California illustrated: including a description of the Panama and Nicaragua routes. By a returned Californian. [With plates
An anonymous gold-rush travel account, "California illustrated," issued by William Holdredge in 1852 for eastern readers weighing the Panama and Nicaragua passages to the diggings. The 48 lithographed plates are thin-lined landscape views, captioned in wide-spaced letterspaced capitals: miners washing at sluices, tents and adobe forts, plank-front settlements, riverbanks with scattered figures and single trees framing the middle distance.
