1851 · New York
by Woods, Daniel B.
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1851. 8vo. 190 x 115 mm., (7 1/2 x 4 1/2 inches). viii, 9-199 pp., plus 6, 6, 4 pp. publisher's ads. Original cloth, edges and corners chipped, spine a bit chipped and text block shaken; some dark staining to the lower corner of the text block,; wanting rear end paper. First edition. Authentic account of the gold fields in California, written as a "miner's manual", in which the miner "may find important directions relating to the various mining operations." Daniel B. Woods of Philadelphia sailed to California in February 1849, crossing Mexico to San Blas, and arriving in San Francisco in June. His book is a narrative (truncated)