Author: ZIMMERMAN, W.F.A. (pseudonym of Carl Gottfried Wilhelm VOLLMER).
Title: Californie en de goudkoorts. Togten in het westen van Noord-Amerika. Het leven en de zeden der goudgravers, Mormonen en Indianen.Amsterdam, P.M. van der Made, 1864. 2 volumes. 8vo. With a tinted lithographed frontispiece to each volume. Publisher's original printed stiff paper wrappers.
Description: [8], 380; [4], 403, [1 blank] pp.Very rare first edition of the Dutch translation of a novel about the California Gold Rush, originally published in Swedish in 1862 as Kalifornien och guldfebern. Including content on the Mormons and Indians in the area. An equally rare second Dutch edition or issue was published a year later by the widow D. Kunst.Spines a bit tattered and a few occasional spots, but otherwise in very good condition.l Howes V140; Kurutz 655c; NCC (2 copies); WorldCat (5 copies, incl. the 2 in NCC).

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