Author: STILLMAN, JACOB D. B.
Title: Around the Horn to California in 1849 from His Journal and Letters
Description: Lewis Osborne, 1967. Limited Edition. Hardcover. This Edition is Limited to 1,950 copies. This Is Number 18. Clean, good binding. Illustrated fron mapped endpapers of North American, South America. Foreword by Kenneth M. Johnson. Frontispiece of the author, Dr Stillman, better known as JDB. While working as a surgeon at Bellevue Hospital, this book documents his adventure, along with hardships faced, on a 194-day ship journey on the Pacific Ocean bound for San Francisco via Cape Horn. Along with ninety-seven other passengers and the ruthless captain of the ship--in his book, “Seeking the Golden Fleece. ” That volume also contains accounts of Stillman' sojourn in California from 1849-1950 and of his return by way of Nicaraugua to Baltimore. Soon after he landed in San Francisco, he made another trip on a boat across the Sacramento River with three famous Californians - Mark Hopkins, the famed San Franciso hotel owner, A. S. Marvin, partner of the eminent bookselling team of Marvin & Hitchcock, and John Rosse Browne, secretary to the Secretary of the Treasury in Washington, DC and talented artist. His book An 1850 Voyage, San Francisco to Baltimore, By Sea and Land, recounts his another epic voyage;. G/NONE .
Keywords: Stillman, J.D. B. (Jacob Davis Babcock), 1819-1888 Ship Captains -- Diaries Voyages to the Pacific Ocean Limited Edition Book
Title: Around the Horn to California in 1849 from His Journal and Letters
Description: Lewis Osborne, 1967. Limited Edition. Hardcover. This Edition is Limited to 1,950 copies. This Is Number 18. Clean, good binding. Illustrated fron mapped endpapers of North American, South America. Foreword by Kenneth M. Johnson. Frontispiece of the author, Dr Stillman, better known as JDB. While working as a surgeon at Bellevue Hospital, this book documents his adventure, along with hardships faced, on a 194-day ship journey on the Pacific Ocean bound for San Francisco via Cape Horn. Along with ninety-seven other passengers and the ruthless captain of the ship--in his book, “Seeking the Golden Fleece. ” That volume also contains accounts of Stillman' sojourn in California from 1849-1950 and of his return by way of Nicaraugua to Baltimore. Soon after he landed in San Francisco, he made another trip on a boat across the Sacramento River with three famous Californians - Mark Hopkins, the famed San Franciso hotel owner, A. S. Marvin, partner of the eminent bookselling team of Marvin & Hitchcock, and John Rosse Browne, secretary to the Secretary of the Treasury in Washington, DC and talented artist. His book An 1850 Voyage, San Francisco to Baltimore, By Sea and Land, recounts his another epic voyage;. G/NONE .
Keywords: Stillman, J.D. B. (Jacob Davis Babcock), 1819-1888 Ship Captains -- Diaries Voyages to the Pacific Ocean Limited Edition Book
Price: US$ 13.90 Seller: Bookshop Baltimore
- Book number: 25191
- Book number: 25191