BRUFF, Joseph Goldsborough (1804–1889). Gold Rush: The Journals, Drawings and Other Papers of…Captain, Washington City and California Mining Association April 2, 1849–July 20, 1851. Edited by Georgia Willis Read and Ruth Gaines. With a foreword by F.W. Hodge. New York: Columbia University Press, 1944.

2 volumes, royal 8vo. Numerous illustrations from sketches and drawings by Bruff. Original black cloth–backed boards, spines lettered in gilt; original card slipcase with printed cover label (edges worn, rear panel partially separated).

FIRST EDITION of the “most elaborate of overland narratives” (Howes) that contains “detailed journals and drawings of a trained draughtsman and engineer, who resigned his army commission and travels from Washington, D.C., to the diggings” (Wheat). Howes R91; Mattes 377; Wheat Gold Rush 25; Zamorano Select 9.