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Streeter remarks that "the charts, which include much of the shore and give many place names, together with the views give a picture of how the country from the Golden Gate to Sacramento appeared in 1850, which is of great interest...." The collation of this copy varies from that more commonly seen of the 12 views being on 8 plates, as in Kurutz 536c. This variation is not recorded in the main citation by Kurutz, nor by Howes (though in the notes at the end of his citation, Kurutz writes "The Norris catalog records an 1851 copy with six folding maps and eleven tinted plates"; this is the Norris copy, with his bookplate). Our copy does match the collation of the Streeter copy, which he calls the "first quarto issue," and notes that the plates "of the 1851 edition are certainly preferable to those in the 1852 edition. This is especially the case with the plates in what I call the first issue." Cowan p.533; Howes R303; Kurutz 536; Streeter 2679. Rubberstamp of Thos. Tennant, Mathematical & Nautical Instruments, San Francisco, to front free endpaper; small ticket of bookseller Fred. M. DeWitt, Oakland, to bottom right of front pastedown; bookplate of Thomas Wayne Norris.