An 1850 Voyage: San Francisco to Baltimore by Sea and by Land
Hardcover
1967 · Palo Alto
by Stillman, Jacob D.B.
Palo Alto: Lewis Osborne, 1967 Book. Fine. Hardcover. First book edition (first published serially in the Overland Monthly). Limited to 2350 copies. Foreword by John Barr Tompkins. 109pp. Illustrations from early prints, endpaper maps. Turquoise cloth, gilt anchor device stamped on front cover. A very fine copy. Stillman's narra tive of his extraordinary trip back home to Baltimore from San Francisco in 1850. He traveled on the ship Plymouth from San Francisco to Realejo port in Nicaragua, followed by a canoe trip up-river to the town of Realejo. Then came (truncated)