BRUFF, Joseph Goldsborough (1804?1889).?Gold Rush: The Journals, Drawings and Other Papers of?Captain, Washington City and California Mining Association April 2, 1849?July 20, 1851.?Edited by Georgia Willis Read and Ruth Gaines. With a foreword by F.W. Hodge. New York: Columbia University Press, 1944. 2 volumes, royal 8vo. Numerous illustrations from sketches and drawings by Bruff. Original black cloth?backed boards, spines lettered in gilt; original card slipcase with printed cover label (edges worn, rear panel partially separated). FIRST EDITION of the ?most elaborate of overland narratives? (Howes) that contains ?detailed journals and drawings of a trained draughtsman and engineer, who resigned his army commission and travels from Washington, D.C., to the diggings? (Wheat). Howes R91; Mattes 377; Wheat Gold Rush 25; Zamorano Select 9.