The Irvine Ranch of Orange County

San Marino, CA: Huntington Library, 1952. Second Edition. Octavo with brown cloth boards and gilt stamping in tan jacket; 167 pages: illustrations; 24 cm Very good jacket with sunning to spine, now in archival mylar; a very good (+) copy with ex libris sticker on front free endpaper, else unmarked, clean and tight. Hardcover.

History of the 120,000 acre Irvine Ranch in Southern California, from its beginning as Spanish and Mexican land grants. James Irvine, Sr., merged the Rancho Lomas de Santiago, Rancho San Joaquin, and Rancho Santiago de Santa Ana. Portions have become cities and other developments. "The Irving Ranch of Orange County is one of the few large land-holdings of Southern California that have survived the vicissitudes and revolutionary changes of the passing generations. The randch owed its origin to the old land-grant system of the Spanish-Mexican regime. It has now been in the possession of a single family for over eighty years and thus enjoys a continuity of ownership rare indeed in this particular portion of the state. It still retains substantially the area and boundaries establihed by its founder." --Foreword.//California, Irvine Ranch, California Orange County, Calif, Manners and customs, Orange County (Calif.) Description and travel, Orange County (Calif.) Social life and customs, Ranch life, Travel, Vie au ranch