8vo. 2 maps (1 folding), 6 additional steel-engraved plates (including frontispiece), and numerous in-text wood engravings. (Title page toned.) Original publisher's brown morocco gilt, smooth spine gilt in 2 compartments, edges gilt (minor rubbing to extremities). 

FIRST EDITION of this narrative history of San Francisco compiled from contemporary newspapers and accounts of pioneer citizens. The work not only gives an extensive history of San Francisco but also "supplies much information on mining and its impact on this instant city" (Kurutz, The California Gold Rush, p. 594). Hanna Libros Californianos, pp. 66-67; Howes S-769; Sabin 87268; Zamorano 80, 70.