Thomas A. Goldwasser Rare Books

Scenes de la vie Californienne.; Traduites de l'Allemand par Gustave Revilliod

Gerstäcker, Friedrich

Geneva: Fick, 1859. Gandon, A. First illustrated edition, and the first edition in French. Original brown cloth, slight rubbing, near fine. This edition contains six fine etchings printed on india paper. The German edition (which was unillustrated) appeared in 1856. This edition follows by three years the rare Leipzig printing; but no English edition appeared until 1942. "Gerstäcker's fictionalized California sketches, like his Travels, consists of descriptions of San Francisco and the mines....The French translation is embellished with A. Gandon's beautiful and sometimes humorous etchings" Kurutz 266b. Item #21462

Price: $500.00