[San Rafael, Napa, and other locations in San Francisco Bay Area. November 1948 - December 1951]. 192pp. closely written manuscript in ink on ruled paper. Approximately 27,500 words. Beige cloth ruled-paper notebook. Minor wear to extremities of binding. Very good. A detailed fishing journal, kept by the noted writer and.....
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[Los Angeles. 1969]. iv,36pp. Quarto. Original pictorial wrappers. Minimal edge wear, minor occasional toning. Near fine. A rare business directory intended for use by the African-American community of Los Angeles at the end of the turbulent 1960s. It follows the first issue published for the summer of 1969, and appears.....
London. 1812-1815. Five volumes. [2],xl,[16],574; [4],597; [4],512; [4],636; [4],462,[2],105pp. Modern black cloth, spines gilt. Front hinges of several volumes cracking, shelf numbers in white ink on spine, institutional stamps and markings on titlepages, top edges, and rear pastedowns. Light tanning and scattered foxing. Good plus. First English translation, after the.....
Mexico City. 1856. 480,[4]pp. Several errors in pagination. Small quarto. Contemporary red half sheep and boards, spine gilt. Boards and extremities rubbed. Contemporary bookplate on front pastedown. Light toning and minor foxing. Very good. An extremely valuable compilation which gives detailed data, including route, scenery, and other key information, about.....
New York. 1877. 221pp. Folding map. Original pictorial cloth. A fine copy. A presentation copy, inscribed: "...with the compliments of the author." Describes with gusto the mineral wealth of the Southwest.
Oakland: Thompson & West, 1881. 680pp. plus 116 lithographic plates (five of them double-page). Most portrait plates with an accompanying unnumbered leaf of text, or with biographical text on the plate. Text printed in double columns. Small, thick folio. Modern buckram, spine gilt, leather label, a.e.g. Very clean internally. Near.....
San Francisco: A.L. Bancroft and Company, 1878. 304,[6]pp. Modern library buckram. Very clean internally. Very good. From an edition of 500 copies. Includes sketches of the libraries of Hubert Howe Bancroft, the Society of California Pioneers, the University of California, Leland Stanford, J. Ross Browne, Charles and M.H. DeYoung, Bishop.....
[Washington. 1838]. 438pp. Modern cloth, gilt leather label. Fine. A scarce government report regarding one of the events that became a cause celebre during the undeclared, bloodless "Aroostook War" along the Maine boundary with Canada. Specifically, this collection was prompted by the arrest by British authorities in New Brunswick of.....
New York: George R. Lockwood (late Roe Lockwood & Son), [1870]. Three volumes. 155 hand-finished color lithographed plates by J.T. Bowen (and others) from drawings on stone by W.E. Hitchcock and R. Trembley, after J.A. and J.W. Audubon (plate LXIV creased). Half titles. Royal octavo. Handomely bound in publisher's blindstamped.....
Cincinnati: G.W. Lasher, 1880. 400pp. Original maroon cloth, gilt. Cloth sunned, especially on spine. Worn at spine ends and corners. One leaf with a long, closed tear, else quite clean internally. About very good. Babb was a Presbyterian clergyman who published some 400 letters in the JOURNAL AND MESSENGER in.....
Mannheim: Churfurstl. Hof-und Academie-Buchdruckerey, 1772. [16],358,[1]pp. plus two engraved plates (on one sheet) and folding map. Small octavo. Modern half vellum and marbled boards, spine gilt. A bit of light age toning and an occasional light fox mark. Three small purple ink spots in lower portion of map. Near fine.....
Mannheim: Churfurstl. Hof-und Academie-Buchdruckerey, 1773. [16],358pp. plus two engraved plates and folding map. Contemporary patterned paper boards, expertly rebacked and recornered to style, preserving original leather label. Internally clean. Very good plus. Second issue, with some corrections, after the first printing of the previous year, of this rare account of.....
