xxii, 639 pp. (8vo), original brown cloth, spine lettered in gilt. Housed in a custom red morocco and cloth drop-back box. First Edition.
"A thoroughly readable account of Pastoral California mainly before the American conquest...Davis came to California by sea in 1831, became a successful merchant and recorded his memories and events in this trustworthy book" (Zamorano). Adams Herd 659; Cowan p.160-61; Graff 1020; Howes D136; Kurutz 170a; Zamorano Eighty 27.