Overland Route to California; Overland Route to California. Description of the Route, Via Council Bluffs, Iowa; Keeping the North Side of the Platte River, for the Whole of the Distance, Lying Near the Stream Thence Over the South Pass; Via the Sublette and Bear River Cut-Offs and.Introduction by Lyle H. Wright
Los Angeles: N. A. Kovach, 1946. First Thus. Hardcover. 8vo. Pp. viii, (1), 10-60. Introduction by Lyle H. Wright. Illustrated with a photo of the Huntington Library's 1852 first edition. Fold-out map bound-in at rear. With a bibliographical note on the Huntington copy. Bound in bright orange cloth with a gilt illustration of a miner stamped on front cover, gilt lettering on spine. Dust jacket with two short tears at head of spine. Fine / Very Good+. Item #1791
A handsome, presentable copy of Volume IV in the publisher's California Centennial Series. According to Kurutz, only 750 copies were printed. Printed by the Premier Press, Los Angeles. See GRAFF, 694n. HOWES, C-378. KURUTZ, 127b. WAGNER-CAMP, 209n. Dust jacket is now protected in a clear, removable archival cover. Bookseller inventory A05043X123L.
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