Title: Way Sketches Containing Incidents of Travel Across the Plains, from St. Joseph to California in 1850. With Letters Describing Life and Conditions in the Gold Region. With historical notes compiled from rare sources and an introduction by Edward Eberstadt Author: Sawyer, Lorenzo Place: New York Publisher: Edward Eberstadt Date: 1926 Description: 125, [1] pp. Frontispiece portrait from engraving. (8vo), original tan cloth-backed boards, spine and front cover lettered in gilt. One of 385 copies, printed at the Kelmscott Press, NY. First Edition in Book Form. First published in The Family Visitor of Cleveland and Hudson Ohio in 1850 and 1851, noted in Wagner-Camp as "one of the most readable of all the overland accounts of the gold-rush days." Sawyer went on to become Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of California. Cowan p. 570; Graff 3687; Howes S133; Kurutz 556; Mintz 403; Wagner-Camp 191 (note). Lot Amendments Condition: Light wear, endpapers foxed; very good. Item number: 260301
Title: Way Sketches Containing Incidents of Travel Across the Plains, from St. Joseph to California in 1850. With Letters Describing Life and Conditions in the Gold Region. With historical notes compiled from rare sources and an introduction by Edward Eberstadt Author: Sawyer, Lorenzo Place: New York Publisher: Edward Eberstadt Date: 1926 Description: 125, [1] pp. Frontispiece portrait from engraving. (8vo), original tan cloth-backed boards, spine and front cover lettered in gilt. One of 385 copies, printed at the Kelmscott Press, NY. First Edition in Book Form. First published in The Family Visitor of Cleveland and Hudson Ohio in 1850 and 1851, noted in Wagner-Camp as "one of the most readable of all the overland accounts of the gold-rush days." Sawyer went on to become Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of California. Cowan p. 570; Graff 3687; Howes S133; Kurutz 556; Mintz 403; Wagner-Camp 191 (note). Lot Amendments Condition: Light wear, endpapers foxed; very good. Item number: 260301
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