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NOTES OF A VOYAGE TO CALIFORNIA, Upham, 1878: California Gold Rush History

Description: Notes of a Voyage to California Via Cape Horn, Together with Scenes in El Dorado, 1849-1850 By Samuel C. Upham. Published in Philadelphia by the Author, 1878. 1st Edition. Hardcover. With 45 illustration plates, including double frontispiece portraits of the author and General Sutter (of Sutter's Mill fame). 594 pages. Binding is brown buckram, stamped in gold on spine. Ex-lib, with typical library plates on front endpaper, number on spine, and emboss on title page. Binding is sharp and tight with light edgewear, green marbled endpapers, tightly bound text block generally clean and sharp save for scattered light soiling. A famous account of traveling to California from the East Coast around the Cape Horn, by one of those who caught "gold rush fever." The long journey included stops in Rio de Janeiro and being driven ashore by storms in Chile, finally landing in San Francisco, quickly finding gold digging a rotten plan, and Upham relocating to Sacramento, where he helped found the Sacramento Transcript newspaper. With an appendix on pioneer journalism in California. An excellent & readable early western travelogue. All books ship boxed and cushioned. US shipping: free priority mail, signature may be required upon delivery. International shipping: tracking required, inquire for exact rates. Returns accepted, must be returned in "as shipped" condition. Ebay seller since 1999.

Price: 175 USD

Location: Foxboro, Massachusetts

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NOTES OF A VOYAGE TO CALIFORNIA, Upham, 1878: California Gold Rush HistoryNOTES OF A VOYAGE TO CALIFORNIA, Upham, 1878: California Gold Rush HistoryNOTES OF A VOYAGE TO CALIFORNIA, Upham, 1878: California Gold Rush HistoryNOTES OF A VOYAGE TO CALIFORNIA, Upham, 1878: California Gold Rush History

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Binding: Hardcover

Place of Publication: Philadelphia

Publisher: Published by the Author

Modified Item: No

Subject: Exploration & Travel

Year Printed: 1878

Original/Facsimile: Original

Language: English

Special Attributes: 1st Edition

Region: North America

Author: Samuel Upham

Country/Region of Manufacture: United States

Topic: American (US)

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