Julius Howard Pratt (8 results)

Hardbound. Condition: Fair. Description: Includes a frontis plus eight additional black and white plates; one of these is a double facsimile plate shown on facing pages. Decorative chapter caps. Contains material on the California gold rush. The author was with a party who came to California in 1849 via the Panama route. He describes the journey and his time spent in the diggings, and his return trip two years later. Cowan, page 499; Mintz's Trail Number 593; Howes Final Edition Number P551. BINDNG/CONDITION: bright navy blue cloth with gilt text; the spine text is rubbed and faded, rubbing to the spine ends, and corners; the front free endpaper is missing, otherwise Good condition; no dust jacket. 8vo (about 8.25 inches tall). 287 pages.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. 287 pages. Blue cloth binding with gold lettering to front cover and spine. Pictorial frontis with text illustrations. Mild cover wear to corners and edges with spine edges rolled. Binding tight. Autobiography including author's account of California gold rush in 1849. (Cowan page 499, Mintz #593, Howes P 554, Graff 3345, Kurutz, 517.).…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Original blue cloth with gil lettering on front cover and spine. 5 1/4 X 8 1/4 inches. 287 pages. Kurutz California Gold Rush Bibliography # 517. Pratt (1821-1909) was a native of Connecticut, leaving in 1849, he sailed to San Francisco and then to Sacramento via a lumber sloop, eventually opening a store in Stockton. He returned to Connecticut in 1851. This copy also has 9 black and white plates. All plates are present and intact. Head, tail and corners are slightly bumped. The covers are slightly scuffed, however, the pages are very clean and complete. Binding is tight.…

Soft cover. Condition: VG. 1st Edition. 1890-1891, 175pp, printed in double columns, illustrated with over 90 drawings, plus 4 maps including The Western Territories in the Forties Showing the Principal Routes of Exploration, The California Coast Under the Mexican Regime, Placer Regions of California in the Fifties with an inset of San Francisco Bay and Vicinity, and the Panama Route, and 24 portraits including John Bidwell, Father De Smet, General M. G. Vallejo, General John A. Sutter, Don Juan B. Castro, Don Manuel Castro, Pio Pico, who was Governor of California in 1845, General Andres Pico, Maria De Jesus Vallejo, or Sister Maria Teresa, Maria Antonia Lugo, who was the mother of General Vallejo, Dona Vallejo, born Francisca Benicia Carrillo, who was General Vallejo's widow, Kit Carson with facsimile autograph, Jacob P. Leese, Juan B. Alvarado who was Governor, 1836 - 1842, Manuel Micheltorena, who was Governor, 1842 - 1845, James W. Marshall, Azaria Smith and Henry W. Bigler, who were survivors of the party of discovery at Sutter's Mill, Samuel Brannan, who led a colony of Mormon's to San Francisco in July, 1846, Charles Preuss, topographer on the first two Fremont expeditions, Jim Bridger, Alexis Godey, Commander J. B. Montgomery, later Rear-Admiral, Thomas H. Benton, Jessie Benton Fremont, and George Bancroft, salvaged from a damaged copy of The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine, Volume 41. Specific pieces include The First Emigrant Train To California, by General Bidwell, Grizzly And Pioneer, by Shinn, The Making Of California, anonymous, Life In California Before The Gold Discovery, by Bidwell, Ranch And Mission Days In Alta, California, by Vallejo, Trading With The Americans, by Higuera, The Date Of The Discovery Of The Yosemite, by Pratt, Pioneer Spanish Families In California, by Shinn, The Missions Of Alta, California, by Doyle, A California Lion And A Pirate, by Castro, A Carnival Ball At Monterey In 1829, by Briones, A Letter From General Sutter, by Sutter, Fremont In The Conquest Of California, by Bidwell, The Discovery Of Gold In California, by Hittell, Marshall's Own Account Of The Gold Discovery, by Gillespie, Confirming The Gold Discovery, by Kemble, Resume Of Fremont's Expedition, by M. N. O., The Origin Of The Fremont Explorations, by Jessie Benton Fremont, Rough Times In Rough Places, by McGehee, Montgomery And Fremont, by Royce, Three Gold- Dust Stories, by Marshall, To California by Panama in 1849, by Pratt, The Conquest Of California, by John Charles Fremont, The Official Policy For The Acquisition Of California, anonymous, Hardships Of The Isthmus in 1849, by Ferris, and Spanish Jealousy Of Vancouver, by Doyle. Maps by Jacob Swells, W. Taber, George Wharton Edwards, O. Toasperm, A. Brennan, V. Perard, G. D. F. Brush, Frederick Remington, A. Lambourne, and from photographs by Lieut. Harris. Set includes a contents page, and is housed in two mylar report covers. This is a tremendous set of Californiana / Western Americana, and, surprisingly, never elsewhere published in its entirety.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. 1st Ed., 287 pp., frontis., plates, cloth, vg+ HowesP-554 Graff#3345 Kurutz#517. To California in 1849, Sacramento, then Stockton, much on miming life, lawlessness, etc.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. First edition 1910, privately published by Author. Hardcover in full buckram without DJ as issued. Condition near fine inside, square tight and clean book, no markings of any kind, no foxing, no names no underlinings no highlights no bent page corners, front hinge exposed but holding well, slight wear at edges and corners, Not a reminder. 8vo, 322 pages, 9 full page plates. ASIN: B001UR1XW6.…

Leatherbound. Condition: NEW. BOOKS ARE EXEMPT FROM IMPORT DUTIES AND TARIFFS; NO EXTRA CHARGES APPLY. 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. Pages: 336. A perfect gift for your loved ones. Reprinted from 1910 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. Language: English Pages: 336.…

PRATT, JULIUS HOWARD. Reminiscences, Personal and Otherwise. [N.p.], 1910. [7], 287 p. Plates. Cloth. Front endsheet wanting. Includes a narrative of a sea trip to California in the Gold Rush of 1849 as well as much on the author's native Montclair.