Signed by William Ingraham Kip in pencil, the first Episcopal Bishop in California, who arrived in San Francisco in 1854. "Written in the form of an allegory, this work gives many details of Californian life. The author, a clergyman, was the founder of the Congregational church in California, having arrived in 1849. The plates...are apparently some of the earlier work of Charles Nahl..." - Greenwood. Kurutz notes that the topics of the allegorical lectures include arrival in San Francisco, visit to Stockton, Sacramento, election day, Sacrameto burned, etc.; he says the illustrations by Nahl are the first he did for a full length book. Includes an original paper label from Epes Ellery, San Francisco's first antiquarian book store, affixed on the front pastedown; plus some old related newspaper clippings laid in. Cowan p. 48-9; Greenwood 378; Kurutz 49. Provenance: From the Library of William Augustus Brewer.