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Auction: 13017 - Bonds and Share Certificates of the World
Lot: 749

BORTHWICK, J.D. Three Years in California. William Blackwood & Sons, Edinburgh, 1857. Octavo, 390 pages plus 16 pages of adverts, eight illustrations by the author throughout text. Untrimmed and re-bound in later blue cloth, gilt title on spine. Minor staining and marking throughout but a sound, tight copy.

First edition of one of the most important accounts of mining life in California during The Gold Rush. "I do not know of another story by an actual miner that is so well written and so true to that wonderful life in the Days of Gold" (Streeter). Borthwick's images of the diggings are among the best-known and most appreciated views of life in the mines.

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Estimate
£300 to £350