Upper California

San Francisco: The Book Club of California, 1967 Book. Fine. Hardcover. Limited to 450 copies produced by Mallette Dean and James Beard. Translated from the German by Anthony & Max Knight. Introduction by Carroll D. Hall. Portrait, plate, facsimiles, endpaper map; woodcut decorations by Mallette Dean. Brick cloth, paper spine label; pictorial label on front cover. A fine copy. Reprinted from the first German pamphlet printed to promote emigration to California (1848). Because of its early date, it was an important source of information for the German gold seeker. The map shows the Sutter holdings on the Sacramento and Feather rivers, while the plate diagrams Sutter's fort at New Helvetia as it existed in 1847. [Kurutz: 385-b]. With prospectus laid in..