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Title: Life in California: During a Residence of Several Years in That Territory...Translated from the Original Spanish Manuscript Author: [Robinson, Alfred] Place: New York Publisher: Wiley & Putnam Date: 1846 Description: xii, [2], 341 pp. Illustrated with 9 lithographed plates. (12mo), period cloth, re-backed. First Edition. This is the first book in English on California to be written by a resident of the province. Zamorano maintains the book is "unquestioned as an authority, his work is undoubtedly the most important book for the period it treats... Robinson originally intended his Life in California to be a preface for Fray Boscana's Chinigchinich [the appended historical account of the Indians of Alta-California], but in the end the 'tail wagged the dog' and for historians the Life in California is vastly more important." Cowan p.536-7; Graff 3525; Howes R363; Sabin 72048; Zamorano Eighty 65. Lot Amendments Condition: Rubbed extremities; hinges cracked, name in ink on front pastedown; foxed; else very good. Item number: 223359