Research Catalog

Title

California and its resources : a work for the merchant, the capitalist, and the emigrant / by Ernest Seyd.

Author

Seyd, Ernest, 1833-1881.

Publication

London, Trübner, 1858.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Lewis, Edward, active 1857-1859
• Böhm, Gideon, active 1857-1859
• Trübner & Co. publisher.
• J. and W. Rider printer.

Description

2 leaves, 168 p. : col. front., plates (part col.) 2 fold. maps; 22 cm.

Uniform Title

Western Americana, 1550-1900 reel 485, no. 4851.

Subject

• California > Economic conditions
• California > Description and travel

Genre/Form

• Wood engravings – 1858.
• Lithographs – 1858.
• Engravings – 1858.
• Publishers' cloth bindings (Binding) – England – London – 1858.
• Publishers' cloth bindings (Publishing) – England – London – 1858.

Note

• Master microform held by: ResP.

Indexed In (note)

• Howes, U.S.IANA

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Introductory remarks -- California--Its present position and population -- Gold-mining -- Other mineral products, and remarks on the Gadsden Purchase -- The commerce of California -- Rates of interest ; Investment of capital ; Building the land; Banking matters -- Correspondence of the "Times" -- Agricultural resources of California -- The prospects of the labourer, the mechanic, the domestic servant, etc., in California -- The different routes to California.

LCCN

nuc87773908^

OCLC

• 938349
• SCSB-11095712

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library