Name/Title
"CALIFORNIA: FOR HEALTH, PLEASURE, AND RESIDENCE. A BOOK FOR TRAVELLERS AND SETTLERS"Entry/Object ID
2004.162.1.1Description
"CALIFORNIA: FOR HEALTH, PLEASURE, AND RESIDENCE. A BOOK FOR TRAVELLERS AND SETTLERS"
Color: Black; Red; Gold
"California: For Health, Pleasure, and Residence. A Book For Travellers and Settlers" by Charles Nordhoff (New York: Harper & Brothers,) 1875. The item has a red fabric hardcover with the title and author imprinted in gold on the cover and spine. The cover has an abstract flower and leaf design on a 1" band at the top and bottom. The text of 255 pages includes twenty-six chapters on travelling to California, major attractions for tourists, mining, health benefits, agriculture, a visit to Los Angeles and environs, Indians as laborers, ranchos, the Chinese, viticulture, and other subjects. There are also appendices on southern California as a place for consumptives, comparative tables of southern California's climate with other known resorts for invalids in Georgia and Switzerland, and improvements in visiting Yosemite. There are also many illustrations in the form of drawings. With edge, corner and spine rubbing; spine brittleness; dented corners; cover soiling; page browning; slight lettering fading on the cover and spine; minor foxing on a few pages; scratches on the cover, especially on the back; stains on the cover; tears, particularly a one-inch one on the left edge of the spine; and an original pencil inscription from 1875 on the front flysheet, the general condition is good.Lexicon
Search Terms
Three-dimensional, Books, Harper & Brothers, Publishers, Agriculture--California, California--Description and travel--1869-1950, Voyages and travels--Guidebooks--California