TRAVELS IN SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA by John Xantus. Translated, edited and with an introduction by Theodore Schoenman and Helen Benedek Schoeman. Detroit: Wayne University Press, 1976. First edition thus, first printing. Originally published in the author's native Hungarian language in 1859. Illustrated with eighteen drawings and maps on b w plates. The detailed account of the surveyor's experiences, observed cultures, Native Americans, working people, animals and plant life, and more in the 1850s while traveling through California, Baja California, Mexico, and in a caravan from Los Angeles via the Sierra Nevada to Fort Tejon. Fine and fresh in brown linen with bronze embossed titles to the spine, brown-and-yellow headband and tail-band; in a fine dust jacket; original printed $12.95 price still intact to the front inner flap Octavo; 213 pages; index. PLEASE VIEW OUR STORE FOR MORE GREAT VINTAGE HISTORY BOOKS THANKS! "http://pics.ebay.com/aw/pics/viewitem/viewItemLogo_88x33.gif" border="0" align="top" Created by Seller's Assistant Basic. On Dec-11-03 at 18:03:08 PST, seller added the following information: