Royce, Josiah. CALIFORNIA FROM THE CONQUEST IN 1846 TO THE SECOND VIGILANCE COMMITTEE IN SAN FRANCISCO. A STUDY OF AMERICAN CHARACTER... Boston & New York: Houghton, Mifflin & Co., (1903 or later). 12mo, original red cloth, lettered and decorated in gilt; top page edges gilt. Folding color frontispiece map; (2), xv, (1), 513, (3) pages. Spine sunned. Very good or better. A later printing of the 1886 original, and part of the “American Commonwealths” series, this well-regarded historical volume, the work of an esteemed Harvard philosophy professor, reads the history of California in terms of the development of the country itself. Cowan, Bibliography of the History of California: “This is one of the best authorities upon the events of that decade.” Wheat, Books of the Gold Rush, #171. Number 66 on the Zamorano 80: “He made use of much source material in the form of both official and private documents and also talked to men who were part of the events he described. His purpose was to show the development of the national character in California in its first ten years of American occupation, and to convey to his readers ‘the process whereby a new and great community first came to a true consciousness of itself.’” Ex William Sewall Wells Library, with his bookplate; ex Kolbe & Fanning’s 2021 Gold Rush List, item 27; ex Cole Hendrickson Library—proceeds from this volume will be donated to the Numismatic Bibliomania Society.