Author: DeGroot, Henry
Title: RECOLLECTIONS Of CALIFORNIA MINING LIFE.; Primitive Placers and First Important Discovery of Gold. The Pioneers of the Pioneers -- Their Fortune and Their Fate. Written for the Mining and Scientific Press
Description: San Francisco, Cal: Published by Dewey & Co. Office Mining and Scientific Press, 1884. 1st Edition (Cowan II, pp. 162-163; Howes D220n; Norris 948; Wheat GOLD RUSH, 56). Original publisher's printed blue paper wrappers, with wood engravings to both. Front cover illustration by Charles Nahl. Now housed in a clear archival mylar sleeve. 16 pp. Text double column. 5 captioned full-page wood engravings. Tailpiece, p. 16. 8vo. 9" x 6-1/4". Modest wear & soiling to wrappers. Small, unobtrusive tack hole to lower portion of pamphlet. A VG+ copy. Per Wheat, "crammed with gold discovery data.".
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Title: RECOLLECTIONS Of CALIFORNIA MINING LIFE.; Primitive Placers and First Important Discovery of Gold. The Pioneers of the Pioneers -- Their Fortune and Their Fate. Written for the Mining and Scientific Press
Description: San Francisco, Cal: Published by Dewey & Co. Office Mining and Scientific Press, 1884. 1st Edition (Cowan II, pp. 162-163; Howes D220n; Norris 948; Wheat GOLD RUSH, 56). Original publisher's printed blue paper wrappers, with wood engravings to both. Front cover illustration by Charles Nahl. Now housed in a clear archival mylar sleeve. 16 pp. Text double column. 5 captioned full-page wood engravings. Tailpiece, p. 16. 8vo. 9" x 6-1/4". Modest wear & soiling to wrappers. Small, unobtrusive tack hole to lower portion of pamphlet. A VG+ copy. Per Wheat, "crammed with gold discovery data.".
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Price: US$ 2475.00 Seller: Tavistock Books, ABAA
- Book number: 46974
- Book number: 46974
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