California from the Conquest, 1886

Royce, Josiah. American Commonwealths. California from the Conquest in 1846 to the Second Vigilance Committee in San Francisco: A Study of American Character

Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1886. First edition. [vii]-xv, 513 pages, [blank], and six leaves of ads.Folding map of California opposite the title page.

An early and popular history of California. Zamorano 80, no. 66. Howes R487. Cowan, Bibliography of the History of California, page 545: "One of the best authorities upon the events of that decade."

Original olive-green pebbled cloth with gilt titles; top edge gilt. Very good, with light edgewear and a bit of loss at the base of the spine. (#E626) 

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