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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. 10x6½, buckram-backed light blue paper over boards, paper spine label, jacket with paper spine label. No. 38 of 250 hand-numbered copies. Signed by the publisher, Thomas C. Russell, on the limitation page. Fine printing of the California-related portions of George Simpson's two-volume An Overland Journey Around the World, London, 1847. Howes S495. Bookplate of Roger K. Larson on the front pastedown. Lot Amendments Condition: Mild fading to jacket spine and extremities, slight dampstaining to upper jacket edges; faint wear to volume, else fine in a very good or better jacket. Item number: 161238