Barra, E[zekiel]. I. - TALE Of TWO OCEANS; New Story by an Old Californian. An Account of a Voyage from Philadelphia to San Francisco, Around Cape Horn, Years 1849 - 50, Calling at Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, and at Juan Fernandez, in the South Pacific

San Francisco: , 1893. 1st edition (Baird & Greenwood 178; Cowan II, p. 35; Graff 193; Kurutz 37). Printed stiff-stock paper wrappers. 198 pp. Illustrated, 2 full page & 5 intra-textual. 8vo. 9" x 5-3/4". Old transparent tape reinforcement to spine paper. Faint discoloration along text-block fore-edge. Modern bookplate. A Very Good copy. An apparently embellished account based on personal reminiscences, by this one time San Francisco "saloon keeper catering to the printing trade.".

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