THE CALIFORNIA DIARY.

1948, 4to, xiv, 261pp, index, illustrated. Light wear, else VG. First California Edition, limited to 1000cc. Number 16 in the California Centennial Editions. Colton was the first alcalde of Monterey under American control and one of the founders of the first American newspaper in California. His earlier book - DECK AND PORT; OR, INCIDENTS OF A CRUISE IN THE UNITED STATES FRIGATE CONGRESS - was an interesting narrative of a voyage from Norfolk, Virginia in October of 1845, to the Sandwich Islands (Hawaii) and ending at California about nine months later. He then wrote THREE YEARS IN CALIFORNIA, 1850, (see Zamorano 80 and Howes 625)) of which this book is a reissue, relating his experiences in that state.