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Pocket Letter Book from Calif. Gold Rush 1851

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Pocket Letter Book from Calif. Gold Rush 1851

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Description

Heading: (Pocket Letter Book)
Author:
Title: Gregory's Express Pocket Letter Book, Designed to Facilitate Correspondence Between Cities and Towns, and the Mining Districts in California, and all Parts of the United States....
Place Published: San Francisco
Publisher:Thompson & Hitchcock
Date Published: 1851
Description:

Unpaginated, with 20 leaves of blank paper. 12.2x7.5 cm. (4¼x3"), original black wrappers lettered in gold.

Pristine example of an unused pocket letter book from the California Gold Rush, published in San Francisco for Joseph W. Gregory, proprietor of "Gregory's United States & California Express," but printed by Nesbitt & Co. in New York. On the inside of the front wrapper is a description of Gregory's California Express, with twice monthly service between New York and San Francisco via the Isthmus; on the back wrapper are short descriptions of Gregory's San Francisco and Sacramento offices. OCLC/WorldCat lists only four copies, at Yale, Princeton, the New York Historical Society, and the Huntington Library.

Condition

Slight rubbing to a few letters on the wrappers, else fine.

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Pocket Letter Book from Calif. Gold Rush 1851

Name: Pocket Letter Book from Calif. Gold Rush 1851
SKU: 42716602
Price: 140 USD
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