A Journey to California With Observations About the Country, Climate and the Route to this Country ... A Day-by-Day Record of the Journey from May 18, 1841, to November 6, 1841
San Francisco: John Henry Nash, 1937.
Hardcover. Very good. 11.5" x 7.75", pp ix, 48 pages, paper-covered boards with cloth spine. A little fraying to head of spine, touch of soiling to front board; very good or better. Reprint of the extremely rare 1842 edition, which was first published narrative of an overland trip made to California with the intention of settling. Beautifully printed by John Henry Nash with ornaments by Lawrence Haste. Howes B-443.
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