Author: Duhaut-Cilly, Auguste [Bernard, 1790 - 1849]. Fruge, August; Harlow, Neal - Translators and Editors
Title: A VOYAGE To CALIFORNIA, the Sandwich Islands & Around the World in the Years 1826 - 1829
Description: San Francisco: The Book Club of California, 1997. 1st Edition Thus, limited to 350 copies designed and printed letterpress by Patrick Raegh. Red quarter cloth with patterned grey-blue paper over boards, white paper spine label. In blank white dust jacket. xxix, [1], 252, [4] pp. B/w illustrations and reproductions of original plates, tipped-in illustrations of Duhaut-Cilly and (in color) his coat of arms. 11" x 8-3/8". Clean and bright, binding tight; minor wear to dust jacket. Fine/ Near Fine. Originally published in two volumes in 1834-35. From the editors' Introduction: "Master of a trading ship, the Héros, Auguste Duhaut-Cilly, or du Haut-Cilly, whom the Californians called Don Augusto because they could not pronounce his name, spent nearly two years, 1827 and 1828, on the coast of California, seeing it from one end of the other before proceeding to the Sandwich Islands, China, and home around the world.".

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