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Description:
Dix, John Ross (1811-1863) Amusing and Thrilling Adventures of A California Artist, While Daguerreotyping a Continent. Boston: Published for the Author, 1854. 16mo, stitched, lacking wrapper, illustrated with wood engravings, 92 pages, 7 1/8 x 4 5/8 in.
Note: The full title of the text reads Amusing and Thrilling Adventures of A California Artist, While Daguerreotyping a Continent, Amid Burning Deserts, Savages, and Perpetual Snows and A Poetical Companion to the Pantoscope of California, Nebraska & Kansas, Salt Lake & the Mormons.
Estimate $1,000-2,000
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