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Hardcover. Condizione: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. 8vo, 278 pgs. Frontis and with 2 additional text plates. Condition of the book is GOOD ONLY: heavy wear and soiling to covers and spine- heavier at edges and corners, spine ends worn, corners worn, former owner's name and city on front endpaper in pencil. Front hinge cracked with front cover loose.…

12mo Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. 1st Edition. 278p. Binding is rebound and firm with secure hinges. Brown cloth boards are faintly shelf worn with machine rounded corners and gilt lettering on spine. Text is unmarked with a light patina.

Hardcover. Orange cloth with gilt/black lettering and decoration. 278 pp. with bw frontis and 1 additional bw plate. The author's 9-month travels in California. San Francisco, Yosemite, The Sierras, geysers, the big trees, Mendocino, and more. Good, clean contents; general shelf wear with bumps to corners and head/tail of spine; age toning to spine, but gilt still fresh; small tear to edge of frontis; tear to back free end paper.…

Philadelphia, Pennslyvania. Methodist Episcopal Book and Publishing House. 1875. First Edition. Octavo (6 1/2 x 5). [2], 3-278 pp. Illustrated frontispiece. Text illustrations. The Rev. traveled by ship from New York to California via the isthmus at Panama and landed in San Francisco. He meandered through the state, hunts and fishes with gusto, a bit skeptical of the Western outdoor experience, but nonetheless thoroughly enjoyed the Sierra mountains. There's very little God-talk and that's a plus for the reader. The book is bound in its original brown decorated cloth with gilt titles on the spine and front cover. With the bookplate Wilbur G. Downs, a world-famous naturalist an medical researcher. There's some edge wear to the binding and a bit of foxing in the text, otherwise very good.…