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Illustrated with color collotype plates after drawings, first published in 1822, by the Rurik's artist Louis Choris. 15¾x10, quarter red cloth & orange boards. One of 250 copies printed by the Grabhorn Press.

Prospectus laid in. Choris' drawings first appeared in Voyage Pittoresque Autour du Monde, Paris, 1822. "The visit of the Rurik to San Francisco Bay in the fall of 1816 resulted in one of the most interesting and detailed of all accounts of mission and presidio life in the days when California was a Spanish province..." GB 256; Howes C277; BCC 50.