(CALIFORNIA.) Cadwalader Ringgold. A Series of Charts, with Sailing Directions, Embracing Surveys of . . . California. 5 [of 6] maps, 11 tinted lithograph plates. 44 pages. 4to, original gilt pictorial cloth, moderate wear to backstrip; top 1¾ inches of title page filled with a few letters in title grazed, moderate foxing and toning, a few leaves coming loose, lacking the "Chart of the Sacramento River" but the other maps quite clean and fresh. Washington: John T. Towers, 1851
First quarto issue of a navigation guide to the waters from San Francisco Bay up to Sacramento, with lithographs by W.H. Dougal. Cowan 1933, pages 533-534n; Peters, California on Stone, pages 112-113 ("the views are attractive and well-drawn"); Streeter sale, V:2679 ("a picture of how the country from the Golden Gate to Sacramento looked in 1850"; best issue). None of this first edition traced at auction since 2010.
