Previous owner's ex-libris to front paste-down endpaper. Light foxing to top edge. Dustjacket very good. Sunning to spine. Lightly soiled rear cover. Now Mylar protected. Gilt lettering debossed to spine of sage-green, cloth-covered boards. Portrait of Albert Osbun on frontispiece. Maps. Charts. Clean, tight, bright. 233 pp with appendices and index. "Dr. Albert G. Osbun's two-year odyssey from 1849 to 1851 first takes him to mine for gold on the Yuba and upper Sacramento rivers. A glimpse of his return home via Mexico concludes this outstanding diary of the gold-rush period," (front flap).

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Title

TO CALIFORNIA AND THE SOUTH SEAS : THE DIARY OF ALBERT G. OSBUN 1849 -- 1851

Publisher

Huntington Library, San Marino, California

Publication Date

1966

Binding

Hardcover

Condition

Very Good Plus

Dust Jacket Condition

Very Good

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Autobiography, Biography, Memoir

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