Incidents of a Voyage to California, 1849. A Diary of Travel Aboard the Bark Hersilia, and in Sacramento, 1850.

Los Angeles: The Western History Association, 1987 Book. Fine. Hardcover. First edition. Although not indicated, one of 1,554 copies. Introduction by the editor. Foreword by Martin Ridge. 44pp. Three full-page plates, notes. Light blue cloth. A very fine copy. The Bark Hersilia left New York harbor on January 22, 1849 and arrived in San Francisco August 9, 1849. "The diary concludes with the writer in Sacramento City. He witnessed the flood of January 9, 1850, and the Squatter Riots. Editor Stevens attributed the authorship of the journal to an Alexander Van Valen and, in his introduction, provided a discussion of how he arrived at this conclusion. The text is fully supported by the editor's notes" (Kurutz). Produced as a keepsake for the 1987 conference of the Western History Association. Includes a list of officers and passengers on board the Bark Hersilia. [Clark and Brunet I: 243; Kurutz: 602]..