California Gold Rush Merchant; The Journal of Stephen Chapin Davis. Edited by Benjamin B. Richards by Davis, Stephen Chapin. Benjamin B. Richards, editor - 1956

The Huntington Library, 1956-01-01. Hardcover. Very Good. 1.2500 8.2500 6.0000. Cover shows minor tanning, pages are clean.

Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1974. Reprint. 1st Printing. Cloth. Fine/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Reprint, c.r. 1956. Hard cover 8vo in tan cloth w/ black spine titles and logo. Fine/No DJ (as issued?). xvii, 124pp inc. Notes, Index.

San Marino Ca: The Huntington Library, 1956. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Xvii, 124 Pp. Red-Brown Cloth Spine With Paper Label, Patterned Boards. First Printing With 1956 Date On Title Page. Fine In Fine Clear Glassine Dust Jacket, As Issued. Finely Made Bookplate With A Reproduction Of A 1497 Medical Engraving.

San Marino: Huntington Library, 1956 First edition. Edited by Benjamin B. Richards. Pp. xvii, [1], 124. Map, notes, index. Cloth-backed decorated boards, paper spine label. A very fine copy. Signed by noted author, E. Geoffrey Bangs. Presents the gold rush through the eyes of a seventeen-year-old merchant. "Davis and his brother, Josiah, of Nashua, New Hampshire, sailed from New York City via Panama for San Francisco and the gold fields. The journal begins on June 1, 1850, and concludes on May 26, 1854, with some gaps. The brothers operated a successful mercantile operation in Long Bar on the Yuba River before trying their luck in Oregon. Unsuccessful, they returned home. Stephen's description of their return trip across the Isthmus of Panama and of a riot between natives and Americans is dramatic. Tired of the New England climate, Stephen left for California on January 21, 1852, and kept a store at Coulterville, on Maxwell's Creek for the next two years. News of his brother's death… Read More

San Marino: Huntington Library, 1956 First edition. Signed by the Editor, Benjamin B. Richards. Pp. xvii, [1], 124. Map, notes, index. Cloth-backed decorated boards, paper spine label. A very fine copy. Presents the gold rush through the eyes of a seventeen-year-old merchant. "Davis and his brother, Josiah, of Nashua, New Hampshire, sailed from New York City via Panama for San Francisco and the gold fields. The journal begins on June 1, 1850, and concludes on May 26, 1854, with some gaps. The brothers operated a successful mercantile operation in Long Bar on the Yuba River before trying their luck in Oregon. Unsuccessful, they returned home. Stephen's description of their return trip across the Isthmus of Panama and of a riot between natives and Americans is dramatic. Tired of the New England climate, Stephen left for California on January 21, 1852, and kept a store at Coulterville, on Maxwell's Creek for the next two years. News of his brother's death ended his California adventure… Read More

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