[with] Boyle, Dr. Charles E. California[:] A Travel Over the Plains and Residence in the Land of Gold. Various locations en route overland to and in California, entries from 2 April 1849 to 26 August 1849. Small 4to (10.25” x 8”), half black leather, raised bands and gilt rules, black.....
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An extraordinary archive of a noted Hawaiian missionary couple, including over thirty years of epistolary journals, firsthand accounts of voyages to Micronesia and the Marquesas, numerous letters, a substantial collection of Hawaiian photos, several manuscript maps, and a charming original watercolor of the Emerson house in Waialua. Also included are.....
An important, unpublished, and exceptionally well-written “brown-water navy” journal kept between 1862 and 1863 during a critical phase in the execution of the Union’s Anaconda Plan on the Mississippi River, featuring extensive battle and contraband content as well as two important maps. Evidently from Cape Breton, Canada (some 40,000 Canadians.....
A delightfully illustrated and engagingly written journal recording a seven month voyage from Eastport, Maine around Cape Horn to San Francisco, including several brief but interesting stops in the southern hemisphere, a severe storm that nearly destroyed the ship, and a rather skeptical first impression of San Francisco, with a......
A curious journal containing entries dated at 11am and 5pm almost every day and recording a civilian’s perspective on the close of the Civil War, including an account of Lincoln’s lying in state in Buffalo following his assassination. The volume’s obsessive regularity, unusual penmanship and style, and sporadic visual embellishments.....