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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 Published: New York Publisher: George P. Putnam Date Published: 1850 Description: 2 volumes. Each with a frontispiece and three plates. xii, 251; [2], 1-4, [2], [5]-247, 1-13, 13a, 14-17, 17a, 18-43, [44-45] publisher's catalog pp. (8vo) green cloth. First Edition. Few lines of a poem inscribed, dated and signed by the author tipped in to first blank. First Edition in accordance with publisher's catalog at rear of Volume II. BAL 19638. 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. Howes T43; Kurutz 618c; Sabin 94440; Streeter 2654; Wheat Gold Rush 204; Zamorano 80 #73. 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." This second American edition is the same imprint, date and collation as the first edition, though it has a few advertisement leaves at the end of the second volume. Condition: Spines sunned, tips chipped; ownership marks, front hinge in vol. 1 starting, small tear in margin of frontispiece repaired on verso; very good. Item#: 353176 Headline: Bayard Taylor's El Dorado, 1st ed., signed