Introduction by James D. Hart. Illustrated with 14 plates reproducing original lithographs, paintings, etc. 9½x6¼, original white suede backed boards. One of 1000 copies by Edwin & Robert Grabhorn.

"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. Cowan p.156; Graff 998; Howes D49; Zamorano Eighty 26. (All for the first edition of 1840); GB 257 (this edition).