218 pp. Illustrated with portraits, plates, etc. (8vo) original limp cloth, remnants of paper label on spine. First Edition.

Important early history of San Diego with portraits and biographies of such men as Alonzo Horton, E.W. Morse, Thomas Whaley, George Hazzard, John S. Harbison, Judge M.A. Luce, and many others. Chapters on fruit and vine culture in San Diego, climate, Jesse Shepard's Villa Montezuma, Out-of-door amusements, rise of San Diego city, "the interior", and all importantly, water. The plates mostly depict rural views in El Cajon, Escondido, Sweet Water Valley, also olive orchard at San Diego Mission. Rocq 7306; Norris 3417.