The Historic Times 1849 - bound compilation of the issues between January and July 1849 of what started out as a 'Christian' journal but which had changed to a 'Family' journal by July. Lacking back board and a few pages from the last edition, but otherwise interior contents are fresh. With considerable steel engraved illustrations including many full page. Wealth of topics but including contemporaneous reports on a missing artic expedition, and the California gold rush