183 - North America - GERSTÄCKER (Friedrich). Scenes from California Life. Translated from the German by Gustave Revilliod. Geneva, Imprimerie de Jules-Gme Fick, 1859. 8vo, brown chagrin-patterned percaline cardboard, gilt title on the spine (contemporary binding).

North America - GERSTÄCKER (Friedrich). Scenes from California Life. Translated from the German by Gustave Revilliod. Geneva, Imprimerie de Jules-Gme Fick, 1859. 8vo, brown chagrin-patterned percaline cardboard, gilt title on the spine (contemporary binding). First edition of the French translation, published three years after the *Californische Skizzen* (Leipzig, 1856). It is illustrated with 6 out-of-text etchings by Adolphe Gandon, printed on mounted China paper. An interesting collection of stories inspired by the personal experiences of Friedrich Gerstäcker (1816–1872), a German writer and adventurer who lived in California during the Gold Rush, around 1850. A true immersion (worthy of a good Western) into the lives of gold prospectors, pioneers, cowboys, and Native Americans of the American West. A gift from that era to Georges Goisset, signed by R[ené] Martin, with a handwritten note by G. Goisset: “Reread sixty years later! Requiescat Renata in pace […]” A few scattered foxing spots.