Title: California illustrated: including a description of the Panama and Nicaragua Routes.Publisher: British Library, Historical Print EditionsThe British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom. It is one of the world's largest research libraries holding over 150 million items in all known languages and formats: books, journals, newspapers, sound recordings, patents, maps, stamps, prints and much more. Its collections include around 14 million books, along with substantial additional collections of ...
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Title: California illustrated: including a description of the Panama and Nicaragua Routes.Publisher: British Library, Historical Print EditionsThe British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom. It is one of the world's largest research libraries holding over 150 million items in all known languages and formats: books, journals, newspapers, sound recordings, patents, maps, stamps, prints and much more. Its collections include around 14 million books, along with substantial additional collections of manuscripts and historical items dating back as far as 300 BC.The HISTORY OF CENTRAL & SOUTH AMERICA collection includes books from the British Library digitised by Microsoft. Titles in this collection provide cultural, statistical, commercial, chronological and geo-economic histories of Central and South America. This series also includes texts, reports, letters, and illustrated and interpretive histories of indigenous peoples, and the natural and built environments that have fascinated historians for centuries. Along with written records, the collection features transcribed oral histories and traditions spanning the range of cultures and civilisations in the southern hemisphere. ++++The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++ British Library Letts, J M.; 1853. 224 p.; 8 . 10481.ee.31.
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3/25/2011 12: 00: 00 AM
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PLEASE NOTE, WE DO NOT SHIP TO DENMARK. New Book. Shipped from UK in 4 to 14 days. Established seller since 2000. Please note we cannot offer an expedited shipping service from the UK.
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Fair. 224pp.; lacking frontis; 8vo; blind-stamped brown blue cloth, lettered and illustrated in gilt. Six plates with tissue guards of the forty-seven called for in text [Kurutz 398d]. Spine & extremites faded with wear spine ends, some loss at spine top; corners bumped; bookplate of Louis S. Tiemann front pastedown; faint ownership signature front endpaper in pencil; moderate soil to pastedowns and endpapers of yellow coated stock; pronounced foxing / tanning to title page, and following Note to the Reader page, otherwise most text pages clean with scattered light to moderate foxing; plates with light to moderate foxing, most at extremities of image, with a bit more foxing to the backs of the plates; leading lower corner tip torn out page 95. Binding solid. "Drawing on his personal experience, Letts produced one of the best accounts of gambling, violence, and life in the mines" [Kurutz]. New York artist George V. Cooper travelled with Letts and drew the illustrations. First edition was 1852, Cowan II, page 390 states that in the 1853 edition the actual number of plates varies.
