Accepted first issue with dot over the "i" in the word "in" on copyright page, unbroken running head on page 9. The present copy has been rebound in plain contemporary sheep, with the old label of D.M. Lee, M.D., on the front pastedown. "If not the most widely read book on California, certainly this ranks extremely high on such a list. The author sailed up and down the California coast, trading for hides, from January 1835, until May 1836. He possessed not only extraordinarily keen powers of observation but a fine facility for expressing his ideas in writing, which makes this volume an excellent and very readable record of his experiences" - Zamorano. BAL 4434; Cowan p.156; Graff 998; Howes D49; Zamorano Eighty 26.