Digging for gold without a shovel;: The letters of Daniel Wadsworth Coit from Mexico City to San Francisco 1848-1851

Hardcover; As New; No Dust Jacket; 116 pp., frontis, index, illustrations, deckled edges. A pristine "as new" copy in its original clear acetate cover. Limited to 1250 copies, printed by Lawton & Alfred Kennedy. A very readable book consisting of letters written to his wife from a educated businessman and his travels and adventures starting in Mexico and ending in the California gold fields where he prospered not from manual labor. EXCEPTIONAL CONDITION.