Sale 2432 - Printed & Manuscript Americana, November 17, 2016

60 ● (CALIFORNIA.) Borthwick, John Douglas. Three Years in California. 8 litho- graph plates. vi, [2], 384 pages. 8vo, contemporary red calf gilt, minor wear, rejointed; dealer description tipped to front free endpaper, lacking the usual 8 ad leaves; edges gilt; gilt seal on front board and prize bookplate of the Collegii Cluenensis Soc. Jesus—an Irish Jesuit school called ClongowesWood College. Edinburgh, 1857 [500/750] FIRST EDITION of the memoirs of an English gold miner on Weaver Creek in 1851, with illustra- tions after his own vivid drawings. Cowan 1933, page 65 (“a faithful and graphic picture of his mining experiences”); Graff 358; Howes B622 (“aa”); Sabin 6436; Streeter sale V:2817;Wheat, Books of the Gold Rush 21 (“the best illustrations the period produced”); Zamorano Eighty 8. 61 ● (CALIFORNIA.) Brown, John Henry. Reminiscences and Incidents, of “The Early Days” of San Francisco. Folding plan. [106] pages. 8vo, publisher’s yellow cloth gilt, minor wear; minor foxing to plan and endpapers, otherwise clean internally. San Francisco, [1886] [1,500/2,500] FIRST EDITION . “John Henry Brown was a fur trader, bartender, citizen-soldier, hotel builder, capitalist, man of affairs, and author. A prominent figure in San Francisco in the early days, 1846- 1850, Brown observed and was told of many happenings there. He met many men, both the great and the near great. His reminiscences fill in many of the gaps in the early history of San Francisco”— Zamorano Eighty 10. Cowan 1933, page 77; Graff 429; Howes B853 (“b”); Streeter saleV:2999; Wheat, Gold Rush 23. Lots 60 through 95 are from the Californiana collection of Timothy Treacy (1932-2015) of San Francisco, whose mountaineering collection was sold at Swann on October 18.This section includes 46 books on the Zamorano 80 list of distinguished California books. 60