Tale of Two Oceans; A 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: E.I. Barra, 1893. Cloth. Near fine. [ADVENTURE]. Eastman & Co. Press, printers. 8vo; 198pp; rebound in navy cloth over board with gilt lettering over the publisher's original stiff tan wrapper; wrapper printed in navy with an engraved vignette of a three-masted ship at anchor surrounded by mountains on the front; pictorial title page; 2 full-page engraved illustrations and several small engraved illustrations in text; light creasing to front wrapper, small chip to corner of rear wrapper; near fine. The author's account of his seafaring journey from Philadelphia to San Francisco as was recorded in his log or sea diary, and written in book form during his retirement. Included are two lovely full-page wood engravings, one titled "Neptune boarding the ship," and the other showing a waterspout on the high seas titled from Psalm 42, verse 7, "Deep calleth unto deep at the voice of thy water-spouts.".