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ALDRICH, LORENZO D. A Journal of the Overland Route to California! And the Gold Mines. Lansingburgh, N. Y.: Alexr. Kirkpatrick, 1851. 8vo, 48 pp., printed wrappers (wrappers in facsimile); final leaf of text and wrappers in facsimile; half morocco slipcase. FIRST EDITION of "the first printed account - aside from Pattie - of a civilian journey through Arizona" (Howes). Graff, 29; Howes A109 (with a "dd" rating for "superlatively rare...almost unobainable" and locating only 4 copies (including the Streeter copy) "[all known]"; Streeter V, 2657; Wagner-Camp, 194.