The Duchow Journal. A Voyage from Boston to California 1852

by Charles Duchow

$200 · Offered by John Windle Antiquarian

Kentfield, CA: Allen Press, 1959. Small 4to, 66 pp. With designs by Mallette Dean. Original cloth-backed decorated paper boards, dust-jacket, very good. Prospectus inserted. § One of 200 copies with hand-colored marginal decorations by Mallette Dean and a frontispiece reproduction of a daguerreotype of John Charles Duchow and his family. With a Foreword by George P. Hammond: One of the liveliest and most interesting diaries that has come to our attention.

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