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Farnham's California & Oregon pictorial ed. 1851

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Farnham's California & Oregon pictorial ed. 1851

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Author: Farnham, Thomas Jefferson
Title: Life, Adventures, and Travels in California. To which are Added the Conquest of California and Travels in Oregon. Pictorial Edition!!!
Place Published: New York
Publisher:Cornish, Lamport & Co.
Date Published: 1851
Description:

514 pp. Illustrated with wood engraved frontispiece, illustrated title page numerous other woodcut plates. (8vo) 22.5x14.5 cm (8¾x5¾"), rebound in modern imitation red leather, gilt lettering and rule on spine, all edges marbled; marbled endpapers.

The 1849 printing of this "Pictorial Edition" was the earliest illustrated edition of Farnhams's Travels in the Californias. This apparently scarcer 1851 edition includes both Gregory's Guide for California Travellers via the Isthmus of Panama and the text of the California Constitution at rear. Cowan p.203; Howes F49; Kurutz 233c; Wagner-Camp 107:6.

Condition

Foxing throughout the text, some marginal toning, a few small dampstains; very good.

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