The Experiences of a Forty-Niner During Thirty-Four Years’ Residence in California and Australia

Ferguson, Charles D. (Text by); Frederick T. Wallace (Edited by). The Experiences of a Forty-Niner During Thirty-Four Years’ Residence in California and Australia. Cleveland: The Williams Publishing Company, 1888. First edition.

Quarto (9 x 6 1/4″). XVIII, 9-507, [1]pp. Original black-stamped burgundy cloth, with gold lettering to spine and front cover. Decorative endpapers. Three engraved frontispieces.

Illustrated with numerous steel engravings, this work tells (in the first ten chapters) the overland journey to the gold fields by the Ohio native Charles D. Ferguson, followed by three chapters on California gold digging, with the rest of the text devoted to travels and mining in Australia and New Zealand. (For more information, see: Decker 23:167. Flake 3324. Eberstadt 125:114. Wheat Gold Rush 74. Cowan, p.106. Ferguson 9584. Graff 1035. Kurutz 235a).

Binding partly darkened and rubbed along edges and covers. Binding in overall good-, interior in very good condition. g- to vg. Hardcover. (42152) $95