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Author: Taylor, Bayard
Title: Eldorado, Or, Adventures in the Path of Empire: Comprising a Voyage to California, Via Panama; Life in San Francisco and Monterey; Pictures of the Gold Region, and Experiences of Mexican Travel
Place Published: London
Publisher:Richard Bentley
Date Published: 1850
Description:

2 volumes. xii, 251; [2], 247 pp. Illustrated with 8 tinted lithograph plates including tissue guards. 19.5x12.5 cm (7¾x5"), original blind-stamped orange cloth, spines lettered in gilt. First British Edition.

The Zamorano Eighty notes that "This work by an eminent writer and artist is probably the outstanding book on the early gold rush in California. The author's description of the Constitutional Convention at Monterey is the best we have, as are also the views he gives us of the earliest mining camps. The colored plates are beautifully tinted works of art depicting San Francisco, Monterey, Sacramento, and the mining camps. Bayard Taylor saw everything and recorded everything he saw." Howes T43; Kurutz 618c; Sabin 94440; Streeter 2654; Wheat Gold Rush 204; Zamorano 80 #73. Ink ownership marks of previous owner on front blank leaf of second volume.

Slight leaning to spines, touches of rubbing and wear to cloth, corners bumped; hinges tender or cracking, scattered foxing, many lost tissue guards have been replaced with loose acetate guards; very good.