2 vols., texts in Spanish and English: Reglamento Para el Gobierno de la Provincia de Californias, Aprobado por S.M. en Real Orden de 24 Octobre de 1781. * Regulations for Governing the Province of the Californias approved by His Majesty by Royal Order, dated October 24, 1781. Translated by John Everett Johnson. Each 9½x6¼, leather-backed cloth, gilt-lettered spines. One of 300 copies.
Fine printing of the 1784 Reglamento, along with the its first translation into English. The Reglamento gathered for the first time the various laws governing California, and remained in force until the American occupation. Howes R60; Zamorano Eighty 62.