1 blank leaf; vii-xiv; 433 pp., tissue frontis illus.; coated brown paper for pastedowns and endpapers;, pub. ads and catalog in back; 8vo; pebbled brown cloth; spine lettered in gilt within gilt rule, publisher's device in gilt at foot of spine; 12 illustrations. Ex Pacific Union Club library with their bookplate front pastedown. Spine gilt dulled; nick to cloth at top of spine.

"The first 257 pages relate to California. The author, a medical practitioner, came to California in 1849, and during that year was the city physician of San Francisco. His sketches are rather different from those of many of his fellow-sojourners." [Cowan, 471]