Title: Notes of a Voyage to California Via Cape Horn, Together with Scenes in El Dorado, in the Years 1849-1850 Author: Upham, Samuel C. Place: Philadelphia Publisher: Published by the author Date: 1878 Description: [2], 7-594 pp. Wood-engraved plates; double frontispiece portraits. (8vo), original cloth decorated and lettered in gilt, beveled edges, all edges gilt. First Edition. "A clear and detailed account of a trip to California via Cape Horn in 1849, with return via Panama in 1850. The author was one of the original proprietors of the Sacramento Transcript, and the volume contains much of interest on early California newspapers and the Sacramento squatter riots of 1850" - Zamorano Eighty. Kurutz calls the book an "important reminiscence," and notes that it was sold by subscription in an edition of 600 copies. Cowan p.652; Howes U23; Kurutz 647; Wheat Gold Rush 215; Zamorano Eighty 76. Lot Amendments Condition: Some wear and rubbing, spine sunned with a few stains; front hinge cracked, sticker on pastedown from persona library, typewritten note about the book tipped in, stamp from previous owner in purple ink, scattered foxing; very good. Item number: 263250
Title: Notes of a Voyage to California Via Cape Horn, Together with Scenes in El Dorado, in the Years 1849-1850 Author: Upham, Samuel C. Place: Philadelphia Publisher: Published by the author Date: 1878 Description: [2], 7-594 pp. Wood-engraved plates; double frontispiece portraits. (8vo), original cloth decorated and lettered in gilt, beveled edges, all edges gilt. First Edition. "A clear and detailed account of a trip to California via Cape Horn in 1849, with return via Panama in 1850. The author was one of the original proprietors of the Sacramento Transcript, and the volume contains much of interest on early California newspapers and the Sacramento squatter riots of 1850" - Zamorano Eighty. Kurutz calls the book an "important reminiscence," and notes that it was sold by subscription in an edition of 600 copies. Cowan p.652; Howes U23; Kurutz 647; Wheat Gold Rush 215; Zamorano Eighty 76. Lot Amendments Condition: Some wear and rubbing, spine sunned with a few stains; front hinge cracked, sticker on pastedown from persona library, typewritten note about the book tipped in, stamp from previous owner in purple ink, scattered foxing; very good. Item number: 263250
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