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Thornton's Oregon & California 1st Edition w/ Colton
Thornton's Oregon & California 1st Edition w/ Colton
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Author: Thornton, J. Quinn
Title: Oregon and California in 1848: With an Appendix Including Recent and Authentic Information on the Subject of the Gold Mines of California
Place Published: New York
Publisher:Harper & Brothers
Date Published: 1849
Description:

Two volumes. ix,[1], [13]-393; 379 + [12] ad pp. Illustrated with 12 wood-engraved plates; folding lithographed map. (8vo) 19.5x12.5 cm (7¾x5"), original blindstamped brown cloth, spines lettered in gilt. First Edition.

The Doheny copy, with Estelle Doheny's gilt lettered morocco bookplate on blank page at front of each volume. Important early work on the California gold fields, also containing the first fairly lengthy account of the Donner tragedy, although the disaster was mentioned previously in Edwin Bryant's What I Saw in California. "Thornton was one of the real pioneers of Oregon and California, arriving in Oregon in 1846. He has always been considered a good authority and his work is among the best of the times" - Zamorano. The information on the gold mines is based on accounts by Thomas O. Larkin, R.B. Mason, and others. The folding map is by J.H. Colton, "Map of California, Oregon, Texas, and the Territories adjoining with Routes &c." The central valley of California and the gold producing regions are colored yellow. Cowan p.638; Howes T224; Kurutz 632a; Streeter 3155; Wagner-Camp 174:1; Wheat Books 208; Wheat Maps of Gold Region 73; Wheat Transmississippi 593; Zamorano Eighty 74

Condition
Light wear and soiling to cloth with mild corner bumps, light rubbing to edges, large areas of browning/offsetting to endpapers, interiors with toning to edges, scattered faint foxing; map with 2" closed tear at stub, some toning, area of creasing in bottom margin; very good.
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