MCCLELLAN, THE GOLDEN STATE, Circa 1872, Western Americana, California, Mormons, Illustrated

R. Guy McClellan. The Golden State: A History of the Region West of the Rocky Mountains; Embracing California, Oregon, Nevada, Utah, Arizona, Idaho, Washington Territory, British Columbia, and Alaska. Philadelphia: William Flint & Company. Octavo. Publisher’s black cloth, spine and upper cover stamped in gilt and blind. Illustrated with a frontispiece plate and text engravings.

Moderately worn; cloth chipped with loss along front joint, spine head, and spine tail; gilt rubbed on spine; corners bumped; severe offsetting and foxing to frontispiece and title leaf; tide lines along rear inner gutter.