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Item Details
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| Author: |
Bidwell, John |
| Title: |
Echoes of the Past... |
| Place: |
Chico |
| Publisher: |
The Chico Advertiser |
| Date: |
[1914] |
| Item # : |
194533 |
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| Sale Number |
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387 |
| Lot Number |
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50 |
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| Americana - Travel & Exploration - Cartography |
| Sale Date |
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09/11/2008 |
| Price realized |
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$ 156 |
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| Description: |
| [4], 91 pp. 3 full-page illustrations from photographs. 7x5, original printed wrappers, stapled, preserved in marbled slipcase with morocco spine labels, gilt. First Edition in Book Form. |
| Reprinting of articles by Bidwell which appeared in the Century Magazine for November and December, 1890 and February 1891. Kurutz notes that "the vast majority of the text is devoted to the famed overland trek and early days in California before the American conquest. The pioneer provided interesting information on pre-Marshall gold discoveries." Bidwell served as a congressman during Reconstruction; a handwritten list of 40+ members of the House of Representatives, signed by Bidwell et al., is laid in. Cowan p.52; Graff 292; Howes B432; Kurutz 55a; Mintz 36; Rocq 1371; Wagner-Camp 88 (note); Wheat Books 18. |
| Condition: |
| Light wear to wraps; endpaper with 3" tear, text darkened as usual, else good. |
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