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Item Details
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| Author: |
Bruff, J. Goldsborough |
| Title: |
Gold Rush the Journals, Drawings and other Papers |
| Place: |
New York |
| Publisher: |
Columbia University Press |
| Date: |
1944 |
| Item # : |
194527 |
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| Sale Number |
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387 |
| Lot Number |
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58 |
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| Americana - Travel & Exploration - Cartography |
| Sale Date |
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09/11/2008 |
| Price realized |
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$ 390 |
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| Description: |
| 2 volumes. Edited by Georgia Willis Read and Ruth Gaines. Foreword by F.W. Hodge. Illustrated with plates from sketches and drawings by Bruff. 10x7¼, quarter cloth and boards, spines lettered in gilt. First Edition. |
| "Detailed journals and drawings of a trained draughtsman and engineer, who resigned his army commission and traveled from Washington, D.C., to the diggings..." - Wheat, who applauds the "scholarly editing" by Read and Gaines. Howes calls it the "most elaborate of overland narratives." Bruff organized and commanded a party of sixty-six men called the Washington City and California Mining Association, leaving the nation's capital on April 2, 1849, and arriving at the Feather River on November 1 of that year. The overland journey is covered in the first volume, his experiences in the mines in the second. Howes R91; Kurutz 93a; Mattes 377; Mintz 64; Rocq 15724; Wheat Gold Rush 25. |
| Condition: |
| Lacking the slipcase; light cover wear; former owner's name inked on endpapers, else near fine. |
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