[Rarebooks] FS: San Francisco: a horrid sink of iniquity

[Kaaterskill Books]

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Brodie, Walter. PITCAIRN'S ISLAND AND THE ISLANDERS IN 
1850...TOGETHER WITH EXTRACTS  FROM HIS PRIVATE JOURNAL, AND A FEW 
HINTS UPON CALIFORNIA; ALSO, THE REPORTS OF ALL  THE COMMANDERS OF 
H.M. SHIPS THAT HAVE TOUCHED AT THE ABOVE ISLAND SINCE 1800.  London: 
Whittaker & Co., 1851. iv, [5]-260 pp. Illus. with three lithograph 
plates (2 portraits) and one drawing.  Original blind stamped 
publisher's cloth with paper spine label (hardback). Hill 185. Also 
see for other editions the  same year: Sabin 8181. Howes B797. 
Ferguson 7444. Kurutz 77.  Third edition.

"Brodie, on his way to the California gold fields from New Zealand, 
was stranded  at Pitcairn when his vessel was blown off shore. During 
his long visit, he wrote this account of the  later events of the 
Bounty mutineers. He gives a very detailed list of all the Bounty 
descendants  and a valuable shipping record of vessels calling at the 
island. In this book are published a great  many visitors' letters. 
The second and third editions appeared in the same year as the 
first," (Hill). When he does reach San Francisco he finds it a 
"horrid sink of iniquity" with 600  abandoned ships in the harbor, 
their crews having "gone to the diggings to make a fortune, or  leave 
their bones there." "Constitutes one of the main sources for the 
Nordhoff and Hall trilogy  on "Mutineers of the Bounty." (Eberstadt). 
Spine ends worn with some minor loss, small chip to  spine at hinge, 
boards rubbed, small tear to frontis, one leaf opened roughly, some 
minor foxing,  a good or better copy.  [28533]  $350.00 


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