(CALIFORNIA) Farnham Thomas Jefferson Pictorial Edition Life

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(CALIFORNIA.) Farnham, Thomas Jefferson. Pictorial Edition!!! Life, Adventures, and Travels in California. Hand-colored folding map (short closed tear off stub), numerous full-page illustrations. 8vo, publisher's cloth gilt, minimal wear; minor foxing; signature of W.R. Jones on front free end paper, believed to be whaling and insurance magnate Walter Restored Jones (1793-1855). New York, 1849

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first edition thus, expanded from Farnham's 1844 Travels in the Californias. Complete with the frequently absent map, titled "Map of Gold Regions of California. Showing the Routes via Chagres and Panama, Cape Horn, &c." Farnham was one of the earliest Americans on the West Coast, arriving with the Oregon Dragoons in 1839. His "Travels in Oregon" form an appendix here. Cowan 1933, page 203; Howes F49; Sabin 23868.