XANTUS, Janos. Utazás Kalifornia déli Részeiben Pest: Lauffer És Stolp, 1860 8vo., Illustrated boards featuring the author on a mule in Los Angeles; rebacked in blue cloth; boards lettered in black, with decorative border to upper; pp. [xi], 2-191, [iii, ads]; with a suite of 7 lithographic plates, frontis, and a folding lithographic map to rear; boards dampstained, toned, and rubbed at edges; sporadic minimal dampstaining and spotting throughout, mostly affecting the prelims, with the plates for the most part clean; a very good copy, scarce thus. Provenance: Stamp of Hungarian collector Lajos Pokorny to the ffep. First authorised edition. A beautifully-illustrated early first-hand account of Southern California in the mid 19th century, with chapters on the economy (namely gold), Natural History, and lives of the Native Americans, written by a Hungarian freedom fighter in exile who, during his time serving with the U.S. Army, visited Los Angeles and the Tejon Indian tribes. Baja Califo