A Ride Over the Rocky Mountains to Oregon and California

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Sale 420: Americana - Cartography - Gene Gammel Collection of Cowboy Toys & Memorabilia, Part I (#420) 01/21/2010 11:00 AM PST Closed
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Lot #72A Ride Over the Rocky Mountains to Oregon and California

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Sale 420: Americana - Cartography - Gene Gammel Collection of Cowboy Toys & Memorabilia, Part I (#420) 01/21/2010 11:00 AM PST Closed
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Title:

A Ride Over the Rocky Mountains to Oregon and California

Author:

Coke, Henry J.

Place Published:

London

Publisher:

Richard Bentley

Date Published:

1852

Description:

x, 388, [2] pp. Lithograph frontispiece portrait. 8½x5½, modern blue half morocco, spine gilt. First Edition.

Kurutz calls attention to Coke’s detailed description of life in San Francisco. “One of the most stimulating of all overland narratives, and one of the West’s best adventure stories. " -Kurutz 144. Howes C-548. Wheat, Books of the Gold Rush, 44. Wagner-Camp-Becker 211.

Condition:

Some wear at extremities; frontispiece, title page and pages 1-2 bound in facsimile, the originals of these leaves removed, trimmed of library markings and housed in a folder bound in at rear; good

Item#:

207000

Headline:

Coke's rocky mnts OR and CA 1852
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