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Sixteen Months at the Gold Diggings
by Woods, Daniel B
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About This Item
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1851. 8vo. 190 x 115 mm., (7 1/2 x 4 1/2 inches). viii, 9-199 pp., plus 6, 6, 4 pp. publisher's ads. Original cloth, edges and corners chipped, spine a bit chipped and text block shaken; some dark staining to the lower corner of the text block,; wanting rear end paper. First edition. Authentic account of the gold fields in California, written as a "miner's manual", in which the miner "may find important directions relating to the various mining operations." Daniel B. Woods of Philadelphia sailed to California in February 1849, crossing Mexico to San Blas, and arriving in San Francisco in June. His book is a narrative of his "sixteen months at the gold diggings (1849-50) and recounts those travels as well as his experiences as a prospector in the Northern Mines on the American River and at Hart's Bar and other camps in the Southern Mines before starting home in November 1850. His book offers an exceptionally realistic picture of the drudgery of mining and the business side of miners' companies." Woods book ". . . is a valuable contribution to the history of mining camps and communities and the laws and regulations adopted. . ." An English edition was also printed in 1851, and a reprint of the New York edition appeared in 1852. Sabin 105123. Howes W 651. Wheat Gold Rush, 235. Zamorano 80. See notes from the Library of Congress copy.
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- Title
- Sixteen Months at the Gold Diggings
- Author
- Woods, Daniel B
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- Publisher
- Harper & Brothers
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1851
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De Simone Company is presently offering rare books, manuscripts, illustrated books, broadsides, and ephemera documenting American history during the 19th century. We encourage you to visit our website where you will find numerous catalogues listing our offering. Visit www.desimonecompanybooksellers.com.De Simone Company also specializes in early Italian books and manuscripts, mostly in the fields of social science, history, antiquarian bibliography and illustrated books. The Company has a particular interest in books, manuscripts, ephemera printed in, or about, the history of Ferrara, Italy and is always interested in purchasing book on the subject.In January of 2017, Daniel De Simone retired from the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, D. C as the Eric Weinmann Librarian, where he directed the operations of the Central Library. De Simone came to the Folger from the Library of Congress after serving as the Curator of the Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection in the Rare Book and Special Collections Division for 14 years.Before his appointment as Rosenwald Curator in 2000, he operated his own New York based bookselling business for 22 years. Since retirement he has begun bookselling once again and is again a member of the Antiquarian Booksellers Association of America and the International League of Antiquarian Booksellers. He is also a member of the Grolier Club, NY, the Association Internationale de Bibliophile, Paris, and the Print Council of America.
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