Buy this book on-line By Daniel Knower, Introduction & Extended Notes Kenneth M. Johnson , Plain White Endpapers, Illustrations & Old map reproduced from Originals of Augusto or Auguste Ferran, monochrome illust : The Adventures of a Forty-Niner [49er] FORTY NINER, Most unusual Record of Gentlemanly Fortune hunting at San Francisco in 1849, with much Intimate Anecdote of Famous Californians, An Historic Description of California",Lewis Osborne, Ashland Oregon, 1971
HBDJ, 1971, 1st Limited Edition, #360/600 Copies, 1st Printing THUS, FINE/FINE-, AS-IS, DJ Protected by Clear Mylar, 107 pgs + COLOPHON, Plain White Dustjacket Light Wear, Green cloth binding, with gilt stamping of man & Mule on front Cvr. ,Daniel Knower (1823-97) set sail in New York for California on the ship Georgia on July 1, 1849. After crossing the Isthmus of Panama, he boarded the steamer Panama and landed in San Francisco on August 18. He planned to make money by selling prefabricated houses that he shipped to the Golden State, and the major portion of his recollections are devoted to life during the height of gold fever in San Francisco, where he formed a partnership with Colonel J.D. Stevenson in the lumber business. Click here for full details of this book, to ask a question or to buy it on-line. Bibliophile Bookbase probably offers multiple copies of By Daniel Knower, Introduction & Extended Notes Kenneth M. Johnson , Plain White Endpapers, Illustrations & Old map reproduced from Originals of Augusto or Auguste Ferran, monochrome illust : The Adventures of a Forty-Niner [49er] FORTY NINER, Most unusual Record of Gentlemanly Fortune hunting at San Francisco in 1849, with much Intimate Anecdote of Famous Californians, An Historic Description of California",. Click here to select from a complete list of available copies of this book. Bibliophile Bookbase lists over 5 million books, maps and prints including out of print books, out-of-print books, first editions, livres rares and libri rari. Bibliophile Bookbase for antiquarian books, maps and prints. |