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[2], 7-594 pp. Wood-engraved plates; double frontispiece portraits. (8vo) 23x14 cm (9x5½") publisher's full black morocco, stamped and lettered in gilt, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. First Edition.

Presentation inscription from the author on the front flyleaf to John H. Lick. "A clear and detailed account of a trip to California via Cape Horn in 1849, with return via Panama in 1850. The author was one of the original proprietors of the Sacramento Transcript, and the volume contains much of interest on early California newspapers and the Sacramento squatter riots of 1850" - Zamorano Eighty. Kurutz calls the book an "important reminiscence," and notes that it was sold by subscription in an edition of 600 copies. While not an altogether uncommon book, of the dozen copies we have offered over the last decade this is the second copy we have encountered in this deluxe morocco binding. Cowan p.652; Howes U23; Kurutz 647; Wheat Gold Rush 215; Zamorano Eighty 76.