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THE CALIFORNIA GOLD DISCOVERY: Sources, Documents, Accounts and Memoirs Relating to the Discovery of Gold at Sutter's Mill
de Paul, Rodman W. (Editor)
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- Aceptable
- Tapa dura
- Firmado
- First
- Estado
- Fine
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Covina, California, United States
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Georgetown, California: The Talisman Press, 1966. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. This is number 96 of 100 copies in a special edition printed on Ticonderoga text, specially bound, boxed, and signed by the author. "The most comprehensive book ever published on the California gold discovery, containing a detailed mass of accounts and sources relating to that momentous event ... All known accounts by the participants in the gold discovery are here, including variant accounts by Marshall, Bigler, Brown, and Wimmer, plus the related testimony of Capt. Sutter." Tinted title page illustration, with 12 halftone reproductions, including a map of the gold discovery, and a folding panoramic photograph at the rear. Quarto. Original marbled paper-covered boards over a black leather spine, with gilt titles. A fine copy, housed in the publisher's two slipcases. Kurutz 485.
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- Librería
- Johnson Rare Books & Archives
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- Inventario del vendedor #
- 69089
- Título
- THE CALIFORNIA GOLD DISCOVERY: Sources, Documents, Accounts and Memoirs Relating to the Discovery of Gold at Sutter's Mill
- Autor
- Paul, Rodman W. (Editor)
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Fine
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
- Edición
- First Edition
- Editorial
- The Talisman Press
- Lugar de publicación
- Georgetown, California
- Fecha de publicación
- 1966
- Palabras clave
- California, Western Americana, Gold Rush, Sutter's Fort, John Sutter, Sacramento, John Marshall
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Covina, California
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- Fine
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- First Edition
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- Title Page
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- Quarto
- The term quarto is used to describe a page or book size. A printed sheet is made with four pages of text on each side, and the...
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
