Colvocoresses, George M. - Four Years in a Government Exploring Expedition; to the Island of Madeira, Cape Verd Islands, Brazil, Coast of Patagonia, Chili, Peru, Paumato Group, Society Islands, Navigator Group, Australia, Antarctic Continent, New Zealand, Friendly Islands, Fejee Group, Sandwich Islands, Northwest Coast of America, Oregon, California, East Indies, St. Helena, &C. , &C. In One Volume

New York, Cornish, Lamport & Co. Publishers, 1852. First Edition. Hardcover. 371, [1] + [3]pp of publisher's advertisements. Original black cloth stamped in blind on the front and the rear panel, and lettered and decorated in gold on the spine panel. Lacks front free endpaper, blanks, and frontispiece, which is given in facsimile. With seventeen plates (of nineteen) with engravings (four inserted, the others are part of the pagination). Chapters include Overland Expedition to San Francisco, California After the Discovery of Gold, General Observations on California, Conquest of California by the United States, and more. Name in pencil on front pastedown endpaper (S. E. Severson of Racine, Minnesota). Old damp stains to fore and top edge and covers, light scattered foxing and smudges, rear endpapers soiled and with pencil scribbles, front hinge weak. Howes C635. Sabin 14907.; Octavo. .

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