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Title: Notes of a Voyage to California Via Cape Horn, Together with Scenes in El Dorado, in the Years 1849-1850 Author: Upham, Samuel C. Place: Philadelphia Publisher: Published by the author Date: 1878 Description: [2], 7-594 pp. Wood-engraved plates; double frontispiece portraits. (8vo) 23x14 cm (9x5½") publisher's full black morocco, stamped and lettered in gilt, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. First Edition. Presentation inscription from the author on the front flyleaf to Mrs. Alex R. Robertson of Lima, Peru. "A clear and detailed account of a trip to California via Cape Horn in 1849, with return via Panama in 1850. The author was one of the original proprietors of the Sacramento Transcript, and the volume contains much of interest on early California newspapers and the Sacramento squatter riots of 1850" - Zamorano Eighty. Kurutz calls the book an "important reminiscence," and notes that it was sold by subscription in an edition of 600 copies. While not an altogether uncommon book, of the dozen copies we have offered over the last decade this is the first copy we have encountered in this deluxe morocco binding and no copies are recorded in this binding in recent auction records. Cowan p.652; Howes U23; Kurutz 647; Wheat Gold Rush 215; Zamorano Eighty 76. Lot Amendments Condition: Spine ends chipped, rubbed, hinges cracked; light foxing; very good. Item number: 289669