Utazás Kalifornia déli részeiben / irta Xántus János, a Természettudomá́́nyok Philadelphiai Akademiá́ja, az Amerikai Philosophiai Társulats a Bostoni Athenaeum rendes tagja ; egy földképpel, nyolcz köés nyolcz fametszettel.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Xántus, János, 1825-1894, author, illustrator.

Contributor:

Lauffer és Stolp, publisher.

Haske és Társa, engraver.

Language:

Hungarian

Subjects (All):

Xántus, János, 1825-1894--Travel--California, Southern.

Xántus, János.

California, Southern--Description and travel.

California, Southern.

Hungarians--Travel--California, Southern.

Hungarians.

Xántus, János, 1825-1894.

Hungarians--Travel.

Travel.

Southern California.

Genre:

color lithographs.

Travel writing.

Travel literature -- California, Southern -- 1860.

Physical Description:

10 unnumbered pages, 191 pages, 3 unnumbered pages, 9 unnumbered leaves of plates (1 folded) : color illustrations, map ; 23 cm

8vo

Manufacture:

Pesten : Nyomatott Herz Jánosnál, 1859.

Place of Publication:

Pesten : Kiadják Lauffer és Stolp, 1860.

Summary:

Account of travel in southern California by János Xántus, Hungarian naturalist, and one of the pioneering ornithologists of California, Hungarian Freedom Fighter, and political refugee who immigrated to the United States in the 1850s and served as a member of the U.S. Army Topographical Engineers. His account includes a description of Los Angeles, and a section on the Tejon Indians in the San Joaquin Valley, with a list of their numerals and a vocabulary of the language.

Notes:

The 1860 edition was the first authorized edition, having been preceded by an unauthorized edition of 1858, containing materials not intended to be published.

Text illustrated with woodcuts, and eight tinted lithographs signed by Xántus, and dated 1858; and engraved by Haske és Társa, dated 1859. According to Sabin, several drawings appear to have been copied, with only minor changes, from those of R. H. Kern in Sitgreave's "Report of an Expedition down the Zuni and Colorado Rivers."

Includes [3] pages of publisher's advertisements at end.

Local Notes:

HSP and Balch Non-English

Cited in:

Cowan, R.E. A bibliography of the history of California, 1510-1930, p. 697

Cowan, R.E. Bibliography of the history of California, 1510-1930, volume II, page 697

Rocq, M.M. California local history (2nd ed.), 16433

Newberry Library. Catalogue of the Everett D. Graff Collection of Western Americana, 4785

Parke-Bernet Galleries. Celebrated collection of Americana formed by the late Thomas Winthrop Streeter, 2860

Sabin, J. Dictionary of books relating to America from its discovery to the present time, 105715

Wagner, H.R. Plains & the Rockies (4th ed.), 316

Wheat, C.I. Books of the California gold rush, 237

Wright Howes, the final edition of U.S.iana, X2

University of California, San Diego. Hill collection of Pacific voyages, 1921

OCLC:

4998422