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WITH TAYLOR’S SIGNED 1849 FAREWELL NOTE TIPPED IN
66 ● (CALIFORNIA.) Taylor, Bayard. Eldorado, or, Adventures in the Path of
Empire, Comprising a Voyage to California, via Panama. 8 tinted plates. 2 vol-
umes. 12mo, publisher’s cloth, minor wear; minor foxing; catalogue description, 2
Autograph Letters Signed by Taylor and his signed card all tipped in; bookplates on front
pastedowns. [12] pages of undated publisher’s ads at end of Volume II.
New York, 1850 [700/1,000]
Second edition. One of the tipped-in Taylor letters was written on the eve of his departure for
California, to Anne Lynch on 26 June 1849: “As I shall not see you again before leaving, let
this be my good-bye. I hope to be back from my rambles on the Pacific Coast by December.”
“Probably the outstanding book on the early gold rush. . . . The colored plates are beautifully
tinted works of art”—Zamorano Eighty 73. Howes T43; Kurutz 618c (calls for 32 pages of
ads); Sabin 94440; Wheat, Gold Rush 204. Provenance: Collection of historian Catherine
Coffin Phillips (bookplates); California Book Auctions’ Kenneth M. Johnson sale, 22
September 1984, lot 557.
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65 ● (CALIFORNIA.) New England
Dinner, at the Orleans Hotel, Sacramento,
California. Ornamented letterpress broadside,
133/4 x 81/4 inches; folds, minor wear, short tape
repair on verso.
[Sacramento, CA]: Democratic State Journal
Office, 22 December 1853 [500/750]
The menu for a patriotic dinner given for the many
New England emigrants in Sacramento,to commemorate
the anniversary of the first landing party at
Plymouth, MA in 1620. The bill of fare is an
interesting culinary synthesis, including old New
England classics such as clam chowder and Indian
pudding alongside antelope and salmon. Printed
just three years after the first press was established
in Sacramento, and the year before the city was
established as the state capital. The proprietor of
the Orleans Hotel was Henry J. Bidleman, who
was also later a publisher in the city. This was
apparently his retained copy, as his daughter Mary
has signed her name several times in pencil on the
verso. No other copies traced.