Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition. HB, 8vo, 359p, Near fine beige cloth hardcover with blue decorations and lettering, mark-free, no dj, scarce.
Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition. HB, 8vo, 368p, Near fine beige cloth hardcover with red decorations and lettering, mark-free, no dj, scarce.
Published by Published by the author, San Francisco, 1877
Seller: Carpe Diem Fine Books, ABAA, Monterey, CA, U.S.A.
First Edition
First Edition. 12mo. 192 pp. 9 woodcut plates (including frontispiece; 1 fold-out plate, lacking the left fold; fold-out map of The Laguna [Pond] of Dolores. Green cloth with gilt decoration & lettering. Wear to extremities; small snag to spine; else a very good copy of a scarce and early title on the California Missions; only two copies located in online institutions. "An attempt to record the founation of civilization in California on the centenary of Catholicity in San Francisco." - Weber 469.