Oakland: Thompson & West, 1880. 234pp., including colored "Map of California, Nevada, Utah, and Arizona" plus eighty-three full-page or double- page lithographs (the first included as part of the pagination). Oblong quarto. Original half sheep and green cloth, stamped in blind and gilt, spine gilt. Hinges reinforced, corners neatly repaired.....

[San Francisco. 1891]. Lithographed map, 19 x 15 1/4 inches. Old folds. Small separations at three crossfolds, with slight loss. Edgewear. Good. Detailed map of waterways owned by the Honey Lake Valley Land and Water Company. Honey Lake is located just inside the California border, between Lassen National Park and.....

San Jose [i.e. New York] (session 1), [New York] (session 2), San Francisco (session 4) & Sacramento (sessions 5-15). 1850-1864. Thirty-nine volumes. Various bindings of contemporary sheep and later cloth, red and black leather labels. Condition ranges from rather rough to very fine, many with contemporary and later ownership inscriptions.....

Los Angeles. [ca. 1901]. 10pp. on a single folded sheet. Brochure, folded into five compartments. Minor soiling and wear. Very good. Attractive promotional brochure for Santa Catalina Island, advertising activities, accommodations, and round trip fares by the Wilmington Transportation Co. The brochure describes the island's pleasant climate and fishing opportunities.....

New York. 1863. 80pp. Contemporary plain wrappers. Spine chipped. A sound copy. In a green cloth case, leather label. Lacks the map, evidently not issued with this copy. A promotional guide for this California mining company, including a description of the resources and gold mining potential of Fremont's famous Mariposa.....

San Francisco: H.S. Crocker & Co., [nd, ca. 1890]. Chromolithographic map, 26 3/4 x 20 3/4 inches. Old folds. Worn along the edges. Long clean split along one fold, but with no loss. A few other shorter closed tears along the edges, but with no loss. A few early pencil.....

[Sacramento]: B.B. Redding, [ 1855]. 8pp. Dbd. Light tanning. Very good. An intriguing document, submitting a proposal entitled, "An Act to Create Three States Out of the Territory of California." The states are to be named California, Colorado, and Shasta. The state of California is to occupy the territory between.....

Washington. July 31, 1848. 14pp. Folio. Stitched as issued. A few minor edge tears. Near fine. In a large red cloth folder, gilt leather label. Slip bill for the 1st Session of the 30th Congress, concerning land claims in the newly acquired territories of California and New Mexico. At the.....

Berlin: J. Hesse, [ca. 1851]. Handcolored lithographic print, 19 1/2 x 14 1/2 inches. Minute browning and edge wear in margins. Color bright and clean. Very good. Archival matting, and protected with mylar sheet. Variant issue, without priority, of this delightful early view of Sacramento, showing the city inland from.....

Los Angeles. 1892. 96 [of 98, which likely include advertisements]pp., plus plates. Lacks the final leaf. Double-page frontispiece map. Original pictorial wrappers. Wrappers lightly worn; faint ink stamp on front wrapper. Internally very clean. Very good. In a half morocco and cloth folding case, spine gilt. Covers all aspects of.....

Brooklyn, N.Y. The Albertype Co., 1901. Titlepage plus nineteen "Albertype" photographic prints (one folding). Oblong 16mo. Original pebbled cloth, stitched. Boards a bit rubbed and shelfworn. Very clean internally. Very good. A nice photographic tour of California's capital city at the turn of the century. Included is a panorama of.....

Tulare, Ca. Tulare Board of Trade, [ca. 1888]. [4]pp., on a single folded sheet. Three horizontal folds. A few small, closed tears in the edges. Very good. An early and rare promotional for Tulare County, California, located just south of Fresno. The county was then - and is still now.....

San Francisco. 1893. 47pp. Illustrated with halftones. Oblong 12mo. Original printed stiff-paper wrappers, string-tied. Some offsetting on the rear wrapper. Near fine. Early promotional guide to Los Angeles and surrounding areas. Includes photographs of the Hollenbeck and other prominent buildings of the day, also photos of the missions, Catalina Island.....