Bound for Sacramento: Travel-Pictures of a Returned Wanderer
MEYER, Carl
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MEYER, Carl. Bound for Sacramento: Travel-Pictures of a Returned Wanderer. Translated from the German by Ruth Frey Axe. Introduction by Henry R. Wagner. Claremont, CA: Saunders Studio Press, 1938. 1st ed. in English. xii,282pp. Facsimiles. Orig. decorated cloth, non-priceclipped d/j. Tiny chips to end of d/j spine panel, else near fine. HOWES M-572. One of 450 numbered copies. Inscribed by Henry R. Wagner to the Zamorano Club on the front free endpaper, with the Club's bookplate on the front free endpaper. The acknowledgments thanks "Mr. Henry R. Wagner for calling our attention to its merits." Meyer came to California from Germany in 1849, via New Orleans and the Isthmus of Panama. Kurutz 439b notes, "[H]e must be credited with providing some of the strongest `word pictures' of the Gold Rush. His summaries of the last vestiges of Mexican California were all choice. His descriptions encompass a Mexican caravan on its way to the Mariposa diggings, geology of the region, gold mining camps, San Francisco, Indians., river steamers, and bull and bear fights in Sacramento. The German-language first edition was published in Aarau in 1855.". Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 73355
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Titel: Bound for Sacramento: Travel-Pictures of a ...
Erscheinungsdatum: 1938
Einband: Hardcover
Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Dust Jacket Included
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