A Sketch of the Settlement and Exploration of Lower California
San Francisco: H.H.Bancroft and Company, 1869.
Hardcover. Good. 8vo, 200 pp, in original brown pebbled cloth with title stamped in gilt on front board. Ex-library, with call number on spine, lacking front free endpaper. Binding sound, text clean. A scarce edition of this compilation, which was also published in the same year by Appleton as the second part of Browne's "Resources of the Pacific Slope." Includes: Taylor's Historical Summary of Lower California, from its Discovery in 1532 to 1867; Scammon's Exploration of Lower California; Journal of the Expedition of Mr. J.D. Hawks and Party, Through the Interior of the Peninsula of Lower California, from San Domingo to San Diego; Report of Dr. John A. Veatch on Cerros or Cedros Island; Extracts from a History of Old or Lower California by Padre Francisco Javier Clavijero; Washington Territory Historical Memoir (unattributed); and Historical Sketch of Nevada, Including Boundaries, Population, Aboriginal Inhabitants, Early Settlements, &c. (unattributed). Cowan p. 79.
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