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.
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Binding: Hardcover
Place of Publication: Philadelphia
Publisher: Published by the Author
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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)
