Mar 31, 2011 - Sale 2241

Sale 2241 - Lot 66

Price Realized: $ 420
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 600 - $ 900
(CALIFORNIA.) Chavannes de la Giraudière, H. de. Les Petits Voyageurs en Californie. 8 chromolithograph plates. 8vo, chromolithographed paper-covered boards, minor wear; just a bit of foxing. Tours, France, 1853
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A French novel about a widower and his two young sons who sail for the California gold fields. The plates include a view of San Francisco and redwood trees. Hint: if any of your children are too young to safely carry a gun, they can still use a pitchfork help kill a grizzly bear. See illustration. Cowan 1964, page 837.