[Rarebooks] FS: Hamburg: 1849. A hoax account of the California Goldrush

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(CALIFORNIA) [Vizetelly, Henry]. VIER MONATE UNTER DEN GOLDFINDERN IN 
OBERCALIFORNIEN. Tagebuch des Englischen Urztes J. Tyrwhitt-Brooks [pseud.]. 
Hamburg: B. S. Berendsohn. 1849. 32pp. 20th c. 1/2 polished red calf, black calf 
spine label, over cloth.     $300.00 (trade discount allowed)
A fictitious account of the California Goldrush that fooled most 
authorities until the author's (1820-1894) admission in 1893. It was first published 
in London in 1849, and was quickly translated into French, German and 
Swedish. Howes V135; Wheat #217.

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