456 pp. 6 steel-engraved portrait plates; 6 duotone woodcut plates; map; folding facsimile. (12mo) 7¼x5¾, re-bound with most of original gilt-lettered black cloth, 3 leaves added at endpapers. First Edition.

Contains an oft-lacking facsimile of the California Declaration of Rights facing page 412. Rear pastedown bears a bookplate from the Wells Fargo Historical Society. "Colton, the first alcalde of Monterey under American control, wrote a diary largely devoted to interesting details of incidents connected with the author's administration of justice, with frequent remarks on the manners and customs of the people..." - Zamorano. Cowan p.137; Graff 839; Howes C625; Kurutz 151a; Wheat Gold Region p.74, map 148; Zamorano Eighty 20.