CIPRIANI, Leonetto. California and Overland Diaries of Count Leonetto Cipriani, from 1853 through 1871
Item #0927
148 p.; 8vo; red cloth, without d.j., as issued. Portland, OR: Champoeg Press, 1962. Limited to 750 copies. Translated and edited by Ernest Falbo. Containing the account of his cattle drive from Missouri to California in 1853; a visit with Brigham Young in the Mormon settlement of Salt Lake City; the assembling of his elegant prefabricated home in Belmont, the first of consequence on the San Francisco peninsula, later to become The Ralston Mansion. Designed and printed by Lawton Kennedy. Spine lightly sunned; otherwise near fine. |
