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[PECK, GEORGE WASHINGTON]. Aurifodina; or, Adventures in the Gold Region. By Cantell A. Bigly [pseud.]. New York: Baker and Scribner, 1849. 1st ed. 12mo. 103 pp. Orig. boards. Front cover highly decorated, and attractively so, although whether by the publisher seems dubious. $1,000.00

 

Wright I, 2030. "...adventures in California among a strange people whose commonest possession was gold. Obviously modeled on Gulliver's Travels, it also suggests Poe's influence and in some ways is like Mark Twain's A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court." --DAB. Wheat 182, note. The first American novel relating to the California gold rush, but a lost race fiction as well, about a highly civilized land where gold is common and steel is the valuable rarity.