[4], 822 pp. Illus. with photo plates & portraits; (4to) 29x22 cm. (11¼x8¼") original full embossed morocco with gilt pictorial front cover lettered "Pen Pictures from the Garden of the World," spine gilt, decorative endpapers, all edges gilt. First Edition.

Scarce history of 3 Central Valley counties, none of which were among the 27 original California counties named in 1850. Fresno County was created in 1856 from portions of Mariposa, Merced and Tulare Counties; Kern was organized in 1866 from portions of Los Angeles and Tulare Counties; Tulare was created in 1852 from portions of Mariposa and Los Angeles Counties. Cowan p. 848; Rocq 1839