most influential and widely read books on the California Gold Rush. A successful author and correspondent with the New York Tribune, Bayard Taylor went to California specifically to record the Gold Rush. The Zamorano Eighty notes that "This work by an eminent writer and artist is probably the outstanding book on the early gold rush in California. The author's description of the Constitutional Convention at Monterey is the best we have, as are also the views he gives us of the earliest mining camps. The colored plates are beautifully tinted works of art depicting San Francisco, Monterey, Sacramento, and the mining camps. Bayard Taylor saw everything and recorded everything he saw." Cowan p.630; Graff 4074; Howes T43; Kurutz 618a; Sabin 94440; Streeter 2654; Wheat Gold Rush 204; Zamorano Eighty 73. Lot Amendments Condition: Rubbing, shelf wear, gilt lettering faded, spine ends and corners bumped, splits to Vol. II front joint; scattered foxing, Vol. I front hinge cracked plus white cloth tape repair at front endpaper (small stain on cover), early owner's signatures; else good or better. Item number: 188710
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