Manuscript leatherbound book "Made at request Los Angeles Terminal R'y. Co. by Grove & Wilkinson, Searchers of records - Vol. 4. Premption Claims," with alternate title on spine: "Abstract of title to salt flat inner bay & rattlesnake island & dead man's island, vol. 4 . . . no. 211," 328 pp, with loose pages at back endpaper. Manuscript transcriptions of surveys, deeds, and court records re land titles in Southern California [terminal?] area, "from Superior Court of the County of Los Angeles" and other public records locations--items transcribed mostly deal with inner San Pedro Bay, and include documents re Phineas Banning, William Banning, Merick Reynolds, correspondence of surveyors and court cases; aquatinted maps bound in at pp. 3, 43, 105, 113, 135, 145, 273, 281, 285.