Barra, Ezekiel I: Tale of Two Oceans; New Story by an Old Californian. An Account of a Voyage from Philadelphia to San Francisco, Around Cape Horn, Years 1849-50, Calling at Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, and at Juan Fernandez, in the South Pacific

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Barra, Ezekiel I : Tale of Two Oceans; New Story by an Old Californian. An Account of a Voyage from Philadelphia to San Francisco, Around Cape Horn, Years 1849-50, Calling at Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, and at Juan Fernandez, in the South Pacific

Eastman and Company, San Francisco, CA, 1893

Original publisher's brown wrapper with an illustration on the front cover showing Robinson Crusoe Island, Juan Fernandez, and a ship in a bay. 5 3/4" x 9." 198 pages, complete. Black and white illustrations, complete. Pages are very clean and intact. Covers are clean and intact overall. Chipping on the spine and the top-right corner of the front cover is missing. Referenced from Kurutz, no. 37: "Printer's Imprint: Press of Eastman & Co. ... Binding: Tan pictorial wrappers, stapled. Cover title. Illustrations: Seven engravings. ... Barra, acording to Cowan, worked at one time as a saloon keeper catering to the printing trade. These privately printed reminiscences are based on a log or 'sea diary.' Barra took the ship SAMSON from Philadelphia on October 5, 1849, and reached Rio de Janeiro on December 20. He changed ships to the Urania, on which he worked for his passage. He arrived at San Francisco on May 3 and made a partial list of abandoned ships in the harbor. Historian and collector John Goodman, in notes accompanying his copy, stated that Barra's Samson actually was the 371-ton ship HERCULES and that Captain Madian and not Brainard, guided the ship. The ship sailed from Philadelphia on October 23, 1849, and arrived at San Francisco on August 3, 1850. Goodman further stated that there was not a Samson of any kind arriving at San Francisco in 1849-50.". Book. Book Condition: Very Good. Binding: Soft cover

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