The Mediterranean Shores of America. Southern California: Its Climatic, Physical, and Meterological Conditions
Philadelphia: F.A. Davis, 1892.
First Edition. Softcover. Very good. 5.75" x 9", pp xiv, 160, with two colored folding plates (one map, one chart) and many additional b/w plates and illustrations in the text. Original wrappers, with considerable restoration to the edges and a new spine. Contents clean and sound. Very good. Remondino (1846-1926) was a San Diego physician known for his writings promoting the region's healthful climate. Having himself been cured in San Diego of a bad case of malaria contracted during the Civil War, he became convinced that "climate determines the diet, occupation, the diseases of which we shall suffer and die, as well as the average length of our existence; it determines our temper, faculties, and facilities for acquiring knowledge and the arts." In this book he details the specific qualities of the southern California climate and their relation to health, explaining why "all residents concur in pronouncing it more favorable to physical and mental activity than any they have known." Rocq 16360; Cowan p. 529, Zamorano Select #93.
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