1861 SAN FRANCISCO. The Pacific Expositor. Rare California Civil War Imprint - Mormonism - Education &c

A very scarce imprint with excellent content in various domains, i.e. religious and theological with excellent and otherwise unpublished content from various Presbyterian divines; California, including urgent needs for education as it had been built essentially as a massive gold boomtown and now had to cope with zero infrastructure - the status of cities and morality in California, etc.; Mormonism and polygamy in the West; and of course this volume was written in real time as the Civil War began. 

No copies on the market at the time of cataloging. 

[California, Civil War]. Scott, W. A. [ed.] The Pacific Expositor. July 1860 through June 1861. San Francisco. George W. Stevens. 1861. 554pp.

Exceptional quality California related advertisements at the rear of each issue. 

Contents include: Reconciliation and Peace by the Cross by W. A. Scott | Patriarchal Polygamy by W. E. Boardman [ Mormonism - Latter Day Saints - Native Americans ] | Hotel Life | The Travelling Christians Comfort [Westward Expansion] | The Institution for the Deaf and Dumb and the Blind  [California] | Preaching Politics | The San Francisco Sunday School Union | Things in California | A Glance at the Great Metropolis | The Saints Possessing the Kingdom by Rev. S. Woodbridge of Benicia | The Treason of General Charles Lee | The Education we want in California [Extensive] | Dr. Asahel Nettleton on Jude 5.9 | A Narrative of the State of Religion | The Piety and Patriotism of Praying for Our Rulers | The Presbytery of California | Settling a New Country | Charles Darwin Refuted [Very Early] | Meroe and its Queens by J. A. Boardman of Los Angeles | Narrative of the State of Religion within the Bounds of the Synod of the Pacific | Our City at Present [ San Francisco ] | Home Schools in California | Hunting for the Lost Tribes of Israel | The Theatre and Unmitigated Evil | The Sword of the Spirit | Sectional Bigotry | The College of California [Oakland] | Education in California | Condemned Criminals | Chaplains in the Legislature | A Prayer for the Times [ Lengthy, March 1861] | Natural and Apostolic Intolerance | The Female Seminary of San Francisco | California for Investments - A Word to Our Eastern Brethren | Scripture Expositions by George Burrowes | An Efficient Minister by Rev. A. Scott of Arcata, CA | The Necessity of a Stringent Reform in the Training of Youth in California | The Horrors of Civil War [May 1861] | Attacks Upon the Expositor | Dr. Scott's Prayer for the Present Crisis | etc., 

Original half leather, the copy of Presbyterian divine, Rev. Thomas Creigh. Some sporadic foxing, heavier at points. Very solid, crisp and clean.