11 volumes including index. Edited by George Peter Hammond. Illustrated, including frontispieces, from early photographs and other sources. 10¼x6½, green cloth, spines lettered in gilt, dust jackets. First Editions.

All volumes signed or inscribed by George P. Hammond to Ralph P. Bieber. Papers of Thomas Oliver Larkin, perhaps the most important merchant in Mexican California and the only U.S. Consul in the province. An important compilation, shedding light on events during a seminal period of California history, from 1822 to 1858.