(CALIFORNIA) Hastings Lansford Warren A New Description of O

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(CALIFORNIA.) Hastings, Lansford Warren. A New Description of Oregon and California. Full-page engraving and illustrated title page. 160 pages. 8vo, original illustrated wrappers, moderate wear, lacking most of backstrip, inner margins restored, possibly re-stapled; moderate dampstaining; inked bookseller's stamp on front wrapper, later bookplate on printed inner wrapper. In modern 1/4 morocco slipcase. Cincinnati, OH, 1857

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Ninth edition of a popular guide issued under several titles. Includes an account of his 1842 overland journey to Oregon, and his subsequent travels to California. It promoted California over Oregon. Misleading directions in the 1845 first edition contributed to the tragedy of the Donner Party. "The larger importance of the Guide lay in its powerful appeal generated by its fanciful picture of California and its promise of 'as much land as you want'"--Wagner Camp 116:9. Cowan 1933, page 270; Howes H288 ("b").