Includes Browne's famous A Peep at Washoe, an account of his 1860 visit to Virginia City. Paher notes that "his is among the best and liveliest reports of the early Comstock boom, capturing the flavor of mining camps in good style." According to the early bookseller's entry tipped to the front free endpaper: "one of the first American travel books, if not the first, to be illustrated by its author." Cowan p.78; Howes B876; Paher 219. Provenance: From the Library of William Augustus Brewer.