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Hunting for Gold: Reminiscences of Personal Experience and Research in the Early Days of the Pacific Coast from Alaska to Panama
de Downie, Major William ("founder of Downieville, Cal.")
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San Francisco, CA: California Publishing Co, 1893. First edition. 8vo. Frontispiece portrait of the author, illustrated from photographs and wood engravings, plates, portraits. Howes D-448 ("aa"): "Unassuming but valuable reminiscences of an inveterate miner and pioneer." Graff 1143. Soliday II, 357: "The author was the first white man to cross from the coast to the Frazer River. His narrative is of the kind to furnish the novelist with first hand material. It deserves a place among the best of pacific Coast pioneer works." Streeter sale 3016: "Major Downie's recollections of the first two eventful years of prospecting and mining on the Yuba belong to the contemporary accounts of this period." Wheat Gold Rush 6. Smith 1023. Very good. Original black pebbled cloth boards with leather corners, rebacked in matching black cloth, floral endpapers, gilt title on upper cover. (#5769).
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- Bartlebys Books
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- 58528
- Título
- Hunting for Gold: Reminiscences of Personal Experience and Research in the Early Days of the Pacific Coast from Alaska to Panama
- Autor
- Downie, Major William ("founder of Downieville, Cal.")
- Estado del libro
- Usado
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- 1
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- California Publishing Co
- Lugar de publicación
- San Francisco, CA
- Fecha de publicación
- 1893
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- First Edition
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- Cloth
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- Pebbled
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- Gilt
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- Rebacked
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