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...

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.

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...

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 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...

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...

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...

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...

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.

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...

Chico. [ 1914]. 91pp. with illustrations. Illus. 12mo. Printed wrappers. Contents browned as usual. A near fine copy of a fragile book. These sketches of the author's early life in the West and California, including his account of his 1839 overland journey as a prospective settler, were originally published in...