Title: Mountains and Molehills: or Recollections of a Burnt Journal Author: Marryat, Frank Place: London Publisher: Longman, Brown, Green & Longmans Date: 1855 Description: x, [2], 443 pp. With 8 chromolithograph plates from drawings by the author. (8vo) 21.5x13.5 cm. (8¼x5¼"), three quarter calf and marbled boards, spine with gilt decorated compartments, red and green morocco spine labels lettered in gilt, marbled endpapers, top edge gilt. First Edition. With the decorative bookplate of Charles Homer Segerstrom. One of the most sought-after books on the California Gold Rush, noteworthy both for the striking color lithographs and the entertaining text. Wheat declares it an "excellent narrative of experiences in the diggings, with colored lithographic plates of great beauty and importance. The New York edition...lacked these remarkable plates" - Wheat. Kurutz quotes Howell as calling the book one of the best descriptions of life in the mines, and lauds both the graphic excellence of the plates as well as their revelation of the author's wry sense of humor. Cowan p.416; Graff 2685; Howes M299; Kurutz 329a; Wheat Gold Rush 137; Zamorano Eighty 52. Lot Amendments Condition: Light wear to binding with rubbing to extremities, a few small chips to calf; light toning to interior with occasional light foxing, last plate detached but present; very good. Item number: 287321
Title: Mountains and Molehills: or Recollections of a Burnt Journal Author: Marryat, Frank Place: London Publisher: Longman, Brown, Green & Longmans Date: 1855 Description: x, [2], 443 pp. With 8 chromolithograph plates from drawings by the author. (8vo) 21.5x13.5 cm. (8¼x5¼"), three quarter calf and marbled boards, spine with gilt decorated compartments, red and green morocco spine labels lettered in gilt, marbled endpapers, top edge gilt. First Edition. With the decorative bookplate of Charles Homer Segerstrom. One of the most sought-after books on the California Gold Rush, noteworthy both for the striking color lithographs and the entertaining text. Wheat declares it an "excellent narrative of experiences in the diggings, with colored lithographic plates of great beauty and importance. The New York edition...lacked these remarkable plates" - Wheat. Kurutz quotes Howell as calling the book one of the best descriptions of life in the mines, and lauds both the graphic excellence of the plates as well as their revelation of the author's wry sense of humor. Cowan p.416; Graff 2685; Howes M299; Kurutz 329a; Wheat Gold Rush 137; Zamorano Eighty 52. Lot Amendments Condition: Light wear to binding with rubbing to extremities, a few small chips to calf; light toning to interior with occasional light foxing, last plate detached but present; very good. Item number: 287321
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