New York: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, 1872. First Edition. Illustrated with black and white woodcuts, maps. Original cloth over boards. Octavo. 255 pages (plus 4 leaves of ads).

One of the more effective early books promoting the economic and agricultural development of California. Nordhoff devotes the first part of the book to travel routes across the continent, notable sights in California and how to visit them, and other material of interest to travelers and tourists. There is also information on health resorts for invalids.

The remainder of the book focuses on the agricultural and fruit culture possibilities primarily in Southern California, then newly opened by the completion of several railroad lines.

The many woodcut engravings depict everything from views of Yosemite to gold mining to a full page bird's-eye view of the Trans-Continental Railroad Route from Chicago to San Francisco.

Ref. COWAN p. 455.

Bound in brown cloth over boards with gilt-stamped titles to spine and upper board, ornamental borders to both boards and spine stamped in black. Minor extremity rubs and shallow bumps, minor stain along fore edge of upper board, else fine.

Item #2136

Price: $300