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Author: Bryant, Edwin
Title: What I saw in California: Being a Journal of a Tour by the Emigrant Route and South Pass of the Rocky Mountains, Across the Continent of North America, the Great Desert Basin, and Through California, in the Years 1846, 1847
Place Published: New York; Philadelphia
Publisher:D. Appleton and Company
Date Published: 1849
Description: 480 pp. With wood-engraved map. 18.5x11.8 cm (7½x4¾"), blind-stamped cloth, spine lettered in gilt. Seventh 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. This revised edition includes a 25 appendix intended for aspiring miners. 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 80 #12.

Minor wear to cloth at extremities; dampstain to front blank leaf, offsetting and occasional foxing; very good.