Les petits voyageurs en Californie

by Hippolyte de Chavannes de la Giraudière

$600 · Offered by Rulon-Miller Books · No longer available

First edition

Tours: A. Mame & Cie, 1853. First edition, 12mo, pp. 4 , 188; 8 chromolithograph plates view of San Francisco Bay, redwoods, panning for gold, the shooting of a bear, etc. ; original glazed pictorial chromolithographed boards by Engelmann & Graf, Paris; some soiling, hinges starting, but the binding is reasonably sound; all else very good. The adventures of a French furniture maker, M. Canton, in Gold Rush California. Emulating actual first-person

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