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Author: Taylor, Bayard
Title: Eldorado, Or, Adventures in the Path of Empire: Comprising a Voyage to California, Via Panama; Life in San Francisco and Monterey; Pictures of the Gold Region, and Experiences of Mexican Travel
Place Published: New York
Publisher:George P. Putnam
Date Published: 1850
Description:

2 volumes. xii, 251; [2], 247 + 12 ad pp. Illustrated with 8 tinted lithograph plates, with tissue guards. (8vo) 19.2x12 cm (7½x4¾"), original blindstamped grained green cloth, spines lettered in gilt. Second American Edition.

The Zamorano Eighty notes that "This work by an eminent writer and artist is probably the outstanding book on the early gold rush in California. The author's description of the Constitutional Convention at Monterey is the best we have, as are also the views he gives us of the earliest mining camps. The colored plates are beautifully tinted works of art depicting San Francisco, Monterey, Sacramento, and the mining camps. Bayard Taylor saw everything and recorded everything he saw." Howes T43; Kurutz 618c; Sabin 94440; Streeter 2654; Wheat Gold Rush 204; Zamorano Eighty 73. Bookseller stickers on pastedowns.

Light rubbing and soiling to cloth, slight rubbing to lettering and fraying to ends of spine; vol 1 front hinge tender, intermittent small dampstains and smudging, faint foxing and toning throughout; very good.