California
Subtitle: a history of Upper and Lower California
By: by Alexander Forbes; with an introduction by Herbert Ingram Priestley ...
Publisher: Printed by J.H. Nash
Published: 1937
Place of publication: San Francisco
Language: eng
Number of pages: 229
Subjects: Missions -- California.; Indians of North America -- Missions.; Steam-navigation -- Pacific Ocean.; California -- History.; Baja California (Mexico) -- History.
Notes: Title within ornamental border.
Includes reproduction of title-page of the original edition, London, 1839.
"Six hundred and fifty copies of this book have been printed."
Table of contents: title: Dedication to Dr. John Forbes.; title: Introduction, by H.I. Priestley.; title: Preface, by Dr. John Forbes.; title: California.; title: pt. I. Lower California.; title: pt. II. Upper California.; title: Appendix: I. Remarks on the harbours of California, by Capt. John Hall.; title: II. On steam navigation in the Pacific. 1. Remarks by a former resident. 2. Panama and the Pacific, by P.C. Scarlett. 3. Extracts from "Statements and documents relative to the establishment of steam navigation in the Pacific," by William Wheelwright. 4. Extract from the Prospectus of the "Pacific steam navigation company," to be incorporated by royal charter, 1838.; title: Bibliography (p. 221)