First edition of a rare work on the Gulf of California. The author collected the material for this narrative during his business ventures in the New World. Sailing in the privately owned Félicie between the Mexican ports Guaymas, Acapulco, Mazatlan and Veracruz, he visited Valparaiso in Chile, the La Paz-Loreto area and the Bay of California. The account is rich in detail about the products, geography, and geology of Sonora. The map was drawn by Victor Adolph Malte-Brun, an acclaimed French cartographer and geographer, who also published in the journal Nouvelles annales des voyages (May, 1863).
The work is lightly foxed. Otherwise a fine, untrimmed copy. Barrett 555; Howell, California II, 390; Hill 348; Monaghan 461; Sabin 14925.