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Published by Gale Ecco, Sabin Americana 2/1/2012, 2012
ISBN 10: 1275693903ISBN 13: 9781275693906
Seller: BargainBookStores, Grand Rapids, MI, U.S.A.
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Paperback or Softback. Condition: New. Report of Hon. T. Butler King, on California. 0.33. Book.
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Published by Forgotten Books, 2018
ISBN 10: 1332702791ISBN 13: 9781332702794
Seller: PBShop.store US, Wood Dale, IL, U.S.A.
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PAP. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.
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Published by Legare Street Press, 2023
ISBN 10: 1021708976ISBN 13: 9781021708977
Seller: Ria Christie Collections, Uxbridge, United Kingdom
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Condition: New. In.
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Publication Date: 2022
Seller: S N Books World, Delhi, India
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LeatherBound. Condition: New. Leatherbound edition. Condition: New. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. Bound in genuine leather with Satin ribbon page markers and Spine with raised gilt bands. A perfect gift for your loved ones. Reprinted from 1850 edition. NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set. IF YOU WISH TO ORDER PARTICULAR VOLUME OR ALL THE VOLUMES YOU CAN CONTACT US. Resized as per current standards. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Pages: 82 Language: English Pages: 82.
Publication Date: 2023
Seller: True World of Books, Delhi, India
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LeatherBound. Condition: New. LeatherBound edition. Condition: New. Reprinted from 1850 edition. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. Bound in genuine leather with Satin ribbon page markers and Spine with raised gilt bands. A perfect gift for your loved ones. NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Pages: 96 Language: English.
Published by Legare Street Press, 2023
ISBN 10: 1020056118ISBN 13: 9781020056116
Seller: Ria Christie Collections, Uxbridge, United Kingdom
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Condition: New. In.
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Published by CHIZINE PUBN, 2018
ISBN 10: 137739624XISBN 13: 9781377396248
Seller: moluna, Greven, Germany
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Condition: New.
Published by Gideon and Co., Washington, D. C., 1850
Seller: T. W. Palmer Books, Eugene, OR, U.S.A.
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No Binding. Condition: Good. 2nd Edition. 22 x 13cm., 72 pp., first and last pages dust darkened, other pages faintly age darkened, otherwise very good, second and best edition according to Howes, Thomas Butler King was a Georgia politician who served in the U.S. Congress. He expected to be appointed as Secretary of the Navy under Zachary Taylor's administration, but was instead appointed Taylor's special agent to California. This report gives details of his journey across the Isthmus of Panama to California, and, more importantly, the situation of the gold fields. [HOWES K153. KURUTZ 377a. COWAN, p.330] RARE and important document relating to the history of California and the gold rush.
Published by Printed by Gideon & Co., Washington, 1850
Seller: Argonaut Book Shop, ABAA, San Francisco, CA, U.S.A.
Second and best edition, first published in Washington earlier the same year but with only 32 pages. Our copy is complete with original printed wrappers and the often-lacking errata slip. 72pp. Printed wrappers. Cover title within ornamental borders. Errata slip tipped-in. Minor crease to upper corner of cover, lower corner of cover chipped off, small reinforcement to verso of cover fore-edge, slight wear to spine. Overall, a fine and clean copy. King was the personal adviser to President Taylor on the statehood situation in California. He arrived in California on June 4, 1849 by way of the Isthmus of Panama (after resigning his seat in Congress). He became Collector of the Port of San Francisco, but left permanently in 1852. A prominent economist and politician, he touched, in his report, on every aspect of California's social and economic potential. King presents facts and figures on the region's climate, soil, agricultural products and population as well as, of course, gold. King discusses mining techniques, and seems to have visited the diggings himself. He also provides information about the various routes to reach California. An "outstanding report" (Wheat). "This report to the government by the Collector of Customs at San Francisco gave Washington its first official information on the gold strike" (Howes). "King reported on the conditions of California and its potential, and gave Washington its first official information on the gold strike King also recognized the serious plight of the miner: 'Those who purchase and ship gold to the Atlantic States make large profits: but those who dig lose what others make.'. King's text was appended to or translated for inclusion in several Gold Rush publications, including Bayard Taylor's Eldorado and Carl L. Fleischmann's Neueste Officielle Berichte" (Kurutz). [Cowan: p.330; Howes I: K-153; Howes II: K-153; Kurutz: 377b; Rocq: 16970; Wheat, Books of the California Gold Rush: 118].
Published by Gideon & Co., 1850
Seller: Anniroc Rare Books, Pasadena, CA, U.S.A.
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Soft cover. Condition: Good. 2nd Edition. Second edition. Publisher s original wrappers, including the errata slip. Spine and edges chipped, tear to front wrap along half its length, New Bedford library stamps on cover and interior. Pages quite clean, a Good copy. *** Ordinarily, an overlookable book but look again as this one has a very cool provenance. Presentation copy to possibly the original recipient of the iconic advice to make a life in the burgeoning part of our young nation. *** Compiled by the Customs Collector of San Francisco(King), this report relayed the first official information about the gold strike to the federal government. The recipient of this copy, Josiah Grinnell, started life in Vermont and New York before finding his way to Iowa. He was a steadfast abolitionist, and once helped John Brown move freed slaves on the Underground Railroad to Canada. *** Intriguingly, Grinnell, was the target of the iconic advice to Go west, young man, by another abolitionist and liberal lion of the time, Horace Greeley the one generally credited with coining the phrase. The exact origin of the phrase, and the wording of itself to Grinnell remains in some dispute - later in life he contended that Greeley actually told him, Go west, this is not the place for a young man, in reference to religious enthusiasm in New York. Whatever the case, Grinnell heeded the advice and is forever connected to the classic American phrase. *** A super-cool provenance for all history nerds.***Please email us for better pricing.***. Inscribed by Author(s).
Published by Printed by Gideon & Co., Washington, 1850
Seller: Currey, L.W. Inc. ABAA/ILAB, Elizabethtown, NY, U.S.A.
23.x14.5 cm (octavo), pp. [1-3] 4-72, errata slip tipped onto the title leaf, original tan wrappers printed in black, sewn. Second (and best) edition. "This report to the government by the Collector of Customs at San Francisco gave Washington its first official information on the gold strike" (Howes). ". outstanding report . it was widely read" (Wheat). Kurutz remarks that King who argued for the exclusion of foreigners from the mines, recognized the plight of the miners: "Those who purchase and ship gold to the Atlantic States make large profits; but those who dig lose what others make." Cowan (1933), p. 329. Howes K153. Kurutz 377b. Rocq 16970. Sabin 37840. Wheat, Gold Rush 118. Most of the spine panel is missing, tiny chip from upper fore-edge corner of the front wrapper, rear wrapper worn at corners and just a bit dusty, a very good copy. A very nice copy of this historic work. Enclosed in a custom green quarter leather clamshell box with black leather label affixed to the spine panel. (#166761).