The Journal of Madame Giovanni (International Collectors Library)

[viii], 404 pp. Maroon leatherette boards, gilt titles and decorations, top edge gilt, ribbon marker bound in, decorated endpapers. Translated from the French edition of 1856 by Marguerite E. Wilbur. The story of a beautiful Frenchwoman in the 1850s, and her travels to New Zealand, Tahiti, San Francisco (then still an Old West town), Hawaii, and Mexico.