CALIFORNIA ITS PAST HISTORY; ITS PRESENT POSITION; ITS FUTURE PROSPECTS: CONTAINING A HISTORY OF THE COUNTRY FROM THE COLONIZATION BY THE SPANIARDS TO THE PRESENT TIME; A SKETCH OF ITS GEOGRAPHICAL AND PHYSICAL FEATURES AND A MINUTE AND AUTHENTIC ACCOUNT OF THE DISCOVERY OF THE GOLD REGION, AND THE SUBSEQUENT IMPORTANT PROCEEDINGS. INCLUDING A HISTORY OF THE RISE, PROGRESS, AND PRESENT CONDITION OF THE MORMON SETTLEMENTS. WITH AN APPENDIX CONTAINING THE OFFICIAL REPORTS MADE TO THE GOVERNMENT OF THE UNITED STATES.; THE EMIGRANT'S GUIDE TO THE GOLDEN LAND, SHEWING HIM WHEN TO GO, WHERE TO GO, HOW TO GO

Published by Printed for the Proprietors, and Sold by All Booksellers in Town and Country, London, England, 1850

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Octavo, 9 in. x 5.6 in., pp. [3], vi-viii, [2], 270. Illustrated with a total of four plates: two bright, hand-colored frontipieces, one additional hand-colored engraving, and one hand-colored map showing the Transmississippi West from the 42nd to the 32nd parallels. NOTE: Everything -- color frontispieces ,black and white title page, Table of Contents -- up to the map and the Introduction ("Guide to The Golden Land"), are MOUNTED. Lacks rear blank(s). Contemporary, reddish-brown stamped cloth boards rebacked with portion of original spine laid down. Boards are blind-stamped in elaborate floral design. Gilt title and blind-stamped bandlines to spine. Ex-library with (handwritten gilt) number to base of spine; no other library marks. Rubbing to boards. Corners showing. Howes F178. Sabin 9973. One of the colored frontispieces, resembling a title page, is titled: THE EMIGRANT'S GUIDE TO THE GOLDEN LAND, SHEWING HIM WHEN TO GO, WHERE TO GO, HOW TO GO. The hand-colored engravings are titled: Emigrant Party on the Road to California; Scene on a Branch of the Sacramento; and Encampment in the Valley of the Sacramento. This is the "ordinary issue" with three plates and one map.…

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CALIFORNIA ITS PAST HISTORY; ITS PRESENT POSITION; ITS FUTURE PROSPECTS: CONTAINING A HISTORY OF THE COUNTRY FROM THE COLONIZATION BY THE SPANIARDS TO THE PRESENT TIME; A SKETCH OF ITS GEOGRAPHICAL AND PHYSICAL FEATURES AND A MINUTE AND AUTHENTIC ACCOUNT OF THE DISCOVERY OF THE GOLD REGION, AND THE SUBSEQUENT IMPORTANT PROCEEDINGS. INCLUDING A HISTORY OF THE RISE, PROGRESS, AND PRESENT CONDITION OF THE MORMON SETTLEMENTS. WITH AN APPENDIX CONTAINING THE OFFICIAL REPORTS MADE TO THE GOVERNMENT OF THE UNITED STATES.; THE EMIGRANT'S GUIDE TO THE GOLDEN LAND, SHEWING HIM WHEN TO GO, WHERE TO GO, HOW TO GO
Author
Fleming, G.A.
Publisher
Printed for the Proprietors, and Sold by All Booksellers in Town and Country, London, England
Publication year
1850
Condition
Good Only
Binding
Hardcover
Edition
First Edition.
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