California Text-Book:. Containing a grammar of the Spanish language in English; of the English in Spanish conversational dialogues in both languages, and a full description of California. Drawn chiefly from the grammar of Don Jose de Urcullu and the United States Surveys.
San Francisco: Marvin & Hitchcock, 1852. First edition of the earliest school book published in California. Twelvemo. [2], [v]-viii, 258 pp. Publisher's quarter blind-tooled red roan over vertically-ribbed brown-purple cloth with gilt spine lettering. Spine bumped and chipped with small ink smudge. Light scattered foxing throughout (mostly on first and.....