CALIFORNIENS GEGENWART UND ZUKUNST... NEBST BEITRAGEN VON A. ERMAN UEBER DIE KLIMATOLOGIE VON CALIOFRNIEN UND UEBER DIE GEOGRAPHISCHE VERBREITUNG DES GOLDES. by Hoppe, Janus - 1849

Berlin: Reimer, 1849. viii,151,[1]pp. plus two folding maps. Original printed wrappers.( a rather nice copy, untrimmed) Like many such publications, the author drew heavily upon previous works, including Duflot de Mofras, Fremont, Robinson, and Forbes. This introduction to California consists mainly of a geographical and historical discussion together with a climatography by Professor Erman. Erman also wrote on the discovery and importance of gold, based on information gathered during an 1829 visit to San Francisco while circumnavigating the globe. Hoppe believed that the primary interest in California was for the European colonization of the West Coast of North America" - Kurutz. "One of the more important of the many early German publications on the gold discoveries, with data from various reports and studies by George A. Erman" - Wheat. "The maps are of substantial importance" - Hill. One map shows California and the other shows the gold regions of the world. STREETER SALE 2573. WHEAT GOLD REGIONS 96. WHEAT GOLD RUSH 104. HOWES H639, "aa." KURUTZ 341. DECKER 29:44. EBERSTADT 125:137. HOLLIDAY 528. COWAN, p.291. HILL 826. SABIN 32991.