Mannheim: Churfurstl. Hof-und Academie-Buchdruckerey, 1773. [16],358pp. plus two engraved plates and folding map. Contemporary black half calf and marbled boards, spine gilt. Extremities lightly worn, small paper label at foot of spine. Small ink stamp on titlepage and verso of map. Minor scattered foxing. Very good. Second issue with some.....
Magdalena Bay, Lower California. November 10, 1870. [4]pp. on a folded folio sheet, including a map on the final page. Small tape repair in foredge of first leaf. A bit of offsetting from the masthead and the map. Near fine. In a half morocco and cloth folding case, spine gilt.....
Boston. 1895. 38pp. Engraved portrait plus full-sheet woodcuts and in- text illustrations. Original gilt cloth. Some light foxing. Overall, just about very good. A presentation copy, with an ink stamp completed and inscribed by the author: "Hon. Robert Coit / With Compliments of / Nicholas Ball...May 20th 1895." This book.....
[San Francisco]. 1888. 4;45pp. Dbd. Good. Washington A. Bartlett, a former governor of California, was dropped unceremoniously from the Navy amidst a veritable flurry of accusations in 1855. He appealed for restoration years later (since he was out of the country at the time of discharge), systematically proving each charge.....
New York: Burr Printing House, 1887. viii,167pp. Original green publisher's cloth, stamped in gilt on front cover. Modern bookplate on front pastedown. Front inner hinge starting. Internally clean. Very good. Printed for private distribution. With descriptions of various locales in Mexico, as well as scenes from California, including San Francisco's.....
Nevada, Ca. Printed at the Daily Gazette Book and Job Office, 1867. vi,[6],424pp. With the advertisement leaf, not found in all copies, inserted between pp.184 and 185. This copy does not contain the small advertisement after p. vi, which, according to Quebedeaux, does not appear in all copies. Contemporary printed.....
Montréal: Granger Frères, 1890. 323,[1]pp. plus several illustrations and folding map. Later blue cloth, gilt-stamped cover. Bookplate on front pastedown, front free endpaper and titlepage detached. Moderate uniform browning, paper slightly brittle. Overall, still very good. The narrative of a six-month tour of the Rockies. Most notable for its extensive.....
Denver. 1969. [6],25pp. plus ninety-four maps, each accompanied by an unnumbered leaf of text. Quarto. Cloth. Fine, in a slightly soiled, otherwise near fine dust jacket. "[Christy] crossed the Sierra via Kit Carson Pass to Weaverville, Mud Springs, and reached the Sacramento Embarcadero on August 10, 1850, 105 days from.....
San Francisco: Grabhorn-Hoyem, 1969. 143pp. Sixty-five colored maps. Large oblong folio. Suede backed cloth. Some very slight sunning to spine and boards, one corner heavily worn. Modern bookplate on front pastedown. Very good. "The book depicts contemporary maps of ranchos from the Mexican period. A beautiful book, designed by the.....
New York. 1930. 336pp. plus plates. Portrait. Cloth and boards, printed paper labels. About fine. Based on unpublished material left by Bell after his death, including notes on Murrieta and other California outlaws.
Los Angeles. 1881. 457pp. Original gilt pictorial cloth, expertly rebacked with original backstrip laid down. Cloth heavily rubbed and worn. Internally clean. Overall, a solid, just about a good copy. "The most readable historical narrative of early Southern California" - Howes. Bell includes accounts of his service with Walker in.....
Sacramento. 1853. 261pp. Plates. Original cloth. Extremities frayed, boards detached. The plates are some of the earliest works of Charles Nahl and illustrate California life in the early Gold Rush. Benton founded the Congregational Church in California in 1849, and this moralistic/religious allegory includes many details of California life at.....
[Various places in Alaska, California, and Maine, as described below. ca. 1917-1959]. 133 items, including sixty-nine photographs ranging in size from 3 1/4 x 2 1/4 to 8 x 10 inches, thirty-eight negatives, one patent, five pieces of correspondence (two with envelopes), sixteen pieces of ephemera, and four newspaper clippings.....
