Mountains and Molehills, Or Recollections of A Burnt Journal

A facsimile reprint of the 1885 London edition, complete with colour plate frontispiece, engraved title page, further full page colour illustrations and line drawings in text. Bound in full leather, all edges gilt, satin ribbon marker bound in, marbled endpapers. A handsome volume. Minor tarnishing of text block edges; front free endpaper mildly warped. An Englishman's sportsman-tourist's chronicle of a sojourn in California in the early 1850s: hunting, horse races, bear and bull fights, together with his bemused comments on social life in San Francisco, Stockton, and the gold fields. Chunky 8vo.