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London D. Bogue . Good. 1848. 1st ed.. FIRST EDITION 16mo. (approx. 15 x 11.5cm) bound in full calf, gil t decorations and titles, marbled endpapers. t.e.g. 62pp. plus ad vertisement leaf at rear. Many delightful line drawings by Gilber t and Henning illustrating the text. Ex-libris of [?] Battie-Wrig htson, possibly a reference to a member [or family] of William Ba ttie-Wrightson, MP. . extremities; back hinge partially cracked with small tear to end paper. Text block is clean and bright with no foxing. . .

The Book Club of California. New. 2987. 1st edition. 1st ed., oblong 4to, 10 x 13 inches. 199 pp. Limited to 450 copie s. With color illustrations by Charles Shaw, appendix, footnotes, bibliography, index and endpaper maps. Original prospectus laid in. . uarter natural linen, illustrated paper over boards, printed pape r spine label, maps in end-leaves, plain white paper dust-jacket. Isaac Duval (1824-1902) was an American adventurer and businessm an prior to becoming a brigadier general in the Union Army during the American Civil War. As a young man, he traveled to Fort Smit h, Arkansas, where he joined an elder brother who was running a t rading post. Afterward, he became a western and mountain scout, v enturing to the California Gold Rush in 1849. This book records D uval's reminiscences of the Gila Trail journey from Texas to the Mother Lode Mines. Kurutz: The California Gold Rush, No 212. A n ew copy, but with some toning, light creases, and edge-nicks to t he jacket; light creasing to… Read More