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Sale 392: Americana - Travel & Exploration - Maps (#392) 11/06/2008 1:00 PM PST Closed
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Lot #96 Death Valley in '49: Important Chapter of California Pioneer History

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Lot closed - Sold For (Includes Buyers Premium):$125

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Title:

Death Valley in '49: Important Chapter of California Pioneer History

Author:

Manly, William Lewis

Place Published:

San Jose

Publisher:

Pacific Tree and Vine Co.

Date Published:

1894

Description:

498 pp. Portrait frontispiece of the author; 3 plates from drawings. 7¾x5¼, original mustard cloth, front cover decorated and lettered in black, spine lettered in gilt. First Edition.

"Classic account, by a survivor, of dire sufferings endured by an emigrant party...through the valley called ever after by this fearful name" - Howes. Cowan p.412; Edwards, Graff 2670; Howes M255; Kurutz 427a; Zamorano Eighty 51.

Condition:

Spine worn; else very good.

Item#:

194544

Headline:

Manly, Death Valley in 1849, 1st Edition
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