A Ride over the Rocky Mountains to Oregon and California. With a Glance at Some of the Tropical Islands, including the West Indies and the Sandwich Isles. Americana staged photographs of amateur actors

staged photographs of amateur actors paired with occasionally rather clumsy verse

while small pox patients where [sic] being carried away" (July 20

Long pencil notation to verso

was a teacher in Santa Clara

A Ride over the Rocky Mountains to Oregon and California. With a Glance at Some of the Tropical Islands, including the West Indies and the Sandwich Isles. Americana staged photographs of amateur actorsLondon: Richard Bentley, 1852. First edition. 23 cm. x, 388, [2], [2, blank], [16, ads]. Original burgundy marbled cloth, frontispiece portrait of the author. Edgeworn, with slight chipping to spine foot and joints; evidence of adhesive removal (presumably library labels) to spine; front joint cracked, with corresponding gutter break following title leaf; one leaf detached but present; spine cocked; occasional minor foxing. Ex library, with moderate