835 pp. Engraved portrait plates, including frontispiece. 28.7x22.5 cm. (11¼x9"), re-backed full morocco, decoratively embossed covers, gilt-lettered spine, gilt cover vignette, all edges gilt. 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. Adams, Six-Guns 1364; Rocq 2650.