[GOLD RUSH] MARRYAT, FRANCIS S. Mountains and Molehills or recollections of a burnt journal. London: Longman, Brown [&c], 1855. First edition. Publisher's salmon cloth, green endpapers. 8 3/4 x 5 5/8 inches (22 x 14.5 cm); x, 443, [1] pp., 24 pp. adverts.; with 8 color lithographic plates. Some soiling to cloth, the upper cover with "Duke of Leeds" written in ink (and with the Leeds ducal bookplate and one other on the endpapers). One signature slightly starting, but internally a clean copy. A classic account of California at the time of the gold rush, with illustrations after the author's drawings. Howes M299; Graff 2685; Wheat Gold Rush 137; Zamorano 80, 52. C Estate of Arnold 'Jake' Johnson
[GOLD RUSH] MARRYAT, FRANCIS S. Mountains and Molehills or recollections of a burnt journal. London: Longman, Brown [&c], 1855. First edition. Publisher's salmon cloth, green endpapers. 8 3/4 x 5 5/8 inches (22 x 14.5 cm); x, 443, [1] pp., 24 pp. adverts.; with 8 color lithographic plates. Some soiling to cloth, the upper cover with "Duke of Leeds" written in ink (and with the Leeds ducal bookplate and one other on the endpapers). One signature slightly starting, but internally a clean copy. A classic account of California at the time of the gold rush, with illustrations after the author's drawings. Howes M299; Graff 2685; Wheat Gold Rush 137; Zamorano 80, 52. C Estate of Arnold 'Jake' Johnson
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