12mo (140 x 89 mm). Contemporary half calf, marbled boards (rebacked, preserving original spine and endpapers); morocco-backed slipcase. Provenance: John Howell, San Francisco (booksellers' ticket); Hon. Edward Towse (1905-1973), justice of the Territorial Supreme Court of Hawaii (bookplate).

FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING with dotted “i” on copyright page and unbroken type in headline on p.9. "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 extraordinary 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 Eighty). BAL 4434; Graff 998; Howes D49; Zamorano Eighty, 26.