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Author: Revere, Joseph Warren
Title: A Tour of Duty in California; including a Description of the Gold Region: and an Account of the Voyage around Cape Horn...
Place Published: New York; Boston
Publisher:C. S. Francis & Co.; J.H. Francis
Date Published: 1849
Description: [4], vi, [2], 305 + [6] ad pp.With 6 lithographed plates, including frontispiece; tissue guards plus folding map. 19x12 cm (7½x4½"), original blind-stamped cloth, spine lettered in gilt. First Edition.Early and important observations of California during the Gold Rush and the period preceding it. Map titled "Harbour of San Francisco California" measures 33x25.5 cm (13x10"). Ex-libris ink stamps and stickers present.The Zamorano 80 notes that "Lieutenant Revere was a graduate of Annapolis and a grandson of Paul Revere. His Tour of Duty is one of the outstanding authorities on the period of the Conquest, and his descriptions of California and the gold regions are of the best. The book contains valuable chapters on land law and land titles, as well as the complete report of Col. Mason on the gold fields." Streeter says that "this is one of the most important books on the Gold Rush and figures on most selected lists." Cowan p.530; Graff 3474; Howes R222; Kurutz 529a; Sabin 70182; Streeter 2592; Wheat Gold Rush 165; Zamorano 80 #63.

Light sunning and wear to cloth; faint marginal damp staining and page damage, text and images unaffected, small stub tear to map, no paper loss; very good.