Title: California illustrated: including a description of the Panama and Nicaragua Routes.Publisher: British Library, Historical Print EditionsThe British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom. It is one of the world's largest research libraries holding over 150 million items in all known languages and formats: books, journals, newspapers, sound recordings, patents, maps, stamps, prints and much more. Its collections include around 14 million books, along with substantial additional collections of ...
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Title: California illustrated: including a description of the Panama and Nicaragua Routes.Publisher: British Library, Historical Print EditionsThe British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom. It is one of the world's largest research libraries holding over 150 million items in all known languages and formats: books, journals, newspapers, sound recordings, patents, maps, stamps, prints and much more. Its collections include around 14 million books, along with substantial additional collections of manuscripts and historical items dating back as far as 300 BC.The HISTORY OF CENTRAL & SOUTH AMERICA collection includes books from the British Library digitised by Microsoft. Titles in this collection provide cultural, statistical, commercial, chronological and geo-economic histories of Central and South America. This series also includes texts, reports, letters, and illustrated and interpretive histories of indigenous peoples, and the natural and built environments that have fascinated historians for centuries. Along with written records, the collection features transcribed oral histories and traditions spanning the range of cultures and civilisations in the southern hemisphere. ++++The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++ British Library Letts, J M.; 1853. 224 p.; 8 . 10481.ee.31.
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Add this copy of California Illustrated: Including a Description of the to cart. $19.64, new condition, Sold by Ingram Customer Returns Center rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from NV, USA, published 2011 by British Library, Historical Print Editions.
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Add this copy of California Illustrated Including a Description of the to cart. $35.32, new condition, Sold by Paperbackshop rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Bensenville, IL, UNITED STATES, published 2012 by Gale Ecco, Sabin Americana.
Add this copy of California Illustrated: Including a Description of the to cart. $38.02, new condition, Sold by Ria Christie Books rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Uxbridge, MIDDLESEX, UNITED KINGDOM, published 2011 by British Library, Historical Print Editions.
Add this copy of California Illustrated: Including a Description of the to cart. $40.00, good condition, Sold by Books From California rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Simi Valley, CA, UNITED STATES, published 1853 by R. T. Young.
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Good. 12 illustrated plates. Brown cloth cover with decoration in blind and gilt, cover shows heavy wear and rubbing, edgewear and loss on the spine, cracked joints. Bookplate of former owner on the ffep. Pages show minor scattered foxing. Very Clean Copy-Over 500, 000 Internet Orders Filled.
Add this copy of California Illustrated: Including a Description of the to cart. $41.01, new condition, Sold by Booksplease rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Southport, MERSEYSIDE, UNITED KINGDOM, published 2011 by British Library, Historical Print Editions.
Add this copy of California Illustrated: Including a Description of the to cart. $100.00, fair condition, Sold by G. F. Wilkinson Books, IOBA rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Grass Valley, CA, UNITED STATES, published 1853 by R. T. Young.
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Fair. 224pp.; lacking frontis; 8vo; blind-stamped brown blue cloth, lettered and illustrated in gilt. Six plates with tissue guards of the forty-seven called for in text [Kurutz 398d]. Spine & extremites faded with wear spine ends, some loss at spine top; corners bumped; bookplate of Louis S. Tiemann front pastedown; faint ownership signature front endpaper in pencil; moderate soil to pastedowns and endpapers of yellow coated stock; pronounced foxing / tanning to title page, and following Note to the Reader page, otherwise most text pages clean with scattered light to moderate foxing; plates with light to moderate foxing, most at extremities of image, with a bit more foxing to the backs of the plates; leading lower corner tip torn out page 95. Binding solid. "Drawing on his personal experience, Letts produced one of the best accounts of gambling, violence, and life in the mines" [Kurutz]. New York artist George V. Cooper travelled with Letts and drew the illustrations. First edition was 1852, Cowan II, page 390 states that in the 1853 edition the actual number of plates varies.
Add this copy of California Illustrated: Including a Description of the to cart. $175.00, fair condition, Sold by The Book Bin rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Salem, OR, UNITED STATES, published 1853 by R.T. Young.
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Fair. Gift inscription circa 1858 on front end paper. Small erased pencil scribblings on inside front cover and upper right corner of front end paper. Spine tilited, moderately shaken. Boards are moderately bumped on all corners, causing them to be rounded, and there is also bumping at the top and bottom of the spine. Boards are moderately rubbed, and some of the embossing and gilt have been damaged as a result. Interior text block is fairly solid and secure, but is not straight and is intermittently but heavily foxed and toned throughout. No text seems affected, though thte foxing has affected several of the prints. Rear end papaer heavily creased, has separated from the spine but is still attached to the rear board. Top edge of teh text block is darkened from sealed-in dust. Size: 8vo-over 7 3/4 in-9 3/4 in Tall. Year: 1853.
