Illustrated with 2 plates from drawings of Fort Ross, 1 in color, the other duotone; sketch of the Greek Chapel at Fort Ross, & a general view of Fort Ross from Century Magazine, 1890; folding facsimile map laid in loose. 10½x6¾, red buckram, paper cover label, spine lettered in gilt. First Edition.

Articles on the Russian settlement at Fort Ross, Russian sea-otter and seal hunting in California, the Russian withdrawl, and a bibliography relating to the Russians in California. Reprinted from the Quarterly of the California Historical Society, Vol. XII, No. 3, September 1933. Hill, Pacific Voyages, p.558.