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[CALIFORNIA]. TAYLOR, Bayard (1825–1878). Eldorado; or, Adventures in the Path of Empire; Comprising a Voyage to California, via Panama; Life in San Francisco and Monterey; Pictures of the Gold Region; and Experiences of Mexican Travel. London: George Routledge and Co., 1850.
2 volumes, 12mo. 30 pp. publisher’s catalogue at end of Vol. I. Original printed boards (covers detached with some light surface wear, spines perished). Early edition from Routledge’s “Popular Library” (printed on upper covers), published in the same year as the first edition. Considered “one of the best descriptions of California life in 1849” (Cowan, p. 630). Kurutz 618f; Howes T43; Streeter V:2654.