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Californien und das Goldfieber. Reisen in dem wilden Westen Nord-Amerika's, Leben und Sitten der Goldgräber, Mormonen und Indianer.

(BINDINGS - TREE OR POLISHED CALF)Biblio.com

BIOGRAPHIES MEMOIRS AND LETTERS OF SIX DISTINGUISHED BRITONS

1836ST14728eLondon 1836-50. Various editions. 224 x 137 mm. 8 3/4 x 5 1/2". 16 volumes. FINE CONTEMPORARY FULL CALF MOST EITHER TREE OR POLISHED CALF see below raised bands spines intricately gilt in compartments morocco labels marbled endpapers and edges. Some works with frontispiece portraits. Front pastedowns with engraved bookplate of Edward Nicholas Hurt see below. A LOVELY COLLECTION--WITH VIRTUALLY NO SIGNS OF USE. Handsomely bound with beautifully gilt spines and just about uniform in size these volumes make an impressive appearance on the shelf. The six titles here include: 1 DE SAUMAREZ JAMES. ROSS JOHN. "MEMOIRS AND CORRESPONDENCE OF ADMIRAL LORD DE SAUMAREZ." 1838 Two volumes. Polished calf. 2 ELDON JOHN LORD CHANCELLOR. TWISS HORACE. "THE PUBLIC AND PRIVATE LIFE OF LORD CHANCELLOR ELDON." 1844 Three volumes. Polished calf. 3 HORNER FRANCIS. "MEMOIRS AND CORRESPONDENCE OF FRANCIS HORNER M. P." 1843 Two volumes. Tree calf. 4 STANHOPE PHILIP DORMER. "THE LETTERS OF PHILIP DORMER STANHOPE EARL OF CHESTERFIELD." 1845; 1853 Five volumes. Tree calf. 5 TAYLOR WILLIAM. "THE LIFE AND WRITINGS OF THE LATE WILLIAM TAYLOR OF NORWICH." 1843 Two volumes. Tree calf. 6 WARD ROBERT PLUMER. PHIPPS EDMUND. "MEMOIRS OF THE POLITICAL AND LITERARY LIFE OF ROBERT PLUMER WARD ESQ." 1850 Two volumes. Polished calf. The bookplate here is that of notable bibliophile and barrister Edward Nicholas Hurt 1795-1867 of Derbyshire and Marylebone London. He married Caroline Strutt daughter of the immensely wealthy philanthropist and social reformer Joseph Strutt 1765-1844 who was twice Mayor of Derby. As the Strutt arms are incorporated into the escutcheon of Hurt's ornate bookplate the plate can be dated to no earlier than their wedding in 1828. unknown

Phillip J. Pirages Fine Books and Medieval Manuscripts · États-Unis2 600,00 $US≈ 2 199,86 €

California Gold Rush: Havens Langdon H.: Judd JW. J. W.ABAA

AUTOGRAPH NOTE SIGNED BY J.W. JUDD TO GUY R. PHELPS REGARDING A LIFE INSURANCE POLICY FOR LANGDON H. HAVENS A FORTY-NINER AND MEMBER OF JOHN WOODHOUSE AUDUBON'S ILL-FATED OVERLAND EXPEDITION TO CALIFORNIA IN 1849

1849WRCAM49949New York 1849. 1p. of a bifolium docketed on verso of second bifolium leaf. Mailing folds slight edge discoloration else fine. An intriguing note regarding life insurance for a forty-niner traveling to California in 1849 with Henry Webb and John Woodhouse Audubon. The note reads: "Langdon H. Havens wants a life insurance permit for California to go over the Overland Route in company with persons bearing dispatches from our Government in a Company of 100 or more. He wants to leave for Washington immediately." Perhaps the twenty-six-year- old Haven sometimes spelled Havens originally intended to join a safe government- sponsored expedition from Washington but he was in fact among the 100 Forty-Niners who embarked on a famously ill-fated overland expedition led by Army Colonel Henry Webb with John Woodhouse Audubon son of the famous ornithologist as his second in command which left New York on February 8. The company proceeded by ship train stagecoach and riverboat to New Orleans and from there by steamer across the Gulf of Mexico to the mouth of the Rio Grande where they arrived on March 13 - an odd overland route dictated by Webb a veteran of the Mexican-American War. There disaster struck. A dozen men died of cholera the company's money was stolen and leadership conflict led Webb to leave the company with a dozen followers. Some of the remaining stalwarts including Haven followed Audubon onward trekking for seven months through Mexico and Arizona the survivors finally reaching San Diego in November. Some then took a boat to San Francisco; others continued overland to the gold fields. As meticulously recorded by Audubon a naturalist and painter in his own right the entire venture has gone down in history as "one of the most poorly-planned" Forty-Niner expeditions "on record." Haven though nearly dying en route was one of the fortunate few who "made it to California." An appealing note dated in the famous year of the California Gold Rush that eerily anticipates the dangers inherent in overland travel in America in the 19th century. unknown books

William Reese Company · États-Unis600,00 $US≈ 507,66 €