[ii], (417)-457 pp. Steel-engraved portrait. (8vo) original black cloth lettered in gilt. First Separate Edition.

Rare separate off-print from Bancroft's "Chronicles of the Builders of the Commonwealth". Sawyer, after a brief period in the mines, established his law practice in Sacramento and later Nevada City. He would later serve as City Attorney of San Francisco and ultimately as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of California.