[Rarebooks] Offering: Capron's CALIFORNIA, 1854, Price Reduced

[Michael John Thompson]

Price reduced to $350.00 net ppd.

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CAPRON, E.S. [Elisha Smith].

HISTORY OF CALIFORNIA From Its Discovery To The Present Time; 
Comprising Also A Full Description Of Its Climate, Surface, Soil, 
Rivers, Towns, Beasts, Birds, Fishes, State Of Its Society, 
Agriculture, Commerce, Mines, Mining, &c. With A Journal Of The 
Voyage From New York Via Nicaragua, To San Francisco And Back, Via 
Panama. WITH A NEW MAP OF THE COUNTRY.

Boston: Published by Sohn P. Jewett & Company / Cleveland, Ohio: 
Jewett, Proctor and Worthington. 1854.

First edition. Small octavo, original brown cloth stamped in blind on 
front cover, titled and decorated in gilt on spine panel. xi + 356 
pp. Large folding hand-coloured map frontispiece. Old ink note on 
endpaper ' bought in 1905, Temple Texas'; Small previous owner's 
label. Spine panel and cover edges tanned, mild soiling, light 
(light!) wear to spine tips, a very good copy, sound and attractive. 
The map is dated 1854 = second state (1st state dated 1853) and has no tears.

Capron, a contemporary observer who arrived in California in 1853, 
devotes more than half of his book to a description of San Francisco 
and the gold mines. He also includes vivid descriptions of the lurid 
side of San Francisco, gambling and gaming, the Chinese inhabitants, 
etc. The map (by Colton) was originally published in 1853, and 
includes an inset street guide to San Francisco.

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On line copies (there are nine, discounting modern reprints). All 
have the 1854 map (if they have the map at all).
$750 no map
$825 map torn & tape repaired
$895 no map
$1075 four-inch tear to map repaired with tape
$1250 nice copy
$1310 map with one-inch tear
$1350 nice copy
$1437 decent copy chipped at spine base
$1800 nice copy




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