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First Edition of Bryant's California Classic

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Title: What I saw in California: Being a Journal of a Tour
Author: Bryant, Edwin
Description: 455 pp. 7¼x4½, original blindstamped cloth, rebacked. First Edition.Important, early account of the migration to California in the years prior to the Gold Rush, highly influential, serving as a virtual guide to the 49ers. Wagner-Camp - "...Bryant's narrative is of further interest because of its description of the life and times of American Californians before the discovery of gold." Cowan p.81; Graff 457; Howes B903; Kurutz 95a; Mintz 65; Streeter 3147; Wagner-Camp 146:1; Zamorano Eighty 12.
Heading: Place Published: New York
Publisher: D. Appleton and Co.
Date Published: 1848