[VOLLMER, Carl G.W.].

Kalifornien och Guldfebern,

Item #32876

[VOLLMER, Carl G.W.]. Kalifornien och Guldfebern. Guldgrafvarnes, Mormonernas och Indianernas seder och Bruck, Skildrade, under en Resa Genom Vestra Nordamerika.Af Dr. W.F.A. Zimmermann [pseud]. Stockholm: C.H. Falhstedts Forlag, [1862]. Illus. with 8 plates in color. Orig. calf-backed boards. A very good copy. Howes V-140. Wheat Gold Rush 238. Flake 9491. Cowan, p. 701. Very scarce; there was never an edition in English. Tales of adventures and travel in the California gold regions and environs, with some material on the role of the Mormons in the gold discoveries and their colonization in the West. Oddly, Wheat and Flake give precedence to the 1863 Berlin edition, the former not even noting this first edition. The lithographed plates include vivid depictions of a prairie fire, a lynching, a buffalo hunt, and scenes round and about the gold fields. There are several text illustrations in addition to the color plates.

Price: $500.00