Lot 332: Recollections of Pioneer Work in California

Name: Recollections of Pioneer Work in California
Brand: PBA Galleries Auctions & Appraisers
SKU: un1kq01zft

Est: $120 USD - $180 USDSold:

PBA Galleries Auctions & AppraisersBrookline, MA, USApril 08, 2004

Item Overview

Description

260 pp. 7 1/2 x4 1/2, original gilt-lettered green cloth. First Edition.

Rev. James Woods, a Presbyterian minister, traveled with his wife around Cape Horn to San Francisco in the summer of 1849, and shortly therafter removed to Stockton, where he established a church for that community. Kurutz notes that "his recollections are much more than an ecclesiastical history, as they give an articulate and human picture of life in that gateway to the Southern Mines...." Cowan p.694; Kurutz 697; Rocq 17257.

Artist or Maker

James Woods

Date

1878

Condition Report

Light soiling, mild rubbing to joints and extremities; else near fine.

Notes

Place: San Francisco
Publisher: Joseph Winterburn

Auction Details

Americana, with Manuscript Material, Maps & Atlases

PBA Galleries Auctions & Appraisers

April 08, 2004, 12:00 AM EST

Larz Anderson Park 15 Newton Park, Brookline, MA, 02445, US

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