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Title: What I Saw in California: Being the Journal of a Tour, by the Emigrant Route and South Pass of the Rocky Mountains, Across the Continent of North America, the Great Desert Basin, and Through California, in the Years 1846, 1847 Author: Bryant, Edwin Place: New York Publisher: D. Appleton & Company Date: 1849 Description: 480 pp. Wood-engraved frontispiece map. 7¼x4¾, original blindstamped cloth, spine lettered in gilt. Sixth Edition. This sixth edition was the second of the numerous editions of Bryant's important first-hand account of travels to the far west to contain the `small woodcut map' of the gold region, although there were more general maps in two earlier editions. Graff notes that "Although this is a faithful account of an overland journey, its usefulness was marred because there was no map. The lack was supplied starting with the fifth Edition." Wagner-Camp notes a map of California in the second English edition, and a map of the west in the third American edition, but the fifth edition is the first to contain the "untitled map of California Gold Region." This sixth edition should also have a Colton map of California, Oregon, Texas, etc., which was not issued in the fifth edition, but in the present copy it has been removed. Cowan p.81; Graff 458; Howes B903; Kurutz 95i; Wagner-Camp 146:9; Wheat Maps of the Gold Region 67. Lot Amendments Condition: Spine ends and joints chipped, edges and corners rubbed, soiling to cloth, binding cocked; foxing throughout; else good. Item number: 184640