[12], 835 pp. Illus. with collotype plates from photographs; numerous photo-engraved portraits. 11¼x8¾, original embossed brown morocco with gilt-dec. front cover lettered "Pen Pictures from the Garden of the World," a.e.g. First Edition.

Detailed history of Los Angeles at the time the "Boom of the Eighties" was turning the land from sleepy cattle country to a burgeoning cluster of orchards, aqueducts and other trappings of civilization. Contains many biographical sketches of pioneers and developers. Rocq 2650.