Round Cape Horn: Voyage of the Passenger-Ship James W. Paige from Maine to California in the Year 1852.
by LAMSON, J
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- Hardcover
- first
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Portland, Oregon, United States
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About This Item
Bangor: Press of O. F and W. H. Knowles, 1878. First edition. Small octavo. 156 pp. with textual illustrations. Original half black cloth over marbled boards, yellow endpapers. Cloth lifting a bit along front joint. Small typographic bookplate to front pastedown and old woodcut of "Lassoing a Grizzly' to rear pastedown. Very clean copy."Lamson left Frankfort, Maine, on April 3, 1852, on the barque James W. Paige. Shipping around Cape Horn, he and his fellow passengers arrived in the San Francisco harbor on September 7. Lamson devotes the vast majority of his book to the 158-day journey" (Kurutz #389).
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- Bookseller
- Nat DesMarais Rare Books, ABAA (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 71230
- Title
- Round Cape Horn: Voyage of the Passenger-Ship James W. Paige from Maine to California in the Year 1852.
- Author
- LAMSON, J
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Press of O. F and W. H. Knowles
- Place of Publication
- Bangor
- Date Published
- 1878
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Nat DesMarais Rare Books, ABAA
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Portland, Oregon
About Nat DesMarais Rare Books, ABAA
Nat DesMarais Rare Books specializes in books on the Sierra Nevada (particularly Yosemite), the Mojave, and California books in general. We also deal in the art of the American West, voyages and travels and nineteenth century literature.
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