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Author: Clarke, Asa B
Title: Travels in Mexico and California: Comprising a Journal of a Tour from Brazos Santiago, Through Central Mexico, by Way of Monterey, Chihuahua, the Country of the Apaches, and the River Gila, to the Mining Districts of California
Place Published: Boston
Publisher:Wright & Hasty's Steam Press
Date Published: 1852
Description: 138 pp. 19x11 cm (7½x4½"), later three quarter morocco over cloth boards ruled in gilt, spine lettered in gilt; renewed endpapers. First EditionClarke was employed by the Hampden Mining Company, sailed from New York in January, 1849, and traveled through central Mexico and Arizona before reaching the California gold region in August of that year. His narrative provides the first printed description of the route from Camargo, Mexico through Chihuahua and Sonora to the Gila River of Arizona. The book is also said to contain on page 12, the earliest reference in print to petroleum in Los Angeles. Cowan p. 128; Graff 746; Howes C451; Kurutz 138a; Sabin 13393; Streeter 3169; Wagner-Camp, Becker 210. Bookplate present.

Touches of wear to morocco; staining and wear to title page, repair to top corner; occasional staining and foxing; very good.