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Boston: B. J. Brimmer Company. Good with no dust jacket. 1923. Hardcover. A account of a voyage from Newburyport, Massachusetts to San Francisco by Richard L. Hale and subsequent adventures between 1849 and 1854. Edited from her father's manuscripts by his daughter Carolyn Hale Russ, who has supplied a foreword. With illustrations by Richard Hale, along with plates bearing photographic portraits and journal entries. --- In dark green paper-covered boards backed in navy cloth, with paper labels to cover and spine. --- Despite wear to cover edges, partial loss of spine label, prior owner's signature to front paste-down, and some discoloration to a few leaves volume remains firm and solid.; Tall Octavo (9 to 10 in. tall); 183 pages .
THE LOG OF A FORTY-NINER. Journal of a Voyage from Newbury-port to San Francisco in the Brig Genl Worth Commanded by Capt. Samuel Walton, Kept by Richard L. Hale, Newburyport, Mass. by Hale, Richard L., edited by Carolyn Hale Russ - 1923
by Hale, Richard L., edited by Carolyn Hale Russ
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THE LOG OF A FORTY-NINER. Journal of a Voyage from Newbury-port to San Francisco in the Brig Genl Worth Commanded by Capt. Samuel Walton, Kept by Richard L. Hale, Newburyport, Mass.
by Hale, Richard L., edited by Carolyn Hale Russ
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Boston: B. J. Brimmer Co., 1923. hardcover. Good. Black and white illustrations. Quarto, (approx. 6 7/8" wide by 9 3/4" tall), blue cloth spine over green boards with paper labels on top cover and spine. Top edge gilt. Former owner's bookplate on front paste-down endpaper. Top front cover corner bumpped and worn. Goldseekers taking the sea route from the east coast had to travel around Cape Horn of south American to reach California in the days before the Panama Canal. Gold Rush.
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The Log of a Forty-Niner: Journal of a Voyage From Newburyport to San Francisco in the Brig Gen'l Worth Commanded By Captain Samuel Walton
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The Log of a Forty-Niner; Journal of a voyage from Newbury-port to San Francisco in the Brig. Gen.al Worth Commanded By Captn. Samuel Walton, Kept By Richard L. Hale, Newbury, Mass
by Hale, Richard L
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Boston: B. J. Brimmer, 1923. Edited by Carolyn Hale Russ. 183p., b/w illus., half-cloth with stiff boards.
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