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Item Details
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| Author: |
Bourne, Benjamin Franklin |
| Title: |
The Captivity in Patagonia; or, Life Among the Giants |
| Place: |
Boston |
| Publisher: |
Gould and Lincoln |
| Date: |
1853 |
| Item # : |
194574 |
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387 |
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52 |
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| Americana - Travel & Exploration - Cartography |
| Sale Date |
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09/11/2008 |
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1pm PST |
| Low Estimate |
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$ 200 |
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$ 300 |
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| Description: |
| xxiv, [25]-233 + [12] ad pp. Illustrated with 4 wood-engraved plates, including frontispiece with tissue-guard. 7½x4¾, original blind-stamped red cloth, spine lettered in gilt. First Edition. |
| "Touched with gold fever, first mate of the schooner 'John Allyne,' B.F. Bourne and twenty-five others set out from New Bedford, Massachusetts, on February 13, 1849. Bourne was captured by natives off of Cape Horn. He escaped after three months, boarded the ship 'Julius Pringle,' and arrived at San Francisco in February 1850. After three days...he headed for Sacramento and the mines. With badly blistered feet, he made a difficult journey trudging through the snow near Georgetown before joining his brothers in mining. This enterprise proved unsuccessful, and Bourne became seriously ill...Recovered, he headed back home via the Isthmus..." - Hill. Later editions didn't include the chapters on California. Cowan II, p. 65; Hill, pp. 360-61; Kurutz 69a; Sabin 6910. |
| Condition: |
| Spine darkened, spine tips chipped; two former owners' ink signatures on front free endpaper, otherwise very good. |
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