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New York:: Angelina Book Concern, 1906.. 1st Edition.. Hardbound . BINDING/CONDITION: this has been newly and professionally rebound in leather, top edge gilt. Two of the plates are missing (plates between pages 114-5 and 242-3), otherwise the text is all Very Good; binding is new: dark wine leather.. 8vo (9.25 inches tall) . Description: Includes several b&w plates; one is a double page map of the area of the Feather and Yuba Rivers. Mining on the Yuba River and other experiences of a German gold-seeker. ''Letters and Diary of the California Pioneer, Edited in Memory of her Noble Husband, by Mrs Josephine Rosanna Lecouvreur.'' (Listed in Cowan, page 387; Wheat's Gold Rush, number 123)

New York & Los Angeles: Angelina Book Concern, 1906. First Edition, First Printing. A Very Good hardcover. Very Good/No Dust Jacket As Issued. Bindings square and tight. Front hinge firm but has some open spots Text clean with a few minor spots of foxing. Minor fading to spine .Light shelf handling. First Edition. xiii, -[14]-355 pp. With black-and-white plates throughout. 23x15 cm (9 x 6inches), Green cloth, gilt vignette on front panel.  Double page map of the area of the Feather and Yuba Rivers. Portrait frontispiece and 22 illustrations. REF: OCLC 816489039; CSL: B L468l; LCon: F865 .L46; Howes: L177. "When the late Frank Lecouvreur left his native land in 1851 for California, leaving behind his parents and the dear friends of his youth, following the promptings of his large heart he kept a careful journal of the sights and the unusual experiences that were his in travel, and in the new land he had chosen as a field for his activities." - Preface. During 1852 and 1853, the author was at the… Read More