1849 CALIFORNIA 1ed GOLD Rush Americana Slavery INDIANS Illustrated Tour of Duty

1849 CALIFORNIA 1^ed GOLD Rush Americana Slavery INDIANS Illustrated Tour of Duty

Joseph Warren Revere, grandson of Paul Revere, was a United States officer best known for being a Union Brigadier General in the Civil War. His book ‘A Tour of Duty in California” is a collection of personal essays of his experiences sailing from the Chesapeake to California. It became a guidebook for those traveling to the west coast. Revere included details on California’s history, people, environment, the gold fields and mines, the conquest of California, Indians of California and their wars, ceremonies, depredations, horses, hunting, revolts, African slavery in California and much more!

Per Cowan,

“One of the most valuable works of the period.”

Larned notes,

“His opportunities for first-hand observations were excellent, and no other book of the period is more accurate in respect to local nomenclature, and topography”

This 1849 first edition features a map and 5 plates!

Item number: #26922

Price: $750

REVERE, Joseph Warren

A tour of duty in California: including a description of the gold region ; and an account of the voyage around cape Horn; with notices of lower California, the Gulf and Pacific coasts, and the principal events attending the conquest of the Californias

New York: C.S. Francis & Co., Boston: J. H. Francis 1849. First Edition.

Details:

• Collation: Complete with all pages
  • [4], vi, [2], 305, [7]
  • 5 engraved plates, plus folding map
• References: Sabin 70182; Field, 1294; Larned 2066; Howes R 222; Graff 3474; Cowan 189-190; Zamorano 80, no. 63.
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardcover; tight and secure
• Size: ~8in x 5.25in (20cm x 13cm)
• Very rare and desirable with auction records and price comparisons at over $2000

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