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Price: US$85.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: 81 pages. Illustrated. Limited edition of 250 copies, of which this is #68. Folding vintage map of California and the Routes to it. Leather-backed marbled paper covered boards. Prologue and Epilogue by Franz R. Dykstra. Designed and printed by Henry Morris of the Bird & Bull Press. Bound by E. G. Parrot.Limited reprint of the 1848 first edition. A beautiful binding of an important early guide book. Cowan, pg. 589-90; Graf 3789. Pages 39-46 loose, else Fine and now in a custom clear 4-mil protective jacket. ALWAYS FREE SHIPPING via media mail to any United States address.
Seller: Hardy Books, Nevada City, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Description: Prologue and epilogue by Franz R. Dykstra. 8vo. 81, [1] pp. Original morocco-backed marbled boards. Fine. LIMITED EDITION, number 222 of 250 copies printed by Henry Morris at the Bird & Bull Press and bound by E. G. Parrott II. "Dale Morgan wrote that this early eyewitness account was actually 'an outright fraud.' The New York Volunteers never listed Henry I. Simpson as one of its members, and most of the material was drawn from Colonel Mason's well-known report or borrowed without credit from the New York Herald of December 13, 1848. Morgan further speculated that Bithell, the holder of the copyright, may have been the creator of this curious pamphlet." The original 1848 edition is one of the rarest early gold rush guides.
Seller: Riverrun Books & Manuscripts, ABAA, Ardsley, NY, U.S.A.