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Hardcover. Zustand: Poor. No Jacket. 464 p. illus. 23 cm. ; LC: G440; Dewey: 910.41; decorative green and red embossed cloth boards ; no dustjacket ; "I decided, in my journeyings, frequently to turn aside from the usual route pursued by the globe-trotter: to rough it while studying the customs and characteristics of natives far from the treaty ports: systematically to record my impressions and the results of my study, on the ground, day by day, while they were fresh in my mind: to illustrate these strange scenes and interesting studies both by the pen and the photographic art." ; Contents: Across a continent and an ocean -- Land of the sunrise -- The interior of Japan -- The land of the pig-tail -- Strangest of strange cities -- Language and literature in the Middle Kingdom -- In the Malay archipelago -- The spicy breezes of Ceylon -- First impressions of India -- In the Himalayas -- The wonders of interior India -- The Queen of the East and Indian mosaics -- Farewell to India, greeting to Egypt -- The historic Nile and the excavator's pick-axe -- The Great Pyramids and the ancient Egyptians -- Pilgrims in Palestine, the Holy City -- Peopls and places of the South and North -- By saddle and tent -- The eye of the East -- In Asia Minor -- A reign of terror (Armenia) -- Amidst the classic ruins of Greece -- A gem of the seas -- The city of the Caesars -- Genoa and Gibraltar ; a photograph on nearly every page, many of local peoples, street scenes and home life, many fine photographic portraits of women, and a few images showing horrific scenes of prisoners, beheadings, executions etc ; text sometimes includes some very interesting, rarely seen things, such as a seven-stanza poem entirely in Chinese pidgin English (!) ; very worn covers ; book signatures all nearly loose, but present ; scarce, but in very POOR condition. Book.

Sacramento: James Allen, 1856. (illustrator). First Edition. Sacramento: James Allen, 1856. Rare Spanish-Language Printing of the 1856 California Session Laws, OCLC Locates 4 Copies in Law Libraries [California]. Eldredge, Thomas R., Translator. Leyes de California Aprobadas en la Septima Sesion de la Legislatura que Comenzo en la Ciudad de Sacramento el dia Siete de Enero, En el Ano de Mil Ocho Cientos Cincuenta y Seis, Y Concluyo el Dia Veinte y Ano de Abril del Mismo Ano. Traducidas del Ingles por Thomas R. Eldredge, Traductor del Estado. Sacramento: Impresas por James Allen, Impresor del Estado, 1856. 158 pp. Octavo (8-3/4" x 5-1/2"; 22.22 x 13.97 cm). Contemporary sheep, blind fillets to boards, red and white lettering pieces to spine. Light rubbing and a few minor nicks and scuffs to boards, fading to head of front board, moderate rubbing to extremities, joints starting at ends, twentieth-century bookplate (with blank name space) to front pastedown. Light toning to interior, light foxing in places, offsetting to margins of endleaves. A very good copy. $500. * First printing. Spanish-language edition of laws passed at the seventh legislative session. Early California statutes were issued in English and Spanish, as required by a provision in the state constitution. When it was drafted, in 1849, Spanish was the native language of around 13,000 of California's nearly 100,000 residents, many of them recent arrivals due to the gold rush (1848-1855). Several statutes concern the incorporation of settlements. There are a few statutes reflecting the gold rush; one of these was an act regulating the activities of miners from foreign countries. Reflecting the growth of the state, there are also several acts establishing state and local officials. OCLC locates 14 copies, 4 in law libraries (University of Michigan, University of Minnesota, Washington State Law Library, Yale). Babbitt, Hand-List of Legislative Sessions and Session Laws 22.