A TALE OF TWO OCEANS; A 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.
Barra, Ezekiel I.:
San Francisco. 1893. 198pp., including illustrations. Titlepage vignette. Modern half morocco and marbled boards, spine gilt. Slight scuff on the titlepage (affecting the vignette) else fine. "Barra, a San Francisco character, succeeded in extracting from his log that which is usually lacking in the rigid sameness of Atlantic to California voyages - a readable narrative" - Hill. Cowan states that Barra worked for a time as a saloon-keeper catering to the printing trade. Includes a detailed account of the Neptune drama as enacted on the ship upon crossing the equator. Printed for the author, in a limited edition. HILL 55. GRAFF 193. HOWES (1954 ed) 590. COWAN, p.35. KURUTZ 37.
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