Title: Life on the Plains and among the Diggings; Being the Scenes and Adventures of an Overland Journey to California: with particular Incidents of the Route, Mistakes and Sufferings of the Emigrants, the Indian Tribes, the Present and the Future of the Great West Author: Delano, Alonzo Place: Auburn & Buffalo Publisher: Miller, Orton & Mulligan Date: 1854 Description: 384 pp. Illustrated with 4 wood-engraved plates, including frontispiece. (8vo), original blindstamped brown cloth, spine gilt. First Edition, Second Thousand. "Alonzo Delano... crossed the Missouri River at Saint Joseph in mid-April of 1849 and entered California by way of Lassen's Cutoff, arriving on the Feather River on September 9. He became a well-known and prosperous banker in Grass Valley, where he finally made his home..." - Wagner-Camp. Cowan p.163; Graff 1042; Howes D230; Kurutz 177a; Rocq 6041; Sabin 19348; Wagner-Camp 238:2; Wheat Books 57. Same imprint and collation as first issue. Lot Amendments Condition: Binding worn, spine chipped; lacking a large portion of the frontispiece; good. Item number: 270984
Title: Life on the Plains and among the Diggings; Being the Scenes and Adventures of an Overland Journey to California: with particular Incidents of the Route, Mistakes and Sufferings of the Emigrants, the Indian Tribes, the Present and the Future of the Great West Author: Delano, Alonzo Place: Auburn & Buffalo Publisher: Miller, Orton & Mulligan Date: 1854 Description: 384 pp. Illustrated with 4 wood-engraved plates, including frontispiece. (8vo), original blindstamped brown cloth, spine gilt. First Edition, Second Thousand. "Alonzo Delano... crossed the Missouri River at Saint Joseph in mid-April of 1849 and entered California by way of Lassen's Cutoff, arriving on the Feather River on September 9. He became a well-known and prosperous banker in Grass Valley, where he finally made his home..." - Wagner-Camp. Cowan p.163; Graff 1042; Howes D230; Kurutz 177a; Rocq 6041; Sabin 19348; Wagner-Camp 238:2; Wheat Books 57. Same imprint and collation as first issue. Lot Amendments Condition: Binding worn, spine chipped; lacking a large portion of the frontispiece; good. Item number: 270984
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