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Lot 464
[CALIFORNIA]. MANLY, William L. (1820–1903). Death Valley i...
Estimate: $300 - $400
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[CALIFORNIA]. MANLY, William L. (1820?1903).?Death Valley in ?49: Important Chapter of California Pioneer History.?San Jose, CA: The Pacific Tree and Vine Co., 1894. 8vo. Portrait frontispiece, 3 plates from drawings. Original mustard yellow cloth stamped in black, gilt?lettered spine (few spots of rubbing at extremes, tiny stain on lower cover, rear hinge cracked). Provenance: Daniel Volkmann (book label), noted Zamorano 80 collector; sold at Joseph and Mildred Rolph Moore Gallery, 5 February 2003, Volkmann?s complete Zamorano 80 collection. FIRST EDITION of this ?classic account, by a survivor, of dire sufferings endured by an emigrant party on a short?cut from Salt Lake City to California through the valley called ever after by this fearful name? (Howes). Cowan, p. 412; Graff 2670; Howes M255; Kurutz 427a; Wheat Gold Rush 136; Wheat Transmississippi West III:103; Zamorano Eighty, 51.
