[Rarebooks] fs: Four Years on the Pacific Coast, 1850s

[Back Creek Books]

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(No. 8984 )  Bates, Mrs. D. B. INCIDENTS ON LAND AND WATER, OR FOUR YEARS ON 
THE PACIFIC COAST. BEING A NARRATIVE OF THE BURNING OF THE SHIPS NONANTUM, 
HUMAYOON AND FANCHON, TOGETHER WITH MANY STARTLING AND INTERESTING 
ADVENTURES ON SEA AND LAND.
Boston: James French and Company, 1857. First printing, Original cloth, 
Octavo, 336 pages, 3 black & white plates. Good.
      The author was the wife of the captain of the Nonantum of Boston, 
which sailed for San Francisco from Baltimore in 1850 with provisions for 
the gold fields. The cargo of coal was loaded damp and spontaneously 
combusted during the voyage. The smoldering ship was able to reach the 
Falklands where it had to be sold for scrap. So begin the adventures of Mrs. 
Bates. SABIN #3923. Bound in drab green cloth over boards with gilt 
lettering and ornament on spine, border rules and ornaments stamped in gilt 
and blind on upper board, blind only on lower board. Prior owner name 
lightly pencilled on preliminary blank. Some shallow fraying to spine ends, 
corner tips rubbed, scattered foxing inside. Hinges not cracked but some 
signatures beginning to pull.    $75.00
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