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Title: Narrative of a Voyage to California Ports in 1841-42, Together with Voyages to Sitka, the Sandwich Islands & Okhotsk; To Which are Added Sketches of Journeys across America, Asia, & Europe: From the Narrative of a Voyage Round the World Author: Simpson, George Place San Francisco Publisher: Thomas C. Russell Date: 1930 Description: xxxii, 232 pp. Illustrated with 2 portraits of the author with tissue-guards; facsimiles of the title pages of the first edition and part of a holograph report (double-page) by Simpson; folding facsimile map. (8vo) tan cloth-backed blue boards, blue dust jacket paper label to jacket and volume spine. No. 38 of 250 copies. Signed by Thomas Russell on the limitation. Fine printing of the California-related portions of George Simpson's "An Overland Journey Around the World", London, 1847. With the bookplate of Roger K. Larson on front pastedown. Howes S495. Lot Amendments Condition: Jacket spine yellowed, some faint dampstain into front panel and flap; fine volume in a very good jacket. Item number: 223337